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By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative In 2015, the country of Wales passed its Well-Being of Future Generations Act with the purpose of improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales. The Act sets out seven goals: A prosperous Wales A resilient Wales A healthier...

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative There are traditions that say Halloween is when the separation between worlds is at its thinnest. Now it is a time of ghosts and ghouls and scary things that can go bump in the night. Stories of melting of glaciers in...

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Water in the American West is a many-layered story. This piece from TIME contrasts and compares the water experiences of the Diné across the Navajo Reservation and communities of Washington County in southern Utah across issues of water rights, water realities,...

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative One of the many unique capabilities of archaeology is its capacity to make visible things and patterns that otherwise are hard to see. These of course include objects and other remains that are buried; they also include what those objects, remains,...

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Sharing news in support of heritage in Ukraine. The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, commonly known as ICCROM, based in Rome, through their program First Aid and Resilience  for Heritage in Times of...

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative The 2024 hurricane has been an unusual one. Predicted in the spring to be highly active with large numbers of large storms, there was an unexpected lull mid-August to mid-September, and then a roar back to life with Hurricane Helene, Hurricane...