Archive: environmental justice
13 Articles
- Biodiversity
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- 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
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Summer 2023
- Yuki Kato
Urban Cultivation Matters
Urban farms provide a variety of social benefits to the communities that tend them by challenging capitalistic systems of social inequity. However, growers face a host of…
September 1, 2023
- Candice Powers
- Environmental Justice
- Spring 2023
Stewardship of Oceans Should Belong to the First Nations People
First Nations People have sustainably stewarded the oceans for centuries. Now modern practices must make room for them to lead in a sustainable mariculture. …
June 20, 2023
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Sadie Morris
- Spring 2023
Dismantling Dams for Decolonization
Sadie Morris (SFS '22) discusses the removal of dams on the lower Klamath on the Oregon-California border and the dams' broader significance in the environment and the legacies…
May 4, 2023
- Anya Wahal
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
Water in the West: The Story of Farming in the Colorado River Basin
Green Commons Award recipient Anya Wahal shares her insights on the dynamics of the water crisis unfolding in the American. …
March 31, 2023
- Environmental Justice
- Maya Alcantara
Is the Worst Yet to Come? Cleaning up the Contamination in East Palestine, Ohio
Common Home editor Maya Alcantara responds to the recent environmental disaster in East Palestine,. …
March 14, 2023
- Anya Wahal
- Climate Change
- Environmental Justice
- Food & Water
- Spring 2023
Drought-Stricken, Arizona Farmers Face Bleak Growing Season
Green Commons Award recipient Anya Wahal shares her insights on the dynamics of the water crisis unfolding in the American. …
February 18, 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…
October 15, 2022
- Climate & Energy
- Environmental Justice
- Sadie Morris
Statehood Denied
The burden on the environment and DC’s minority residents Author: Sadie Morris, SFS ’22 & Common Home Editor Washington, D.C. is simultaneously one of the most…
August 25, 2022
- Arts & Culture
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Justice
- Series
Earth Day with Earth Commons
Voices on the Environment Series: Intergenerational Justice Voices on the Environment is a multi-year event series at the intersection of science, the humanities and the arts…
August 25, 2022