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Georgetown Students, Professors Revitalize Conservation Center in Kenya

Georgetown Students, Professors Revitalize Conservation Center in Kenya

By Nina Raj September 15, 2022

A group of Georgetown undergraduates and professors helped rebuild an educational visitor center in the Diani Beach region of Kenya this summer. The center was built under the jurisdiction of Colobus...

Greener and Greater: GU Earth Week Promotes Sustainability

Greener and Greater: GU Earth Week Promotes Sustainability

By Elyza Bruce April 21, 2022

By noon it was sunny, and Red Square was predictably bustling with students excited about the weekly Georgetown University Farmers Market, where several local vendors come to sell food — including empanadas,...

COMMUNITY CORNER: What is an “Earth Commons”? We Asked the Director.

COMMUNITY CORNER: What is an “Earth Commons”? We Asked the Director.

By Amna Shamim March 4, 2022

https://soundcloud.com/multimedia-editor/earth-commons-podcast-final-03032022-1415/s-6YsmeLWt5vu?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing On this episode of “Community...

PODCAST: Core Pathways students discuss their podcast series “Pathways for People and Planet”

PODCAST: Core Pathways students discuss their podcast series “Pathways for People and Planet”

By Mia Rasamny February 25, 2022

https://soundcloud.com/multimedia-editor/final-core-pathways/s-JWIUYopWb6B?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Candice Powers (COL '22) and Cleo Gates (COL '22)...

Lack of Transparency Perpetuates Community Uncertainty on Divestment, Sustainability Progress

Lack of Transparency Perpetuates Community Uncertainty on Divestment, Sustainability Progress

By Sahana Arumani and Neala Sweeney December 3, 2021
Despite Georgetown’s commitment to divest their endowment from fossil fuels by 2030, a lack of transparency on their progress has led to concern from student advocates.
PUKAS: Reduce Microplastic Waste

PUKAS: Reduce Microplastic Waste

By Annabelle Pukas April 23, 2021

Over the last few years, the world’s plastic problem has garnered a lot of public attention; in one incident, a viral video of a marine conservation biologist pulling a straw from a sea turtle’s nose...

CHAUHAN, GRANATO & BOATWRIGHT: Develop Sustainability Plan for Georgetown

CHAUHAN, GRANATO & BOATWRIGHT: Develop Sustainability Plan for Georgetown

Georgetown University desperately needs a coherent and comprehensive sustainability plan. To ensure its success, we need students to be involved every step of the way. Georgetown has the potential...

RICKERT: Invest in Climate Change Education

RICKERT: Invest in Climate Change Education

By Katelyn Rickert March 5, 2021

If the United States had taken decisive actions to prevent the spread of coronavirus when it was first discovered here, such as mandatory mask-wearing and social distancing, the country’s total number...

PUKAS: Reduce Health Care’s Environmental Impact

PUKAS: Reduce Health Care’s Environmental Impact

By Annabelle Pukas March 5, 2021

The health care industry is designed to keep people healthy, but in order to prevent irreparable damage to the health of the planet and everyone on it, the industry must assume responsibility and take...

GU Ranked Nation’s Top Renewable Energy Campus in New Environmental Nonprofit Report

GU Ranked Nation’s Top Renewable Energy Campus in New Environmental Nonprofit Report

By Grace Buono September 2, 2020

Georgetown University ranks first among the nation’s colleges and universities in renewable electricity use, according to an Aug. 19 report published by the national environmental advocacy group Environment...

Student Projects Awarded GU Sustainability Grants

By Sana Rahman May 14, 2019

Eleven projects, including at least two Georgetown student-led initiatives, will receive a total of $300,000 in university grants to aid their work addressing local and global sustainability problems for...

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New Environmental Initiative Director Appointed, Seeks to Translate Research into Action

By Rachel Friedman April 11, 2019

Peter Marra, a leading researcher at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, has been named director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative, the university announced in a news release April 3....

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