Archive: Spring 2023
17 Articles
- 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
- 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
- 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