Archive: Topics
86 Articles
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Madhura Shembekar
- Summer 2023
Extinction Rebellion: Inciting Controversy–and Conversation–Since 2018
Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based, radical environmental group, uses public acts of civil disobedience to spark conversation about the climate.…
September 21, 2023
- Climate Change
- 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.…
September 13, 2023
- Arts & Culture
- Elyza Bruce
- Summer 2023
- What We're Reading
What We’re Reading: “Meltwater” by Claire Wahmanholm
In the poetry collection “Meltwater,” Claire Wahmanholm poignantly articulates the grief, anxiety, and uncanniness of ecological disaster and explores what it means to raise…
September 11, 2023
- Arts & Culture
- Cecilia Cassidy
- 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.…
September 9, 2023
- Alexandra Pyne
- Climate Change
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
One Industry, Many Ideologies: Exploring Sustainable Finance
2022 Stapleton Fellow at Georgetown University, Alexandra Pyne examines the role of the finance industry in addressing the climate. …
September 5, 2023
- 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