Archive: Environmental Justice
33 Articles
- Biodiversity
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Fall 2023
- Madhura Shembekar
- Summer 2023
Extinction Rebellion: Inciting Controversy–and Conversation–Since 2018
Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based, radical environmental group, uses public acts of civil disobedience to spark conversation about the climate.…
September 21, 2023
- Environmental Justice
- Fall 2023
- Food & Water
- Summer 2023
- Yuki Kato
Urban Cultivation Matters
Urban farms provide a variety of social benefits to the communities that tend them by challenging capitalistic systems of social inequity. However, growers face a host of…
September 1, 2023
- Candice Powers
- Environmental Justice
- Spring 2023
Stewardship of Oceans Should Belong to the First Nations People
First Nations People have sustainably stewarded the oceans for centuries. Now modern practices must make room for them to lead in a sustainable mariculture. …
June 20, 2023
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Sadie Morris
- Spring 2023
Dismantling Dams for Decolonization
Sadie Morris (SFS '22) discusses the removal of dams on the lower Klamath on the Oregon-California border and the dams' broader significance in the environment and the legacies…
May 4, 2023
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Shelby Gresch
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Hello Hoya Harvest
Shelby Gresch reflects on what role the Hoya Harvest, Georgetown's newly opened campus farm, can play in the growing practice of urban agriculture and how it can contribute to…
April 28, 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
- Arts & Culture
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Peter Marra
- Sustainability
Common Home Photography Showcase Winners
In biodiversity conservation as in climate action, seeing the forest for the trees means acting before the forest is reduced to a single tree. That means taking real action now…
April 11, 2023
- Anya Wahal
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
Water in the West: The Story of Farming in the Colorado River Basin
Green Commons Award recipient Anya Wahal shares her insights on the dynamics of the water crisis unfolding in the American. …
March 31, 2023
- Environmental Justice
- Maya Alcantara
Is the Worst Yet to Come? Cleaning up the Contamination in East Palestine, Ohio
Common Home editor Maya Alcantara responds to the recent environmental disaster in East Palestine,. …
March 14, 2023
- Anya Wahal
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Spring 2023
Drought-Stricken, Arizona Farmers Face Bleak Growing Season
Green Commons Award recipient Anya Wahal shares her insights on the dynamics of the water crisis unfolding in the American. …
February 18, 2023