10 AM-11 AM
Connecting on Climate: A Conversation between Georgetown’s Main and Doha Campuses
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
RSVP Required: Register HERE (space is limited and restricted to the Georgetown community)
Please join us for a virtual discussion on how our respective campuses are thinking about and
addressing the challenges we face related to climate change. This session will feature brief
student presentations on campus efforts to address climate change, as well as opportunities for
small group discussions with students, faculty, and staff from both campuses.
Student speakers:
Main campus- Brooke Hodge (SFS ’24), co-President of GREEN
Doha campus- Ilgar Gapagov (’24), Founder and President of the Technology Club
11AM – 2PM
Acting on Climate: Info and Activities Fair at the Farmer’s Market
Location: Georgetown University Red Square- Farmer’s Market
Grab a bite to eat and learn about campus organizations and projects that are working to
address climate change and perhaps find some opportunities to take action.
Featuring: 1) GUSA’s DC Federal Relations club 2) GREEN’s
education branch: sustainable agriculture 3) GREEN’s bee
team 4) GREEN’s zero waste team 5) Earth Commons: ECo Art 6) Citizens Climate Lobby 7)
Office of Sustainability
6PM- 7PM
Action on Our Campuses: Highlights from DC Colleges and Universities
Location: George Washington University
RSVP required:
Register HERE for in-person attendance
Register HERE for virtual participation
This unique event will bring together students, faculty, and staff from across the DC area to
highlight various initiatives and efforts to address climate change on our campuses. This will be
an opportunity to learn from and inspire each other to take action. The session will feature brief
presentations from students at each university and opportunities for cross-campus dialogue.
Participating Universities: American, Catholic, Gallaudet, Georgetown, George Mason, George
Washington, Howard, Trinity, and UDC
Student speaker from Georgetown: Laura Rockefeller- Citizens Climate Lobby
Earth Commons’ ECo ArtWalk
The “Environmental Graphiti—The Art of Climate Change” installation across campus—including in the Lau, Regents, and Car Barn—interprets graphic climate science data as abstract images, illustrating the science behind the critical changes impacting our planet.
Location: Lauinger Library, Regents Hall, Car Barn
Story Maps Project: Campus Highlights
This project highlights efforts at Georgetown to address the challenges of climate change. Click here for Georgetown’s Story Map
Student Gallery on Climate Change In partnership with the Core Pathway on Climate Change, this gallery will be a distributed collection of student work covering a broad range of forms ranging from visual arts to short stories. All of the student work in the collection will be organized around 6 core themes (overpopulation, what about nuclear?, injustice in daily life, oceans, extreme weather events, and doubt as a tool) and their relationship to climate change. The student work will be featured in a handful of locations across the Georgetown University campus.
Location: Lauinger Library
DC Climate Convergence – April 1st
Location: Crampton Auditorium, Howard University
This event will bring students, faculty, and staff from DC colleges and universities for a conversation about what we can collectively do to address the climate challenges facing us.
3-4pm: Panel discussion on university efforts to address climate change (featuring university/college administrators from each campus)
Featured speaker from Georgetown: Dan Guilbeault, Director of Sustainability for Campus & Community at Georgetown
4-5pm: Keynote speakers- Bill McKibben (founder, Third Act) and Kari Fulton (climate justice advocate)
This is a ticketed (free) event. Please register HERE (Georgetown University only, limit 2 tickets per registration). You must be able to pick up the tickets in person on campus the week of Mar. 28-April 1. Details provided upon registration.