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7 Ways To Treat Momma Earth Better on Her Special Day ♡

7 Ways To Treat Momma Earth Better on Her Special Day ♡

By Elizabeth Saunders and Elizabeth Saunders April 18, 2021

GIPHY In honor of Mother's Day. ... Wait no. ... In honor of Earth Day, here is a list of things you can be doing to celebrate your Mom! I mean Earth! Here are some things you can be doing to celebrate...

Undergraduate Launches Clothing Line for Sustainability, Social Justice

Undergraduate Launches Clothing Line for Sustainability, Social Justice

By Casey Ferrante April 15, 2021

Despite harsh Midwest winters, Phillip Catanzaro (COL ’23) has been sporting surf wear both on and off his surfboard year-round since he was a kid. Growing up in Cleveland, Catanzaro spent much of...

VIEWPOINT: Continue Sustainability Beyond Pandemic

VIEWPOINT: Continue Sustainability Beyond Pandemic

By Nathan Sonnenfeld March 25, 2021

As businesses and schools shuttered in March 2020, millions stopped commuting to work. Fewer emissions allowed many city dwellers to once again see the stars. Stories broke across the globe of animals...

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...

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...

PUKAS: Cultivate Sustainable Food Consumption

PUKAS: Cultivate Sustainable Food Consumption

By Annabelle Pukas February 19, 2021

The media often portrays climate change as an inescapable cycle of natural disasters. Intense heat waves and forest fires are followed by hurricanes, heavy rain and mudslides, which in turn are followed...

VIEWPOINT: Ban Single-Use Plastics at Georgetown

VIEWPOINT: Ban Single-Use Plastics at Georgetown

By Valentina Salinas February 12, 2021

The average American will throw away approximately 185 pounds of plastic every year, or  about half a pound of plastic per day.  With multiple states predicted to run out of landfill space...

VIEWPOINT: Cultivate Environmentalism in Business

VIEWPOINT: Cultivate Environmentalism in Business

By Scott Kase January 28, 2021

For far too long, successful business ventures have come at the expense of sustainability and environmental protection. The main critique of business’s environmental impact arises from many companies’...

PUKAS: Reject the Fast Fashion Industry

PUKAS: Reject the Fast Fashion Industry

By Annabelle Pukas September 24, 2020

Fast fashion may appear unassuming, but behind the scenes, the garments necessitate perpetually overworked fields and the mass transformation of crude oil into market-ready forms that leak toxic chemicals...

Students To Vote in Referendum Urging University Fossil Fuel Divestment

Students To Vote in Referendum Urging University Fossil Fuel Divestment

By Grace Buono January 24, 2020

Students will vote on whether or not to support Georgetown University’s divestment from fossil fuel companies by 2024 in a Feb. 6 referendum after the Georgetown University Student Association Senate...

GUSA Senate Sinks Blue Campus Referendum

GUSA Senate Sinks Blue Campus Referendum

By Grace Buono and Jaime Moore-Carrillo January 24, 2020

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate struck down a proposed student referendum that would have granted students the opportunity to designate Georgetown University a Blue Campus at their...

New MBA Certificate Bridges Sustainability and Business

New MBA Certificate Bridges Sustainability and Business

By Harrison McBride January 17, 2020

Select students in the McDonough School of Business’ MBA program began classes for a new certificate program centered around business sustainability this semester.  The certificate in sustainable...

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