Archive: Environmental Health
19 Articles
- Ben Oestericher
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate & Energy
- Edna N. Bosire
- Emily Mendenhall
- Environmental Health
- Shabab Wahid
- Spring 2024
When Climate Displaces a Way of Life: The Uncounted Toll on Mental Health on the Front Lines of Climate Change
A team of Georgetown researchers discuss the results of a study conducted in Kilifi County, Kenya. This study investigated the impact of climate change on the mental health of…
August 6, 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
- Aayush Muraka
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate & Energy
- Environmental Health
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
A Climate Autobiography: Reflecting on Cultural Adaptation in the Sonoran Sun
In this personal essay, Aayush Murarka (SFS ’26) recounts growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, and how climate change has exacerbated unbearable heat waves in the.…
August 2, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Rosemary Sokas
- Spring 2024
Jesuit Projects in Climate-Change-Affected Liberia
Professor Rosemary Sokas briefs Common Home on the partnerships between Jesuit organizations in the U.S and abroad in Liberia working to address climate change-induced.…
April 5, 2024
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Jennifer D. Roberts
- Spring 2024
Don’t Get In The Water: Blue Space Racism and the Drowning of Black Bodies
Professor Jennifer D. Roberts of University of Maryland School of Public Health discusses the prevalence of blue space. …
March 25, 2024
- Elyza Bruce
- Environmental Health
- Fall 2023
- 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
- Climate & Energy
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Gillian Meyers
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
People, Profits, and Planet
Gillian Meyers (SFS '23) reflects upon the durability of mutually beneficial Corporate-Indigenous partnerships and their effectiveness in protecting people and the.…
April 25, 2023
- Arts & Culture
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Peter Marra
- Sustainability
Common Home Photography Showcase Winners
In biodiversity conservation as in climate action, seeing the forest for the trees means acting before the forest is reduced to a single tree. That means taking real action now…
April 11, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Peter Marra
- Spring 2023
To conserve biodiversity, we must stop chasing ghosts and start making plans
In biodiversity conservation as in climate action, seeing the forest for the trees means acting before the forest is reduced to a single tree. That means taking real action now…
March 29, 2023
- Climate Change
- Environmental Health
- Fall 2022
- Interviews
- Sustainability
- Ursula Gately
Rising Risk of Extreme Heat on Health in the District
Have you wondered why the summer heat in DC has increased so much? Undergraduate student Ursula Gately (COL'23) investigates rising heat in the district and the governmental, as…
October 15, 2022