Guest post by Chika Winnifred Agha, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and longer dry seasons are no longer distant climate projections; they are everyday realities for farmers
Guest post by Christian Sewor, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and PhD Student in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences Household Air Pollution and the Path That Shaped My Work: A Return to Why As my doctoral journey slowly
Guest post by Haihui Zhu, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Atmospheric Science “A powerful storm kicked up a towering wall of dust that rolled through metro Phoenix on Monday (Aug. 25, 2025), darkening the
Guest post by Nicholas Parker, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) Colorado’s mountain tops are a desolate place. If you were
Guest post by Maggie Church, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and PhD Student in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Wetlands have always been easy to overlook. For much of American history, wetlands have
Guest post by Thomas Gifford, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Economics and Center for New Energy Economy Last week, I ventured from Fort Collins down to the Land of Enchantment to learn about the latest
Guest post by Anson Call, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. It’s barely noon, but the sun glows like a dim traffic light. The air tastes
Guest post by Taylor Bacon, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Soil & Crop Sciences It feels like a particularly hard time to care about the planet, and as a reader of this blog, I’m
Guest post by Megan Podolinsky, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Picture this: It’s mid-summer in western Kansas. You’re walking through a dry field, the
Guest post by Joshua Oluwatumise, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Systems Engineering Three years ago, I stepped on a weight scale, and the number I saw pushed me to make a life-changing decision. Over
Guest post by Erin (Lexi) Sherman, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science Last year, my New Year’s resolution was to read more. I used to be an avid reader, but being in an
Guest post by Cassandre Venumière Lefebvre, 2025-2026 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology I am driving along the highway through Wyoming and can only send quick glances eastward. Out of the
Guest post by Claudia Fernanda Martinez, Master’s Student, Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship Growing up in a Mexican household, I was always confused by the contradictory aspect of men being the head of the household, yet women would be
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