Blog 2 Columns With Frame – Page 6 – Welcome to the Society for Historical Archaeology

October 3, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Heritage in the New U.S. National Nature Assessment – Opportunity for Review of Outline

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A new U.S. environmental assessment is underway – the National Nature Assessment (NNA). To date, the U.S. has published five National Climate Assessments and the sixth is now in preparation. The NNA will join this family, assessing not only what we...

October 1, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: The Ongoing Necessity and Invisibility of Human Behavior in Climate Action

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A compare and contrast today. Carbon Brief has summarized and assessed recent research about the current potential to limit global warming to 1.5℃. Key conclusion is that, in words of one of the authors, “the technological feasibility of climate-neutrality is no...

September 26, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: How to Link Climate and Heritage in Policy (Part 1)

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative New legislation! Which at first glance doesn’t look like heritage legislation but has several historic preservation provisions (hat tip to Preservation Action for noting this). It also doesn’t say it’s climate action but if enacted, it could be. Bill is the...

September 24, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: An Above-Ground View: Climate and Historic Buildings

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Perspective on historic buildings today. This op-Ed from NY state speaks up about adaptive reuse of older buildings, with particular attention to how this allows for maintenance of local architectural character and history. I’m not remotely arguing against this, but this...

September 19, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Present and Past Experience of Wildfire Management

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Two cultural connections here to the growing risks and impacts of wildfire. First, sharing the announcement from the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center that they will be hosting a virtual workshop on September 26, 2024, about Tribal approaches to managing fire...

September 17, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Fighting for Global Equity with the IPCC

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative More here on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with attention to equity and potential impacts on representation of cultural heritage in IPCC reports. The 2015 Paris Agreement calls on its party countries to periodically assess progress they are making...

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