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
Guest Post by Matthew Davis, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University “So, what is your research about?” It was a sunny day in July, and I had just sat
Guest Post by Ana María Pérez-Hincapié, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University What comes to your mind when we think of landscapes? Maybe some of us think of natural parks
Guest Post by Julia Choolwe Munsaka, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University Despite being one of the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change, Africa
Guest Post by Chika Winnifred Agha, 2024-2025 Vice President for Research Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University Ben Horowitz’s quote perfectly captures the shift that occurs once theory meets with
Guest Post by Milena Dehn, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University Global sovereign debt burdens have followed a concerning trend in recent years. After a period of decline since the
Guest Post by Kalani Williams, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at Colorado State University Sustainability in a new light The United Nations defines sustainability as “meeting the needs of the
Guest Post by Amy Gill, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University It’s no secret that pollinator species across the US are endangered, but the massive and potentially
Guest Post by Kathy Condon, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University The world is warming, and with that comes more extreme weather, more often.
Guest Post by Kord Dicke, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University The human population recently surpassed 8 billion people and is projected to increase to
Guest Post by Tucker Melles, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Earth’s atmosphere is one of our greatest shared resources and provides many ingredients required for life. We breathe oxygen
Guest Post by Taylor Bacon, 2022-2024 InTERFEWS Fellow, Ph.D. Student in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University On a cool April morning I sat at the breakfast table of a picturesque bed & breakfast outside
Guest Post by Ashley Schilling Hazlett, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Animal Sciences and CSU AgNext at Colorado State University The role of cattle in climate change has been an important topic for decades, sparking
Guest Post by Sylvia Lee, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University What does it mean to eat sustainably? For some, sustainable eating means eating organic. Some
Guest Post by Lexi Firth, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University Soil is more than just dirt beneath our feet; it’s a dynamic, living system that plays
Guest Post by Elizabeth Diaz-Clark, 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University Seeing is Believing What do you picture when you think of climate