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Fall has reached the Earth Commons! From funding opportunities to a harvest festival, there is a lot to discover in this ECoNewsletter!

From Colombia to Peru to Greece, learn about ECo work off the hilltop!

Welcome back to campus! Join us for events, opportunities, and more

Find the Capital Campus’ big sustainability win, the true price of Georgetown coffee, and other exciting headlines in the latest ECoNewsletter!

Warblers, Garden Volunteering, Amazonian Research, and more! Discover how ECo has been spending its summer

Explore one student’s path to MS-ESM, browse our ECo Annual Report ’22-23, and discover new insights into butterfly declines in the latest ECoNewsletter!

Find updates from ECo Greece, performances from our Artist-in-Residence, and upcoming summer events!

Celebrate our graduates and explore upcoming projects in this edition of the ECoNewsletter!

Stop by a garden study break and discover the winners of our Common Home Photography Showcase and Green Commons Award!

Our Festival is tomorrow! Plus, attend the last ECo talk, and check out the latest science

Explore the Earth Month Calendar, read about the future of water security, and more!

There are lots of exciting things in store for ECo in the coming weeks! Find out about Earth Month, lectures, community events!

Dive into ECo’s exciting degrees, environmental study abroad programs, and upcoming external opportunities!

Learn about water scarcity in the Gulf, the dangers of ocean cleanup tech, and exciting upcoming ECo events.

Explore stories about climate change’s impact on birds, discover open opportunities, and find info on our upcoming January ECo Talk

See how the Earth Commons is growing and what we have in store for 2024

Learn about the new undergraduate degree and explore future ECo opportunities

Explore environment events at Georgetown and beyond—plus, new opportunities

Catch a film screening or a climate story, podcast, and read new research from ECo faculty

ECo events are going global with the new MS-EIA and a collaboration with GU-Q, plus ECo in the headlines and new opportunities.

Futures change in the Yucatán, ECoTalks kick of Sept. 1, plus wide-ranging events and opportunities

Announcing the recipients of our ECo Impact Awards, welcoming new ECo faculty and postdocs, and ECo Affiliates in the headlines

Common Home Issue 05 is here! Plus, learn about the Joint Environment & Sustainability Program and check out green jobs and opps

Explore headlines stories about mosquitos, Apollo 11, wildfires, and announcing new ECo jobs

A swimmer helps discover a new marine ecosystem, headlines from the seas, how you can celebrate migratory birds this Spring

Last chance to grab your tickets for Robert Bullard @ Georgetown, plus check out Issue 4 of Common Home and these quick reads from around the world

A new report in Scientific American, winners of our photo showcase, equitable and sustainable power, Robert Bullard @ GU, ECo Breaking Ground Festival

ECo enters earth month with events that explore the intersection of the environment and humanities, plus headlines from ECo faculty and green jobs

Explore Voices on the Environment events, like THE GRAB screening, Amitav Ghosh and more, plus headlines on global treaties and faculty publications

Join us for a thought-provoking artist talk and film, apply for ECo opportunities, and compete in the Common Home photography showcase.

Amazing ECo events; funding; new research from ECO faculty and affiliates and—for the first time—students!

Learn more about our collaboration with the Kennedy Center’s River Run festival, new ECo research, and opportunities in green careers.

Contribute to Common Home magazine, learn about faculty research in the open ocean, and view new jobs at the Earth Commons and beyond.

We Hear You premiers alongside COP27, ECo Faculty Brian Griffiths writes of the Maijuna people of the Peruvian Amazon, and job openings at ECo + more.

Explore headlines, ECo courses around the world, events from our institute and beyond.

Explore recent work from ECo Affiliated Faculty, opportunities to join the ECo team, what we’re reading and events we’re headed to.

Learn about “tipping point” species, respond to a call for climate storytellers, explore ECo climate research, go to the Hoya Harvest Festival & more.

Explore a year of transformation, new Hoya Harvest Garden and Festival, Energy Hackathon and more.

We explore headlines—like the latest UNDP report—take you on the migration of thousands of bird species, and talk green jobs, events and opportunities.

Meet the new faces of the Earth Commons, read fascinating commentary from Georgetown scholars, find opportunities to learn, live & work sustainably.

Explore ECo fellowship recipients, affiliated faculty research updates, Office of Sustainability events, and internship openings.

Announcing the recipients of our ECo Impact Awards and sharing some short summer reads.

Focus on research advancements by our Affiliated Faculty and a new Earth Commons partnership to support Georgetown’s research capacity.

How the Earth Commons is using art to draw people in to share, think and collaborate, in hopes of solving great environmental problems.

Explore Earth Week at Georgetown, learn more about new environment and sustainability research, and transport yourself to far away field trips.