Archive: Climate & Energy

31 Articles

Climate & Energy
Emily Prest
Joan Lombardi
Spring 2022

Safeguarding the Future Generation

Joan Lombardi and Emily Prest explore the particular vulnerabilities of children in the climate crisis, what is being done to address them, and how children are demanding action…

June 3, 2022

Climate & Energy
Elsa Barron

When Tensions Simmer, Too

Program Assistant Elsa Barron at the Center for Climate and Security discusses the implications of climate conflict in Syria, Ethiopia, and. …

June 2, 2022

Climate & Energy
Interviews
Mark Agard
Sustainability

Reimagining Cities: The Future of Urban Planning

An interview with Dr. Christopher Pyke of the Georgetown School of Continuing Studies on the future of urban planning, by Common Home editor Mark.…

April 27, 2022

Climate & Energy
Food & Water
Sadie Morris
Spring 2022
Sustainability

Going GREEN at Georgetown

A profile of Georgetown Renewable Energy and Environment Network ). …

April 13, 2022

Clara Chiu
Climate & Energy
Environmental Justice
Erin LeGoff
Spring 2022

The Making of Maladaptation

Georgetown alumni, Clara Chiu and Erin LeGoff explain the concept of Maladaption: when climate projects set out to do good, unintentionally make matters. …

March 28, 2022

Biodiversity
Climate & Energy
Madeline Babin
Spring 2022

COP26

For many, COP26 marked the “last best chance” for world leaders to keep the Paris Agreement’s 1.5ºC target afloat. While the conference generated some progress—…

February 9, 2022

Alannah Nathan
Biodiversity
Climate & Energy
Spring 2022

More than Meets the Eye

Often overlooked, salt marshes serve an essential role in protecting the environment and mitigating climate change. Yet today, roughly half of the world’s salt marshes are at…

February 8, 2022

Arts & Culture
Climate & Energy
Environmental Justice
Sadie Morris
Spring 2022

Burned Out on a Burning Planet

In "Burned Out on a Burning Planet," student editor, Sadie Morris, a self-described defunct activist, reflects on burnout in the climate. …

February 2, 2022

Climate & Energy
Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Spring 2021

Cops, Climate, and COVID

The climate and COVID-19 crises are combining and compounding each other. How they interact is, primarily, a question of whom and what the political system chooses to protect:…

July 8, 2021

Arts & Culture
Climate & Energy
Interviews
Lub Dub
Marion Cassidy
Spring 2021

Leading with Empathy

LubDub Theatre Company puts human emotions around the environment center…

July 8, 2021