Archive: environmental justice

23 Articles

Ben Oestericher
Cecilia Cassidy
Climate & Energy
Edna N. Bosire
Emily Mendenhall
Environmental Health
Shabab Wahid
Spring 2024

When Climate Displaces a Way of Life: The Uncounted Toll on Mental Health on the Front Lines of Climate Change

A team of Georgetown researchers discuss the results of a study conducted in Kilifi County, Kenya. This study investigated the impact of climate change on the mental health of…

August 6, 2024

Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Spring 2024

A Single Seedling 

Eliana Mlawski (CAS ’26) discusses her efforts to engage the Georgetown community in a food justice.…

August 2, 2024

Arts & Culture
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Madhura Shembekar
Spring 2024

Banned and Classic: A Chronicle of Prohibited Environmental Books in the USA

n this personal essay, Aayush Murarka (SFS ’26) recounts growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, and how climate change has exacerbated unbearable heat waves in the.…

August 2, 2024

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
Cecilia Cassidy
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

Environmental Health
Environmental Justice
Jennifer D. Roberts
Spring 2024

Don’t Get In The Water: Blue Space Racism and the Drowning of Black Bodies

Professor Jennifer D. Roberts of University of Maryland School of Public Health discusses the prevalence of blue space. …

March 25, 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…

March 8, 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

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