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.
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 – a sector responsible for
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 from sci-fi movies and artwork,
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 am a PhD Candidate in
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 effects, does not receive anywhere
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. Love. It. I think I
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, ferocious, hard, and resilient are
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 Colorado State University “Within crisis,
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 has become commonplace within sustainability
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 have all witnessed the consequences
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 day, maybe your windows are
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 Ecology The foodie’s dilemma There
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 commodify land and agriculture on
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 Program in Ecology Are you
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 is well-known for advancing the
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 Program in Ecology Have you
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 at first glance these numbers
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 in Ecology, and Natural Resource
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 many facets of American life,
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 scientists in local government? This
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 more and more, and we
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 electric car. Hang-dry clothes. Fly