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.
A Curious Catalyst for Creativity in Social-Ecological Research
Guest Post By Anna Clare Monlezun, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University
Are We Still In? Reflections from the 26th United Nations International Climate Negotiations
Guest Post By Sarah Whipple, 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and the Graduate Degree Program
Fighting food insecurity with food waste
Guest Post by Annika Weber, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program An estimated
How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges
Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program The current ecological condition in
Recognizing the Rights of a River: Challenges and Opportunities from Colombia to Colorado
Guest Post by Curtis Kline, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program In 2014 the Whanganui River
Carbon isn’t bad
Guest Post by Ellie Ellis, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program Carbon isn’t bad.
The Bottom Line: Are incentives enough to offset the costs of “carbon-smart” farming practices?
Guest Post by Lisa Eash, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program What if agriculture
Orange glow and plants below: Wildfire smoke’s impact on crops
Guest Post by Kimberley Corwin, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program My mind turns to images
Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally
Guest Post By Benjamin Choat, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program. Author Background I
The Importance of Nitrogen Footprints
Guest Post by Megan Pierson, Undergraduate Student in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Nitrogen pollution, despite wide reaching and severe environmental and health
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