Archive: Issues
106 Articles
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Sadie Morris
- Spring 2023
Dismantling Dams for Decolonization
Sadie Morris (SFS '22) discusses the removal of dams on the lower Klamath on the Oregon-California border and the dams' broader significance in the environment and the legacies…
May 4, 2023
- Climate Change
- Food & Water
- Frontiers of Mariculture
- Nicholas Kee
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Under the Jamaican Sea: Turning seaweed into carbon credits at Kee Farms
Nishitha Vivek (MS '23) sits down with Nicholas Kee, CEO and co-founder of Kee Farms, a regenerative ocean farm network based in.…
May 4, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Food & Water
- Rebecca Helm
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Ecosystems Afloat
Far out to sea, floating ecosystems are developing on dead trees, debris, and even plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Georgetown professor and Earth Commons Faculty…
May 3, 2023
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Shelby Gresch
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Hello Hoya Harvest
Shelby Gresch reflects on what role the Hoya Harvest, Georgetown's newly opened campus farm, can play in the growing practice of urban agriculture and how it can contribute to…
April 28, 2023
- Candice Powers
- Climate Change
- Food & Water
- Frontiers of Mariculture
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Changing our minds, stomachs, and planet
With environmental benefits ranging from protection from algae blooms to creating a more sustainable feed for cows, kelp-centered enterprises are emerging as a fast-growing…
April 28, 2023
- Climate & Energy
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Gillian Meyers
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
People, Profits, and Planet
Gillian Meyers (SFS '23) reflects upon the durability of mutually beneficial Corporate-Indigenous partnerships and their effectiveness in protecting people and the.…
April 25, 2023
- Arts & Culture
- Climate Change
- Sarah Craig
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Climate Change and Curriculum: Georgetown’s Core Pathways Initiative at Five Years
Sarah Craig (SFS '23) reflects on the fifth anniversary of Georgetown's Core Pathways Initiative, an interdisciplinary program that encourages students to explore issues of…
April 25, 2023
- Alannah Nathan
- Editor Letters
- Fall 2022
- Marion Cassidy
- Maya Snyder
Editor Letter, Fall 2022
We are thrilled to present to you the fourth issue of Common Home, Georgetown’s magazine on environment and sustainability from the Earth Commons Institute (ECo). In this…
April 14, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Peter Marra
- Spring 2023
To conserve biodiversity, we must stop chasing ghosts and start making plans
In biodiversity conservation as in climate action, seeing the forest for the trees means acting before the forest is reduced to a single tree. That means taking real action now…
March 29, 2023
- Anya Wahal
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Spring 2023
Drought-Stricken, Arizona Farmers Face Bleak Growing Season
Green Commons Award recipient Anya Wahal shares her insights on the dynamics of the water crisis unfolding in the American. …
February 18, 2023