Archive: Summer 2023

16 Articles

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Fall 2023
Maya Alcantara
Summer 2023
Sustainability

Alumni Spotlight: Sara Jordan, Deputy Chief of Staff at The White House Council on Environmental Quality

Georgetown Alumni Sara Jordan and Common Home editor Maya Alcantara discuss Jordan's career in environmental.โ€ฆ

October 30, 2023

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Climate Change
Fall 2023
Summer 2023

Defense, Denial, and Disinformation: Uncovering the Oil Industryโ€™s Early Knowledge of Climate Change 

Charlotte Taylor, SFS '24, discusses the oil industry's decades-long campaign of climate change.โ€ฆ

October 25, 2023

Alannah Nathan
Fall 2023
Food & Water
Interviews
Summer 2023
Sustainability

Alumni Spotlight: Luke Holden, Founder and CEO of Lukeโ€™s Lobster 

Luke Holden, founder and CEO of Luke's Lobster, and Alannah Nathan, Common Home Editor, discuss sustainable business.โ€ฆ

October 23, 2023

Arts & Culture
Cecilia Cassidy
Fall 2023
Food & Water
Jan Menafee
Summer 2023

Watering Whole

Excerpts from Jan Menafeeโ€™s new poetry collection "Watering"โ€ฆ

October 12, 2023

Arts & Culture
Ashanee Kottage
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Fall 2023
Madhura Shembekar
Summer 2023

An Irresistible Revolution: One Alumniโ€™s Art-Based Change

Earth Commons research analyst Ashanee Kottage and Common Home Editor Madhura Shembekar discuss performance art and climate. โ€ฆ

October 6, 2023

Climate Change
Fall 2023
Marion Cassidy
Summer 2023
Sustainability

A Futuristโ€™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.โ€ฆ

October 6, 2023

Biodiversity
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Fall 2023
Madhura Shembekar
Summer 2023

Extinction Rebellion: Inciting Controversyโ€“and Conversationโ€“Since 2018 

Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based, radical environmental group, uses public acts of civil disobedience to spark conversation about the climate.โ€ฆ

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.โ€ฆ

September 13, 2023

Arts & Culture
Elyza Bruce
Fall 2023
Summer 2023
What We're Reading

What Weโ€™re Reading: โ€œMeltwaterโ€ by Claire Wahmanholm

In the poetry collection โ€œMeltwater,โ€ Claire Wahmanholm poignantly articulates the grief, anxiety, and uncanniness of ecological disaster and explores what it means to raiseโ€ฆ

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.โ€ฆ

September 9, 2023