Guest post by Christina Welch, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University Right now, at the beginning of winter on Colorado’s Western Slope, the peach orchards look
Guest Post by Kaiya Tamlyn, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University Being human can feel incredibly overwhelming these days. We are experiencing overlapping environmental crises like
Guest Post by Erin Jackson, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and 2022 InTERFEWS Fellow at Colorado State University Agricultural systems are under increasing demand to
Guest Post by Lauren Magliozzi, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State University On a chilly October morning in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, shallow pools of
Guest Post by Scott Wrigley, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University Growing up in the 90s, I remember Beanie Babies, Game Boys, Tamagotchis, dial-up internet, and
Guest Post by Jacob VanderRoest, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University The 2024 Alexander Mountain Fire was the first wildfire that I ever saw. On July 29th, 2024, I stood
Agricultural practices, from farm-scale management to landscape-scale decisions, have a significant impact on biodiversity. They can either sustain and restore (agro)ecosystems or contribute to the ongoing extinction crisis. At the same time, both food production and biodiversity conservation face growing
This Collaboratory aims to establish a cross-campus community of practice (CoP) at CSU to enhance awareness of mass timber. The Collaboratory conversations will cover various aspects of mass timber, including its impact on forest health, design and construction, manufacturing, project
Our Collaboratory explores humans’ long-term relationship to Western lands; we will identify and evaluate historical attitudes, ideas, and land practices that have the potential to sustain western U.S. land health and productivity in the face of accelerating climate change. We
The EST-Collaboratory welcomes CSU faculty and researchers across disciplines to participate in collaborative exploration of and early-stage ideation around critical sustainability challenges at the intersection of the Environment, Society, and Technology (EST) related to technological interventions such as AI and