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.
Seeing the forest through the trees: explaining Random Forest models through my love of chocolate
Guest Post By Michael Cheeseman, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University I love chocolate.
A journey of a plant biologist: Back to the wild to solve current crises.
Guest Post By Janak Joshi, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University Natural,
Mental Health Crisis Among Graduate Students Makes Academia Unsustainable
Guest Post By Alex Mauro, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at
Reflections on locating social science in sustainability research and practice collaborations
Guest Post By James Hale, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University Interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral work
Bridging the Barriers Roads Pose to Wildlife
Guest Post By Rebecca Cheek, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology We
Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant
Guest Post By Erin Boedicker, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry You’re driving down the road on a beautiful
Moving beyond climate ‘silver bullets’ in agriculture
Guest Post By Shelby McClelland, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Graduate Degree Program in
Native Land Information System and Food-System Transition Index: Supporting Sustainable Land Planning on US Native Land Through GIS Innovation
Guest post by Aude Chesnais, Senior Researcher for the Native Lands Advocacy Project and SoGES Visiting Fellow Since colonization, 200 years of institutional efforts to
Technology Keeps Conservation Going Amid the Pandemic
Guest Post By Nathan Han, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and the Graduate Degree
Thinking Intersectionally about Food Systems and Carceral Systems in the US during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Guest Post By Carrie Chennault, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistics Legal scholar and critical race theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw
Can We Have Sustainability and Eat Beef Too?
Guest Post By Kristin Davis, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and the Graduate Degree
Telling stories with data
Guest Post By Zachary Labe, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric Science I work with millions of numbers. While
Returning to our roots in agriculture requires a shift in our thinking
Guest Post By Laura van der Pol, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Graduate Degree Program
On Minimizing Loss
Guest Post By Zane Martin, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric Science 2020 was a year of loss. In
Barriers Scientists Face Engaging with Policy
Guest Post By Clara Tibbetts, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry Do you see a space for students and
Predicting the Future of Sustainability
Guest Post By Cassidy Jackson, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry With every passing year climate change affects us
One Weird Trick for Saving the Planet
Guest Post By Pascal Jundt, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Physics Recycle. Turn down the air conditioning. Buy an
Welcome to Jurassic Park: Can genetically modified mosquitoes create a healthier and more sustainable future?
Guest Post By Lyndsey Gray, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology When I was a kid,
How to Talk With Your Family About Contentious Environmental Issues Over the Holiday Season 101
Guest Post By Danielle Lin Hunter, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
A Smart Phone Application for Monitoring Air Pollution
Guest Post By Lauren Hoskovec, 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Statistics The air we breathe has a great impact
Reading a vertical landscape: the collaboration between climbers and biologists that is seeing bat conservation through a different perspective
Guest post by Robert Schorr, Director of Climbers for Bat Conservation Periodically, I peek out into the void where there is a 300-foot vacancy