Archive: Sustainability

47 Articles

Biodiversity
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
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

Biodiversity
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
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

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

Arts & Culture
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Erin Cline
Spring 2024
Sustainability

Early Ecological Ethics: A Look at Chinese Environmental Thought

Professor Erin Cline looks at the implications of Chinese philosophy for an environmental. …

April 7, 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
Climate Change
Spring 2024
Sustainability

What’s Under Foot: Land, Environment, and Climate Change

Georgetown professor Tim Bartley draws the significant connection between land and climate. …

March 26, 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