Archive: Spring 2022

23 Articles

Biodiversity
Maya Snyder
Spring 2022

A Flutter of Memory

Common Home editor Maya Snyder explores Georgetown professor, Dr. Weiss' research on the relationship between caterpillars and cicadas in the. …

April 1, 2022

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