Archive: Sustainability
43 Articles
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate & Energy
- Climate Change
- Peter Marra
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Letter from the Dean: Why I’m an Environmental Optimist
Earth Commons Dean Mara gives his thoughts as the institute passes its two-year.…
March 5, 2024
- Barwendé M. Sané
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Remembering Ecologist Yacouba Sawadogo: 2020 Champion of the Earth’s Inspirational Legacy
Georgetown Postdoctoral Associate Barwendé M. Sané discusses the legacy of the ecologist Yacouba.…
February 22, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Maya Alcantara
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
Alumni Spotlight: Sara Jordan, Deputy Chief of Staff at The White House Council on Environmental Quality
Georgetown Alumni Sara Jordan and Common Home editor Maya Alcantara discuss Jordan's career in environmental.…
October 30, 2023
- Alannah Nathan
- Food & Water
- Interviews
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
Alumni Spotlight: Luke Holden, Founder and CEO of Luke’s Lobster
Luke Holden, founder and CEO of Luke's Lobster, and Alannah Nathan, Common Home Editor, discuss sustainable business.…
October 23, 2023
- Climate Change
- Marion Cassidy
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
A Futurist’s Vision for Higher Education in a Climate-Altered World
Bryan Alexander, an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown, explores the ways in which climate change will impact university.…
October 6, 2023
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Madhura Shembekar
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
Building a Better Future: Urbanism and Conflict in Environmentalism
Dr. Silvia Danielak, urbanist and peace scholar, and Common Home Editor Madhura Shembekar discuss the role infrastructure plays in peacekeeping and the.…
September 13, 2023
- Alexandra Pyne
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Summer 2023
- Sustainability
One Industry, Many Ideologies: Exploring Sustainable Finance
2022 Stapleton Fellow at Georgetown University, Alexandra Pyne examines the role of the finance industry in addressing the climate. …
September 5, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Elizabeth Hogan
- Food & Water
- Interviews
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Life on the Seas: Navigating a Career in Marine Conservation
Maya Snyder (SFS '24) sits down with conservation scientist Elizabeth Hogan (SFS '97) to talk about the some of biggest problems plaguing marine wildlife, the most encouraging…
May 4, 2023
- Climate Change
- Food & Water
- Frontiers of Mariculture
- Nicholas Kee
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Under the Jamaican Sea: Turning seaweed into carbon credits at Kee Farms
Nishitha Vivek (MS '23) sits down with Nicholas Kee, CEO and co-founder of Kee Farms, a regenerative ocean farm network based in.…
May 4, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Food & Water
- Rebecca Helm
- Spring 2023
- Sustainability
Ecosystems Afloat
Far out to sea, floating ecosystems are developing on dead trees, debris, and even plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Georgetown professor and Earth Commons Faculty…
May 3, 2023