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