Food & Water Security
These pieces focus on the challenge of sustainability and equitably providing for a growing global population in the face of climate change, pollution, conflicting governmental policies and corporate greed.
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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 agriculture with her concerns about climate change and broken food systems.
July 26, 2024
Biodiversity, Food & Water, Max Scheiner, Spring 2024
The Mega Impact of Microplastics: the Reality of the “Great” Pacific Garbage Patch
April 17, 2024
Cecilia Cassidy, Food & Water, Madhura Shembekar, Shelby Gresch, Spring 2024, Sustainability
Revisited: Shelby Gresch, the Force Behind the Hoya Harvest Garden
March 30, 2024
Cecilia Cassidy, Food & Water, Sarah Devermann, Spring 2024, Sustainability
Leveraging Technology to Make Smallholder Farming Sustainable
March 22, 2024
Biodiversity, Brian M. Griffiths, Environmental Justice, Food & Water, Spring 2024, Sustainability
Food, Culture, and Conservation in Maijuna Lands
A creative nonfiction piece by Assistant Professor Griffiths on his research with Peruvian Indigenous Maijunas.
March 15, 2024
Cecilia Cassidy, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Food & Water, Marcus King, Spring 2024
Climate Change and the Water Weapon: How Rising Temperatures are Expanding the Footprint of Conflict
Georgetown Professor Marcus King delineates the implications of water crisis on conflict across the globe
March 8, 2024
Anya Wahal, Cecilia Cassidy, Climate Change, Food & Water, Madhura Shembekar, Spring 2024, Sustainability
Revisited: Alumni Environmental Researcher, Anya Wahal
Georgetown Professor Marcus King delineates the implications of water crisis on conflict across the globe
March 10, 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 recipients.
March 20, 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 Sawadogo.
February 22, 2024
Alannah Nathan, Fall 2023, 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 management.
October 23, 2023