Archive: Food & Water
36 Articles
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Chloe Hammock
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Urban Farms: A Chicago Suburb’s Proposal for Change
Chloe Hammock (SHS ‘25) analyzes the potentially problematic implications of a new urban farm that will be established in her home town of Evanston,.…
August 9, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Animal Consumption and Cultural Responsibility: A Journal Entry
Théa Jacquand, (COL ‘26) reflects on the ethics of consuming animal products and how she stays connected to her heritage through food while still maintaining a planet-friendly…
August 9, 2024
- Environmental Health
- Food & Water
- Lucy Bowden
- Spring 2024
From Gas Chambers to Your Table: Organophosphate Pesticides are Deadly Killers
Lucy Bowden (COL ‘24) discusses the threat that organophosphate pesticides pose to public health in Bihar,. …
August 6, 2024
- 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
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Randall Amster
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Empty Kilobytes? The Promise and Peril of Digital Food
Professor Randall Amster unpacks the evolution of digital food systems and the role they play in modern.…
July 30, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
From the Hilltop to the Field: A Georgetown Professor’s Journey into Sustainable Agriculture
Professor Colette Loll reflects on her experiences running a farm using regenerative agriculture practices, and how she has combined her passion for the humanities and…
July 26, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Food & Water
- Max Scheiner
- Spring 2024
The Mega Impact of Microplastics: the Reality of the “Great” Pacific Garbage Patch
Georgetown student, Max Scheiner breaks down the true implications of the Pacific Garbage. …
April 17, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Madhura Shembekar
- Shelby Gresch
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Revisited: Shelby Gresch, the Force Behind the Hoya Harvest Garden
For our anniversary issue, Common Home checks back in with Shelby Gresch, post-baccalaureate fellow with the Earth Commons responsible for the Hoya Harvest. …
March 30, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Sarah Devermann
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Leveraging Technology to Make Smallholder Farming Sustainable
Georgetown alumni shares her work in making technology available for small. …
March 22, 2024
- Alannah Nathan
- Cecelia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
MICHELIN Guide’s Green Star Celebrates Sustainability at the World’s Top Restaurants
Common Home editor, Alannah Nathan, examines Michelin Guide’s new Green Star awards and some of its.…
March 20, 2024