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