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SPOTLIGHT: GU Students ‘Get Outside’ in Earth Commons Challenge
The Earth Commons, Georgetown University’s hub for environmental sustainability, launched a month-long Get Outside Challenge encouraging students to spend more time outdoors in…
April 26, 2024
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A lesbian deity gets earthy in ‘Hurricane Diane’ at Georgetown
What happens when a lascivious lesbian has a mission to convert suburban housewives to … the climate-sustainable ways of permaculture? You won’t be able to resist either!…
April 15, 2024
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Georgetown Screens ‘Impossible Town’ Documentary, Hosts DC Environmental Film Festival
The Earth Commons, Georgetown University’s institute for environment and sustainability, and the Film and Media Studies Program jointly presented the 2023 documentary “Impossible…
April 3, 2024
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Food, Culture, and Conservation in Maijuna Lands
This memoir is a creative account of Dr. Brian Griffiths’s research on mammal ecology and conservation conducted in collaboration with the Indigenous Maijuna people of.…
March 15, 2024
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Love & Friendship: Hoyas Who Found Lasting Connections at Georgetown University
Learn about the lasting connections formed through the MS-ESM!…
February 15, 2024
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MIT Professor Highlights Data-Driven Climate Change Research
The weekly ECo Talks seminars bring in leading experts from Georgetown and beyond to discuss timely environmental issues by showcasing their research. Noelle Eckley Selin, an…
February 14, 2024
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Georgetown’s MS-ESM Program Receives Yellow Ribbon Funding To Support Veterans
In an effort to enhance access to educational opportunities for veterans seeking advanced degrees, the M.S. in Environment and Sustainability Management (MS-ESM) program at…
February 7, 2024
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Making the Case: Going Green(er) — How Sustainability Creates Better Business
Georgetown McDonough’s cohort of students in its M.S. in Environment and Sustainability Management program recently completed their capstone projects. Here is a look at three…
December 6, 2023
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$5M gift to endow a faculty chair fuels growth of Earth Commons
Georgetown’s Earth Commons Institute (ECo) received its largest gift to date from an alumna and her husband who live in San Francisco’s Bay Area. The $5 million gift funds a new…
December 4, 2023
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Georgetown Launches Undergraduate Degree on the Environment and Sustainability
Starting in spring 2024, first-year students and sophomores can enroll in the core courses of the Joint Environment & Sustainability Program (JESP) and work toward a bachelor of…
December 1, 2023