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In the fifth installment of our "Humans of MENV" article series, we feature stories from three students who share what brought them to the MENV program and highlight their favorite parts of living in Boulder. Libby Geboy, Sustainable Food Systems "Anyone who knows me knows that I talk and think...

This Capstone Highlight features the project that MENV students Rachael Blondy, Claire Kendall, Peter Olivares, Leonard Swerdlow completed in partnership with the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office. Titled "A County at a Crossroads: Building the Outdoor Recreation Economy of Moffat County, Colorado", their project aimed to explore the feasibility of...

In the fourth installment of our “Humans of MENV” article series, we feature stories from multiple students that touch on their reasons for coming to MENV, favorite classes from the first semester and how their experiences thus far have impacted potential plans post graduation. Caroline Dickey, Renewable & Sustainable Energy...

Cristina is a 2018 MENV graduate who specialized in Sustainable Planning and Management (now called Urban Resilience and Sustainability). She currently works as the Keep It Clean Partnership Outreach Specialist at Boulder County, a collaboration between partner communities -- Boulder, Longmont, Louisville, Lafayette, and the towns of Erie and Superior,...

Learning about the aeration and clarification steps of the water treatment process While there are many ways to engage in and out of the classroom at MENV, there are a plethora of additional opportunities within Boulder and at CU to dive deeper into your interests, meet new people, and give...

In the third installment of our “Humans of MENV” article series, we feature stories from multiple students that touch on their reasons for choosing MENV and what they've learned in the first few months since starting the program. Jennalee Battson, Environmental and Natural Resources Policy “I was running a brewery...

The CU Boulder Masters of the Environment Program is thrilled to announce our inaugural Diversity Leadership Fellows! From left to right: Ximena Alverde, Cheyenne Fouts, Danielle Furuichi, Tejas Srikanth, Sydney Dynek and Faculty Advisor Colleen Scanlan Lyons. Thank you to the VF Foundation, which aims to drive movements for the...

We’re honored to highlight FrontLine Farming this October for Women’s Small Business Month. FrontLine in its own words is “a food justice and farmer advocacy group led by womxn and BIPOC individuals.” Its Co-founder and Executive Director is Fatuma Emmad. Fatuma not only works with FrontLine and is a professor...

Matt is a 2017 MENV graduate who specialized in Renewable and Sustainable Energy. He currently works as a Senior Transportation Associate at the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), a public-interest organization promoting greater energy efficiency and clean transportation in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. In this alumni...

This article is adapted from William Shutkin’s book “ The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century ," which won the 2001 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association for environmental politics and was a Time Magazine Green Century Recommended Book in 2000. Historically,...