Archive: Issues
126 Articles
- Arts & Culture
- Biodiversity
- Maya Snyder
- Spring 2022
- What We're Reading
What We’re Reading: Under a White Sky
Common Home editor Maya Snyder reviews Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth. …
March 30, 2022
- Clara Chiu
- Climate & Energy
- Environmental Justice
- Erin LeGoff
- Spring 2022
The Making of Maladaptation
Georgetown alumni, Clara Chiu and Erin LeGoff explain the concept of Maladaption: when climate projects set out to do good, unintentionally make matters. …
March 28, 2022
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Kyle Paoletta
- Spring 2022
- Sustainability
Fallowed Ground
Common Home Correspondent Kyle Paoletta takes us to the southwest where the first concrete test of America's ability to adapt to the climate crisis is underway: the agreement…
February 13, 2022
- Arts & Culture
- Marion Cassidy
- Spring 2022
A Field Trip to Okinawa
"Georgetown Professor Natsu Onoda Power seems to hold the secret to conducting Zoom theater. In her Spring 2021 show “Okinawa Field Trip,” she engaged a virtual audience with…
February 12, 2022
- Jillian Dyszynski
- Spring 2022
- The Breakdown
The Breakdown: Climate Finance
For this issue's "The Breakdown,: Jillian Dyszynski, Director of Market Development at American Forest Foundation, answers five key questions on climate. …
February 12, 2022
- Arts & Culture
- Maya Snyder
- Spring 2022
Pens and Voices Gathered Round
On Earth Day, Georgetown invited journalists, artists, and activists to lead a series of roundtable discussions on topics ranging misinformation in the news to environmental…
February 12, 2022
- Food & Water
- Mark Agard
- Spring 2022
- Sustainability
How Campus Works: Water and Power
Whether the thousands of feet of water pipes under the campus or the solar panel fields that span across the Mid-Atlantic, it takes a lot to maintain the modern amenities of a…
February 10, 2022
- Arts & Culture
- Daniela Fernandez
- Environmental Justice
- Spring 2022
The Future of a Healthier Planet Begins with Us
Guest writer Daniela Fernandez COL '17, Founder and CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance, champions today's youth in the fight against climate change: "Together, we are abundantly…
February 9, 2022
- Biodiversity
- Climate & Energy
- Madeline Babin
- Spring 2022
COP26
For many, COP26 marked the “last best chance” for world leaders to keep the Paris Agreement’s 1.5ºC target afloat. While the conference generated some progress—…
February 9, 2022
- Alannah Nathan
- Biodiversity
- Climate & Energy
- Spring 2022
More than Meets the Eye
Often overlooked, salt marshes serve an essential role in protecting the environment and mitigating climate change. Yet today, roughly half of the world’s salt marshes are at…
February 8, 2022