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November 21, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Climate History of Carl Sagan

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative I’m firmly of the opinion that if it is possible to reference or highlight the work of Carl Sagan, one should do that. This thoughtful piece by the Climate Historian brings together Sagan’s well known work in the public sharing...

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

End of an Era, Power of an Arc

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative At the end of September this year, an historic point was reached: England turned off its last coal-fired power plant, ending a 142-year history of coal-fired power in the country. There are many dynamics at work in this story. In the...

November 14, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Change for Culture and History, Small and Large

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative There’s been a change at Lake Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: a 114-year old historical marker set on top of the last burial mound in the area has been taken down. This is a good thing. Several factors led to the removal....

November 12, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

COP29 and Building a Vision from Below “Z”

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative This week the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) begins in Azerbaijan. The COP29 Parties also are now one year into the first “stocktake” of their progress under the Paris Agreement, and Micro-Climate...

November 8, 2024ByNicole GrinnanHeritage at Risk0

Hurricane Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Plain Archaeological Sites

By Allyson Ropp, Historic Preservation Archaeological Specialist As I write this, North Carolina faces a long road of recovery in its western reaches. Hurricane Helene sped through the west, dumping several feet of rain and generating a thousand-year flood event. This was a mere week after the southeastern portion of North Carolina also faced a...

November 7, 2024ByNicole GrinnanClimate Heritage Initiative, Heritage at Risk0

Micro-Climate Blog: Building Care and Knowledge of Place through Community Archaeology

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative On the coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver, a community archaeology project is bringing together First Nations members and non-Indigenous residents around a shared care for the history of the place in which they live. As Tla’amin Elder Betty Wilson...

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