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Hoya Harvest Garden Launches at Breaking Ground Festival
Georgetown University’s Earth Commons Institute opened a new garden to provide a resource for students and professors to learn about sustainable. …
April 29, 2023
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SPOTLIGHT: GU Earth Week Celebrates Student Environmentalism
On Friday, the Earth Commons hosted the Breaking Ground Festival to celebrate the launch of a new community garden on the Leavey Center Patio. The festival featured local…
April 26, 2023
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The UN Agreed to a Historic Treaty To Protect Marine Life. Now What?
Marine biologist Rebecca Helm gives her take on what the historic United Nations treaty to protect the high seas means for the fight against climate.…
April 24, 2023
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Hoya Harvest Garden blooms atop Regents
The Hoya Harvest Garden opens on the Regents Hall fourth floor patio this spring, providing food for the local community and a space for students and faculty to learn about…
April 21, 2023
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Georgetown Professor First to Research Chesapeake Bay Dolphins
Janet Mann, a Georgetown professor of biology and psychology, spoke at Georgetown University on March 30 to discuss her 35 years of research on the social networks of bottlenose…
April 13, 2023
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Renowned Author Amitav Ghosh Advocates for Environmental Literature
The lecture was the keynote event in the “Voices on the Environment” series hosted by the Georgetown Earth Commons, and there, Ghosh said that although the story depicted in…
April 13, 2023
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Celebrating Earth Month: A Message from the Office of Sustainability and the Earth Commons
The Office of Sustainability and launching the Earth Commons have a shared mission to cultivate a university culture and practice that becomes the model of positive impact for…
April 3, 2023
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New Georgetown Study Will Investigate Nanoplastics on Animal Health and Development
Environmental exposure to nanoplastics in daily life is very common. Surprisingly, very few studies have attempted to quantify the effect of nanoplastic exposure on animal health…
March 29, 2023
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New Smithsonian Bird Exhibit Takes Flight
Peter Marra, the director of the Earth Commons at Georgetown and a former senior scientist at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, worked on the design of the new Bird House…
March 23, 2023
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UN High Seas Treaty Promotes Ocean Protection
At the conference, Rebecca Helm, a marine biologist who studies jellyfish and other coastal species with the Georgetown University Earth Commons Institute, provided delegates…
March 23, 2023