Archive: Food & Water

36 Articles

Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Kyle Paoletta
Spring 2022
Sustainability

Fallowed Ground

Common Home Correspondent Kyle Paoletta takes us to the southwest where the first concrete test of America's ability to adapt to the climate crisis is underway: the agreement…

February 13, 2022

Food & Water
Mark Agard
Spring 2022
Sustainability

How Campus Works: Water and Power

Whether the thousands of feet of water pipes under the campus or the solar panel fields that span across the Mid-Atlantic, it takes a lot to maintain the modern amenities of a…

February 10, 2022

Food & Water
Spring 2021
Sustainability

Growing Up

Andra Roventa, a Georgetown graduate student, studies the feasibility of vertical farming to reduce food insecurity in.…

July 8, 2021

Climate & Energy
Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Spring 2021

Cops, Climate, and COVID

The climate and COVID-19 crises are combining and compounding each other. How they interact is, primarily, a question of whom and what the political system chooses to protect:…

July 8, 2021

Environmental Health
Food & Water
Laura Anderko
Spring 2021

Forever Chemicals

What synthetic chemicals are lurking in our water, frying pans, raingear, and fast food wrappers? Dr. Laura Anderko explains the dangers of…

June 17, 2021

Environmental Health
Food & Water
Sheila Foster
Spring 2021
The Silo
Tiffany Ganthier

The Silo: Toxic Racism

Georgetown scholars Tiffany Ganthier, Laura Anderko, and Sheila R. Foster share their perspectives on environmental…

June 16, 2021