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The Colorado Environmental Justice Digital Storytelling Project is a partnership with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to , which are used to better understand the environmental challenges communities face and which communities and people are disproportionately impacted by environmental crises. The pilot’s impact was published in the . The lab is expanding the scope of this partnership through student interns, workers and fellows. For a two-page summary of this project and what we’re working on now, click here.

Tune into the , which discusses the ways environmental and climate justice advocacy are motivated by, express and foster care. Publicly launched in 2022, this podcast offers listeners the chance to learn from people who have made headlines for their successful storytelling, organizing and thinking about plastics, climate, social justice and much more. This show became the basis of the director’s award-winning book, (University of California Press, 2023). The podcast continues to interview a range of advocates and experts.

AS Lab sometimes partners with organizations such as and to amplify their grassroots expertise and co-create stories as part of our Imagining Just Transitions initiatives. The lab’s director contributed to on how journalists around the world might improve storytelling on this vital topic, as well as helped establish criteria for the . The Director also regularly publishes with an interdisciplinary group of scholars on climate injustices, especially as climate disaster planning can address carceral infrastructure.

nting plastic pollution is one of the SAS Lab’s project areas. In addition to the podcast and award-winning book, we work with students, staff and faculty across campus on solutions to reducing plastic waste. For more resources on advocacy against plastic pollution, check out these and links about the plastics-industrial complex, as well as  on plastics, environmental and disability justice, & care. We have been proud supporters of reducing single-use plastics on campus and on , the campus began a ten-year pouring rights contract committing !��

International and interdisciplinary networks for environmental communication research and publishing. The SAS Lab Director teaches undergraduate courses on environmental communication and climate justice storytelling. She co-directs and teaches the foundational course of the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Justice. Pezzullo also coedits a book series at University of California Press titled , edits the journal and in Fall 2025, published the 7th edition of her coauthored textbook . Follow us on .��

Creative Climate Communication Consulting and Capacity Building happens through interlocking directorate organizations, such as the Buckley Center, and C3BC. We have co-facilitated trainings for arctic scientists, climate scientists, educators, government employees, engineers, journalists and media creatives. For the , Pezzullo facilitated a peer review process by fourth-graders for fourth-graders. In 2022 Climate Across the Curriculum Training, Pezzullo served as the lead faculty coordinator. Through this network, students in the SAS Lab can develop what the Carnegie Foundation calls “.”����