Archive: Food & Water

22 Articles

Alannah Nathan
Food & Water
Interviews
Summer 2023
Sustainability

Alumni Spotlight: Luke Holden, Founder and CEO of Luke’s Lobster 

Luke Holden, founder and CEO of Luke's Lobster, and Alannah Nathan, Common Home Editor, discuss sustainable business.…

October 23, 2023

Arts & Culture
Cecilia Cassidy
Food & Water
Jan Menafee
Summer 2023

Watering Whole

Excerpts from Jan Menafee’s new poetry collection "Watering"…

October 12, 2023

Environmental Justice
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

Elyza Bruce
Environmental Health
Food & Water
Summer 2023

The ripple effects of Sackett v. EPA

The Supreme Court of the United States passed a ruling this past May that will significantly limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to protect streams and wetlands…

August 30, 2023

Alannah Nathan
Food & Water
Spring 2023

Reinventing the Food System Through Private Investment

Alannah Nathan examines how two alternative agricultural companies are changing the cultivation.…

June 20, 2023

Candice Powers
Food & Water
Spring 2023

Kelp is on the way: How one scientist is using seaweed and oysters to save our coastal waters and communities

Georgetown alumni Candice Powers profiles mariculture pioneer Michael Doall who is leading the charge for sustainable oyster farms that both provide sustenance and clean the.…

June 20, 2023

Biodiversity
Elizabeth Hogan
Food & Water
Interviews
Spring 2023
Sustainability

Life on the Seas: Navigating a Career in Marine Conservation

Maya Snyder (SFS '24) sits down with conservation scientist Elizabeth Hogan (SFS '97) to talk about the some of biggest problems plaguing marine wildlife, the most encouraging…

May 4, 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

Climate Change
Food & Water
Frontiers of Mariculture
Nicholas Kee
Spring 2023
Sustainability

Under the Jamaican Sea: Turning seaweed into carbon credits at Kee Farms

Nishitha Vivek (MS '23) sits down with Nicholas Kee, CEO and co-founder of Kee Farms, a regenerative ocean farm network based in.…

May 4, 2023

Biodiversity
Food & Water
Rebecca Helm
Spring 2023
Sustainability

Ecosystems Afloat

Far out to sea, floating ecosystems are developing on dead trees, debris, and even plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Georgetown professor and Earth Commons Faculty…

May 3, 2023