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Arts & Culture
Maya Snyder
Spring 2022

Pens and Voices Gathered Round

On Earth Day, Georgetown invited journalists, artists, and activists to lead a series of roundtable discussions on topics ranging misinformation in the news to environmental…

February 12, 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

Arts & Culture
Daniela Fernandez
Environmental Justice
Spring 2022

The Future of a Healthier Planet Begins with Us

Guest writer Daniela Fernandez COL '17, Founder and CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance, champions today's youth in the fight against climate change: "Together, we are abundantly…

February 9, 2022

Biodiversity
Climate & Energy
Madeline Babin
Spring 2022

COP26

For many, COP26 marked the “last best chance” for world leaders to keep the Paris Agreement’s 1.5ºC target afloat. While the conference generated some progress—…

February 9, 2022

Alannah Nathan
Biodiversity
Climate & Energy
Spring 2022

More than Meets the Eye

Often overlooked, salt marshes serve an essential role in protecting the environment and mitigating climate change. Yet today, roughly half of the world’s salt marshes are at…

February 8, 2022

Arts & Culture
Climate & Energy
Environmental Justice
Sadie Morris
Spring 2022

Burned Out on a Burning Planet

In "Burned Out on a Burning Planet," student editor, Sadie Morris, a self-described defunct activist, reflects on burnout in the climate. …

February 2, 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

Arts & Culture
Biodiversity
Catherine Novelli
Spring 2021
Sustainability

Speaking the Wealth of Nature

Professor Catherine Novelli explains how the Wealth of Nature podcast series explores the intersection of business and.…

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

Arts & Culture
Environmental Justice
Interviews
Leslie Crutchfield
Peter Marra
Spring 2021
Uncategorized

From Grassroots to Gold: How to Organize Successful Movements

Why do some social movements succeed while other's don't? Author and Georgetown professor Leslie Crutchfield chats with Pete Marra on what history can teach us - for the…

July 8, 2021