Archive: Climate Change

32 Articles

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Climate Change
Spring 2024
Victoria Boatwright

Alumni Spotlight: Victoria Boatwright, Ocean Scientist and PhD Candidate

Georgetown Alumni Victoria Boatwright discusses her recent work at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at U.C. San Diego and offers advice for those seeking a career in STEM…

August 6, 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
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
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

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Environmental Health
Rosemary Sokas
Spring 2024

Jesuit Projects in Climate-Change-Affected Liberia

Professor Rosemary Sokas briefs Common Home on the partnerships between Jesuit organizations in the U.S and abroad in Liberia working to address climate change-induced.…

April 5, 2024

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Climate Change
Maria Petrova
Spring 2024

Revisited: Harnessing the Power of Community Benefit Agreements for Net Zero Targets

For our anniversary issue, Common Home checks back in Professor Petrova who shares her thoughts on the positive impacts of Community Benefit Agreements in clean energy. …

April 5, 2024

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Spring 2024
Sustainability

What’s Under Foot: Land, Environment, and Climate Change

Georgetown professor Tim Bartley draws the significant connection between land and climate. …

March 26, 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

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Interrupt & Integrate: Environmental Courses Under Development at Georgetown

Earth Commons Post-Bac Fellow Keaton Nara provides insight on the interdisciplinary, environmental courses taking shape at.…

March 13, 2024

Adam Shaham
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Challenges in Mangrove Restoration: Does it Work?

Georgetown alumni Adam Shaham explains his Fulbright research on mangrove.…

March 11, 2024