Environmental & Human Health
These pieces explore both the health of our environment and how human activity alters key human health determinants, like air quality, food safety, water systems and sanitation.
Cecilia Cassidy, Climate Change, Environmental Health, Rosemary Sokas, Spring 2024
Jesuit Projects in Climate-Change-Affected Liberia
Professor Rosemary Sokas briefs Common Home on the partnerships between Jesuit organizations in the U.S and abroad in Liberia working to address climate change-induced instability.
April 5, 2024
Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Jennifer D. Roberts, Spring 2024
Don’t Get In The Water: Blue Space Racism and the Drowning of Black Bodies
March 25, 2024
Elyza Bruce, Environmental Health, Fall 2023, Food & Water, Summer 2023
The ripple effects of Sackett v. EPA
August 30, 2023
Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Gillian Meyers, Spring 2023, Sustainability
April 25, 2023
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Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Gillian Meyers, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Gillian Meyers (SFS ’23) reflects upon the durability of mutually beneficial Corporate-Indigenous partnerships and their effectiveness in protecting people and the planet.
April 25, 2023
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Health, Peter Marra, Spring 2023
To conserve biodiversity, we must stop chasing ghosts and start making plans
In biodiversity conservation as in climate action, seeing the forest for the trees means acting before the forest is reduced to a single tree. That means taking real action now by passing legislation like the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, revamping existing international treaties, and investing in the research that is required to inform proactive conservation.
March 29, 2023
Climate Change, Environmental Health, Fall 2022, Interviews, Sustainability, Ursula Gately
Rising Risk of Extreme Heat on Health in the District
Have you wondered why the summer heat in DC has increased so much? Undergraduate student Ursula Gately (COL’23) investigates rising heat in the district and the governmental, as well as her own, personal response to it with the founding of the Georgetown Undergraduate Environmental Health Collaborative.
October 15, 2022