Archive: Environmental Justice

33 Articles

Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Spring 2024

A Single Seedling 

Eliana Mlawski (CAS ’26) discusses her efforts to engage the Georgetown community in a food justice.…

August 2, 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

Environmental Justice
Erin Czelusniak
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Eco-Tourism is an Eco-Drain

Erin Czelusniak, (CAS ‘24 ) discusses the problematic impacts of eco-tourism on local communities and conservation. …

July 26, 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

Environmental Justice
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Green Commons Award Recipient: Georgetown Women’s Center

A review of the outcomes from a Green Commons award to the Georgetown’s Women’s Center for a study on the sustainability of menstrual. …

April 19, 2024

Environmental Health
Environmental Justice
Jennifer D. Roberts
Spring 2024

Don’t Get In The Water: Blue Space Racism and the Drowning of Black Bodies

Professor Jennifer D. Roberts of University of Maryland School of Public Health discusses the prevalence of blue space. …

March 25, 2024

Biodiversity
Brian M. Griffiths
Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Food, Culture, and Conservation in Maijuna Lands

A creative nonfiction piece by Assistant Professor Griffiths on his research with Peruvian Indigenous.…

March 15, 2024

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Marcus King
Spring 2024

Climate Change and the Water Weapon: How Rising Temperatures are Expanding the Footprint of Conflict

Georgetown Professor Marcus King delineates the implications of water crisis on conflict across the…

March 8, 2024

Barwendé M. Sané
Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Remembering Ecologist Yacouba Sawadogo: 2020 Champion of the Earth’s Inspirational Legacy

Georgetown Postdoctoral Associate Barwendé M. Sané discusses the legacy of the ecologist Yacouba.…

February 22, 2024