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129 Articles
- Arts & Culture
- Environmental Justice
- Sophia Monsalvo
- Spring 2024
A Reflection on Grounding: A New Retreat for BIPOC Students, Art, and Caring for our Common Home
Sophia Monsalvo (CAS ’26) discusses her journey of creating Grounding, a new retreat for students of color to connect with their ancestry and the environment through. …
July 30, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Randall Amster
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Empty Kilobytes? The Promise and Peril of Digital Food
Professor Randall Amster unpacks the evolution of digital food systems and the role they play in modern.…
July 30, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Camber Vincent
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
High-Seas Fishery Managers Should Oppose Deep-Sea Mining
Camber Vincent (SFS ’24 ) breaks down the potential threat of deep-sea mining to marine.…
July 30, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
From the Hilltop to the Field: A Georgetown Professor’s Journey into Sustainable Agriculture
Professor Colette Loll reflects on her experiences running a farm using regenerative agriculture practices, and how she has combined her passion for the humanities and…
July 26, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Janet Mann
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Searching for Dolphins in the Potomac River
Professor Janet Mann recounts her efforts to track dolphin populations in the Potomac. …
July 26, 2024
- Environmental Justice
- Erin Czelusniak
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Eco-Tourism is an Eco-Drain
Erin Czelusniak, (CAS ‘24 ) discusses the problematic impacts of eco-tourism on local communities and conservation. …
July 26, 2024
- Arts & Culture
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Environmental Justice
- Jennifer D. Roberts
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Two Biophilic Giants: A Poem
In this poem, Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts explores the intellectual conflicts between W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington and their enduring environmental. …
July 26, 2024
- Arts & Culture
- Spring 2024
- Summer 2024
Common Home Arts Showcase 2024
Fatigue, courage, futility, hope and perseverance: the Earth Commons and its Common Home magazine welcome the Georgetown community to express their feelings about our changing…
May 1, 2024
- Environmental Justice
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Green Commons Award Recipient: Georgetown Women’s Center
A review of the outcomes from a Green Commons award to the Georgetown’s Women’s Center for a study on the sustainability of menstrual. …
April 19, 2024
- 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