Archive: Food & Water

30 Articles

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

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

Anya Wahal
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Food & Water
Madhura Shembekar
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Revisited: Alumni Environmental Researcher, Anya Wahal

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

March 10, 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

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