HUMANnature is an evolving communications project of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability designed to aggregate and promote environmental science communication across the Colorado State University campus and beyond. The site is designed to provide a platform for students, faculty, research partners, and guests to communicate and discuss the pressing environmental, economic, and societal issues of sustainability and our future.
Rising Seas: Challenges and Solutions for Coastal Communities
Guest Post by Mohamed Abdelhafez, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University The Challenge of Sea Level Rise
Plains Fish: Anything but Plain
Guest Post by Samuel Lewis, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University Unexpected Parallels While the Great
Flames vs. Frameworks: Sustaining Lumber Supply Through Wildfire Challenges and Climate Change
Guest Post by Srijesh Pradhan, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Construction Management and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University
The United States of Highways: Beyond Vehicles, Asphalt, and Concrete
Guest Post by Fawzi Khalife, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Construction Management at Colorado State University
Would you buy my deconstructed house?
Guest post by Carla Galvanoni, Interior Designer and LEED Green Associate On a recent construction site visit to Chicago, I nearly tripped and took a header into a pile of
Energy transition and social sciences – How can environmental sociology help us expand the understanding of energy transitions?
Guest Post by Emilia Ravetta, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University The 2023 was the warmest year on record of
Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?
Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. D. Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University As the urgent need to take tough action
Soil carbon sequestration has to look beyond the field to be effective
Guest Post by Sam Leuthold, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. D. Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado
Catching Colias: A day in the life of a field ecologist
Guest Post by Lily Durkee, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Agricultural Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University My first
Out of sight, out of mind: The vulnerable world beneath our feet
Guest Post by Alex Siggers, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University “We could
Vermin or vital: The complex case of the prairie dog.
Guest Post by Maksim Sergeyev, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Colorado Natural Heritage Program at Colorado State University Vermin or vital: The complex case of the
Machine Learning and the Future of Sustainability Science
Guest Post by Sabari Kumar, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University It seems like you can’t go more than a
Too extreme to be true? The links between extreme weather and climate change
Guest Post by Alyssa Stansfield, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University From heat waves sweltering in Brazil [1] to
Smoke & Mirrors: Wildfire Smoke Beyond the Source
Guest Post by MJ Riches, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Do Orange Skies Spell Demise? What was once a
The Missing Piece of the Renewable Energy Revolution
Guest Post by Ben Platt, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University There is a renewable energy revolution happening all
Saving the planet one plate at a time
Guest Post by Huma Tariq, 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University Growing up in an indigenous mountain
Fieldwork and fashion: Designing the ecologist’s uniform
Guest Post by Mary Linabury, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University I’m a scientist,
Where’d the wood go? The importance of wood in rivers and how we can learn to appreciate it
Guest Post by Emily Iskin, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University Around the globe, rivers were once full of wood.
Using Clouds to Fight Climate Change
Guest Post by Kathryn Moore, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned
What’s the beef: How European Trade Restrictions Threaten one of the most Ambitious Wildlife Conservation Endeavors of our Time
Guest Post by Coby McDonald, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology and Department of Biology at Colorado State University If you’re
Living in the wilderness edge: A dream came true?
Guest Post by Clara Mosso, 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University