Archive: Arts & Culture

35 Articles

Arts & Culture
Marion Cassidy
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Films on the Federal Stage: A Conversation with Brad Forder, Director of Programming for the D.C. Environmental Film Festival

In this interview, Brad Forder, Director of Programming for the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, discusses the vibrant arena of environmental. …

August 9, 2024

Arts & Culture
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Madhura Shembekar
Spring 2024

Banned and Classic: A Chronicle of Prohibited Environmental Books in the USA

n this personal essay, Aayush Murarka (SFS ’26) recounts growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, and how climate change has exacerbated unbearable heat waves in the.…

August 2, 2024

Arts & Culture
Environmental Justice
Sophia Monsalvo
Spring 2024

A Reflection on Grounding: A New Retreat for BIPOC Students, Art, and Caring for our Common Home

Sophia Monsalvo (CAS ’26) discusses her journey of creating Grounding, a new retreat for students of color to connect with their ancestry and the environment through. …

July 30, 2024

Arts & Culture
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Madhura Shembekar
Marion Cassidy
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Bringing Sustainability to the Entertainment Industry: Earth Angel is leading the way in sustainable production services in film and television

Marion Cassidy (CAS ’23) and Common Home editor Madhura Shembekar (SFS ’26) outline how Earth Angel is leading efforts to make the film industry more. …

July 30, 2024

Arts & Culture
Cecilia Cassidy
Environmental Justice
Jennifer D. Roberts
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Two Biophilic Giants: A Poem

In this poem, Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts explores the intellectual conflicts between W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington and their enduring environmental. …

July 26, 2024

Arts & Culture
Spring 2024
Summer 2024

Common Home Arts Showcase 2024

Fatigue, courage, futility, hope and perseverance: the Earth Commons and its Common Home magazine welcome the Georgetown community to express their feelings about our changing…

May 1, 2024

Arts & Culture
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Erin Cline
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Early Ecological Ethics: A Look at Chinese Environmental Thought

Professor Erin Cline looks at the implications of Chinese philosophy for an environmental. …

April 7, 2024

Arts & Culture
Climate Change
Elyza Bruce
Spring 2024

What We’re Reading: “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth” by Elizabeth Rush

Common Home editor, Elyza Bruce reviews “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth” by Elizabeth Rush for Common Home series, “What We’re.”…

March 18, 2024

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

Watering Whole

Excerpts from Jan Menafee’s new poetry collection "Watering"…

October 12, 2023

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

An Irresistible Revolution: One Alumni’s Art-Based Change

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

October 6, 2023