Archive: Climate & Energy

31 Articles

Ben Oestericher
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Edna N. Bosire
Emily Mendenhall
Environmental Health
Shabab Wahid
Spring 2024

When Climate Displaces a Way of Life: The Uncounted Toll on Mental Health on the Front Lines of Climate Change

A team of Georgetown researchers discuss the results of a study conducted in Kilifi County, Kenya. This study investigated the impact of climate change on the mental health of…

August 6, 2024

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

Aayush Muraka
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Environmental Health
Spring 2024
Sustainability

A Climate Autobiography: Reflecting on Cultural Adaptation in the Sonoran Sun 

In 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

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

Biodiversity
Climate & Energy
Oswaldo Villena
Spring 2024

The Impact of Global Warming on Human and Avian Malaria

Georgetown postdoctoral researcher examines the impacts of climate change on. …

April 1, 2024

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Climate Change
Peter Marra
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Letter from the Dean: Why I’m an Environmental Optimist

Earth Commons Dean Mara gives his thoughts as the institute passes its two-year.…

March 5, 2024

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Climate Change
Fall 2023
Summer 2023

Defense, Denial, and Disinformation: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Early Knowledge of Climate Change 

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

October 25, 2023

Alannah Nathan
Climate & Energy
Fall 2023
Summer 2023

Raising the Grade of the U.S. Electrical Grid

Alannah Nathan examines how Convergent Energy and Power is working to update the U.S. energy grid to meet the needs of an electrical. …

May 29, 2023

Climate & Energy
Environmental Health
Environmental Justice
Gillian Meyers
Spring 2023
Sustainability

People, Profits, and Planet

Gillian Meyers (SFS '23) reflects upon the durability of mutually beneficial Corporate-Indigenous partnerships and their effectiveness in protecting people and the.…

April 25, 2023

Biodiversity
Climate & Energy
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Olivia Ainbinder
Spring 2023
Sustainability

A Win for the Environment

What are the environmental impacts of Brazil's recent presidential election? Olivia Ainbinder shares her perspective on President Lula's win and what it means for the country's…

February 17, 2023