Archive: Issues
106 Articles
- Environmental Justice
- 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
- Elyza Bruce
- Environmental Health
- 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
- 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
- Biodiversity
- Maya Snyder
- Spring 2023
Invasive Insects: Examining the Spread of The Cabbage White Butterfly
Researchers at Georgetown University are using cutting-edge mathematical models to map species evolution in a changing. …
June 20, 2023
- Alannah Nathan
- Food & Water
- Spring 2023
Reinventing the Food System Through Private Investment
Alannah Nathan examines how two alternative agricultural companies are changing the cultivation.…
June 20, 2023
- Candice Powers
- Food & Water
- Spring 2023
Kelp is on the way: How one scientist is using seaweed and oysters to save our coastal waters and communities
Georgetown alumni Candice Powers profiles mariculture pioneer Michael Doall who is leading the charge for sustainable oyster farms that both provide sustenance and clean the.…
June 20, 2023
- Candice Powers
- Environmental Justice
- Spring 2023
Stewardship of Oceans Should Belong to the First Nations People
First Nations People have sustainably stewarded the oceans for centuries. Now modern practices must make room for them to lead in a sustainable mariculture. …
June 20, 2023
- Alannah Nathan
- Editor Letters
- Marion Cassidy
- Maya Snyder
- Spring 2023
Editor Letter, Spring 2023
We are thrilled to present to you the fifth issue of Common Home, Georgetown’s magazine on environment and sustainability from the Earth Commons Institute (ECo). In this issue,…
May 31, 2023
- Alannah Nathan
- Climate & Energy
- Summer 2023
Raising the Grade of the U.S. Electrical Grid
Alannah Nathan examines how Convergent Energy and Power is working to update the U.S. energy grid to meet the needs of an electrical. …
May 29, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Elizabeth Hogan
- Food & Water
- Interviews
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Life on the Seas: Navigating a Career in Marine Conservation
Maya Snyder (SFS '24) sits down with conservation scientist Elizabeth Hogan (SFS '97) to talk about the some of biggest problems plaguing marine wildlife, the most encouraging…
May 4, 2023