Archive: environmental justice
18 Articles
- 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
- Food & Water
- Jan Menafee
- Summer 2023
Watering Whole
Excerpts from Jan Menafee’s new poetry collection "Watering"…
October 12, 2023
- Biodiversity
- Cecilia Cassidy
- 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