Humboldt Environmental Studies Digest & Blog

  Hello ENST and E&C Community! Hope you did something amazing on Earth Day last week. There was a lot going on... We have 10 transfer students just added to our listserv, so welcome to them! This is our weekly digest of information from the Department chair about the events happening on and around campus, to keep us all connected and informed. In other exciting news, so far we have 63 confirmed new students coming to ENST in the fall! This is almost double our usual number, and that's just HUGE news. Congratulations to the peer mentors for their call campaign and all the help they and other students gave at the Spring Preview tabling event. Thanks again to Meridith Oram and Mark Baker for all their work onboarding and recruiting. It's so amazing to have such a great team. 'Tis the season for celebration! Let's keep this vibe going... One way that the white supremacist patriarchal colonial-capitalist ethos of never-enough-ness shows up in all of us (I'm guessin...

Good evening, all!  What rain we've been having. I'm writing as the sun shines through some trees near my house and am reminded of my intense gratitude for rain, after having lived in some pretty dry places, and for its end, after having lived in Juneau, Alaska, where it rains a whole lot more than it does here. And then I remember how much I love spring in Humboldt. Hope you are loving this too. Happy Earth Week, and check out the Sustainability Newsletter  here  for all the happenings.  Apologies for missing last week's digest- I was with my kiddos for their spring break, and was out of commission.   Advising season is fully in swing now, and many of you have already registered. A huge thanks to our Peer Mentors, Kim and Delaney, and Meridith Oram, our ENST professional and academic adviser, for their extraordinary work getting everybody advised. Thanks to Dr. Mark Baker, Krissi, Grace, and Dr. Rosemary Sherriff for holding down the tent in my absence las...

  Hello and Happy Advising Season! The top part of this message is about advising stuff in ENST.  You'll find all the usual announcements below.  If you do nothing else, please read the incredible poem at the bottom, which won the Environmental Justice Award in Toyon Literary Magazine this year. ENST sponsors this award each year and we are amazed by Larissa's talent. Toyon is celebrating its 68th volume tomorrow- join the party! Toyon Literary Magazine Release Party March 29, 2022 Toyon is Cal-Poly Humboldt’s English department’s annual literary magazine and they are thrilled to announce the release of Volume 68 with the theme of “Hope and Healing”. The magazine features prose, poetry, visual art, and spoken word, Volume 68 is a collection of works created by a diverse pool of talented people from all over the world. With this new volume, diversity and inclusion continue to be celebrated by including multi-national authors and their works along with trans...