Dr. Krasny is not accepting new graduate students at this time.
Marianne Krasny's teaching and outreach focuses on climate education and advocacy. In 2026, she launched the Food, Farms, and Climate (free) Substack, where she writes for public audiences about food systems, climate, lifestyle actions, and environmental policy. Each article closes with advocacy actions readers can take to mitigate climate emissions.
Dr. Krasny directs the Cornell Civic Ecology Lab, which explores the connections between community environmental stewardship, individual environmental actions, and wider systemic change. She and Lab members teach online courses for global audiences on climate, environmental, food systems, and biodiversity education and advocacy. Her other outreach activities include translating scientific and social sciences research for climate organizations, including Climate Reality Project, Elders Climate Action, and Climate Action Now.
Dr. Krasny teaches a capstone course on scaling up individual climate action through social networks and social movement organizations. She believes that given the scale of the climate crisis, faculty and students need to take action as part of our teaching and outreach.
Her most recent book, In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis, uses cartoons and layperson’s language to distill the research on how to scale up individual climate action—such as plant-rich diet, reducing food waste, donating to climate organizations, or advocating for climate policies—through social networks and activism. The book features Network Climate Action, or how people can influence their close-tie networks (friends, family, colleagues) to take climate actions alongside them.
Dr Krasny’s other books include Grassroots to Global: Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology; Advancing Environmental Education Practice; Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up (with K Tidball), Urban Environmental Education Review (with A Russ), and Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators (with A Armstrong and J Schuldt). Dr Krasny was director of EPA’s North American Environmental Education Training Program and the Garden Mosaics community gardening education program, a Forbes News contributor, and a Public Voices Fellow. She is an International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.
Recent Research
Li, Y, RF Kizilcec, JY Cho, and ME Krasny. 2025. Effects of accountability interventions on environmental educators’ engagement in MOOCs. Online Learning 29 (4), 25–5. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504622.2014.989961
Armstrong, A, and ME Krasny. 2025. Developing positive identities and resisting stigma on the Bronx River: an environmental stewardship story. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-025-01007-6
Dominguez Contreras, E and ME Krasny. 2022. Young Children Contribute to Nature Stewardship. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.945797
Krasny, ME, Y Li, D Gonzales, and A Sims Bartel. 2021. E-Engagement: Approaches to using digital communications in student-community engagement. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement: 25(4):21. https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/jheoe/article/view/1727
Lee, E. and Krasny, M.E. 2021. The role of local people for collaborative management of Korean village groves. Sustainability Science: 16, 1017–1028. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00919-w
Li Y and ME Krasny. 2021. Relationship between networks and practice change in environmental education. Journal of Environmental Education. DOI: 10.1080/00958964.2021.1899107
Daneri, D. R., M. E. Krasny and R. C. Stedman. 2021. Place-based Identity and Framing in Local Environmental Politics. Review of Policy Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12415
Jorgensen, B, ME Krasny and J Baztan. 2020. Volunteer beach cleanups: civic environmental stewardship combating global plastic pollution. Sustainability Science. 10.1007/s11625-020-00841-7
