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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...

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...

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...

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now taking nominations for authors for its upcoming special report on Climate Change and Cities (SR Cities). Nominations are made through national IPCC focal points; in the US, the IPCC focal point is...

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Welcome to Micro-Climate, the new small-size climate blog series from the Society for Historical Archaeology! This blog series is part of the Society for Historical Archaeology’s (SHA) new Climate Heritage Initiative (CHI), which has the twin goals of growing capacity to...

By Laura Seifert, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Savannah, Georgia Work began on Fort Pulaski in 1829, but before one brick could be laid, a complex ditch and dike system was dug to engineer Cockspur Island from a marshy hammock into solid ground that could support the massive brick fort. In fact, it would be several...