Archive: climate change

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Editor Letters
Issues
Spring 2024

Editor Letter, Spring 2024

We’re pleased to announce the seventh issue of Common Home. We’d like to warmly welcome Daniel Greilsheimer (SFS ‘26), who joined our team this past November. He follows on…

March 1, 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
Fall 2023
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

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Climate Change
Fall 2023
Summer 2023

Defense, Denial, and Disinformation: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Early Knowledge of Climate Change 

Charlotte Taylor, SFS '24, discusses the oil industry's decades-long campaign of climate change.…

October 25, 2023

Arts & Culture
Cecilia Cassidy
Fall 2023
Food & Water
Jan Menafee
Summer 2023

Watering Whole

Excerpts from Jan Menafee’s new poetry collection "Watering"…

October 12, 2023

Arts & Culture
Ashanee Kottage
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Fall 2023
Madhura Shembekar
Summer 2023

An Irresistible Revolution: One Alumni’s Art-Based Change

Earth Commons research analyst Ashanee Kottage and Common Home Editor Madhura Shembekar discuss performance art and climate. …

October 6, 2023

Climate Change
Fall 2023
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

Biodiversity
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Fall 2023
Madhura Shembekar
Summer 2023

Extinction Rebellion: Inciting Controversy–and Conversation–Since 2018 

Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based, radical environmental group, uses public acts of civil disobedience to spark conversation about the climate.…

September 21, 2023

Cecilia Cassidy
Climate Change
Fall 2023
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

Arts & Culture
Elyza Bruce
Fall 2023
Summer 2023
What We're Reading

What We’re Reading: “Meltwater” by Claire Wahmanholm

In the poetry collection “Meltwater,” Claire Wahmanholm poignantly articulates the grief, anxiety, and uncanniness of ecological disaster and explores what it means to raise…

September 11, 2023