Archive: Issues
113 Articles
- Climate Change
- Fall 2023
- Marion Cassidy
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
A Futurist’s Vision for Higher Education in a Climate-Altered World
Bryan Alexander, an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown, explores the ways in which climate change will impact university.…
October 6, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Fall 2023
- Madhura Shembekar
- Summer 2023
Extinction Rebellion: Inciting Controversy–and Conversation–Since 2018
Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based, radical environmental group, uses public acts of civil disobedience to spark conversation about the climate.…
September 21, 2023
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Fall 2023
- Madhura Shembekar
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
Building a Better Future: Urbanism and Conflict in Environmentalism
Dr. Silvia Danielak, urbanist and peace scholar, and Common Home Editor Madhura Shembekar discuss the role infrastructure plays in peacekeeping and the.…
September 13, 2023
- Arts & Culture
- Elyza Bruce
- Fall 2023
- Summer 2023
- What We're Reading
What We’re Reading: “Meltwater” by Claire Wahmanholm
In the poetry collection “Meltwater,” Claire Wahmanholm poignantly articulates the grief, anxiety, and uncanniness of ecological disaster and explores what it means to raise…
September 11, 2023
- Arts & Culture
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Fall 2023
- Summer 2023
Nature, Crisis, Consequence: Using the Past to Rethink Environmental Change
Common Home editor Cecilia Cassidy reviews an innovative art exhibit by the New York Historical.…
September 9, 2023
- Alexandra Pyne
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Fall 2023
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
One Industry, Many Ideologies: Exploring Sustainable Finance
2022 Stapleton Fellow at Georgetown University, Alexandra Pyne examines the role of the finance industry in addressing the climate. …
September 5, 2023
- Environmental Justice
- Fall 2023
- Food & Water
- Summer 2023
- Yuki Kato
Urban Cultivation Matters
Urban farms provide a variety of social benefits to the communities that tend them by challenging capitalistic systems of social inequity. However, growers face a host of…
September 1, 2023
- Editor Letters
- Fall 2023
- Issues
- Summer 2023
Editor Letter, Fall 2023
We’re pleased to present to you the sixth issue of Common Home, Georgetown University’s online and print magazine on environmental news and analysis from the Earth Commons…
September 1, 2023
- Elyza Bruce
- Environmental Health
- Fall 2023
- Food & Water
- Summer 2023
The ripple effects of Sackett v. EPA
The Supreme Court of the United States passed a ruling this past May that will significantly limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to protect streams and wetlands…
August 30, 2023
- Arts & Culture
- Elyza Bruce
- Fall 2023
- Rebecca Rutstein
- Summer 2023
The synergy between the arts and the sciences: representing the wonders of the natural world through visual art
Rebecca Rutstein, an interdisciplinary artist, and Elyza Bruce, Common Home Editor, discuss artistic process and the interconnected synergy between science and the fine.…
August 28, 2023