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By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative In 2012, as the Obama administration was stepping up its attention to climate change, I was advised to come up with an idea to have in my “back pocket” if the Secretary of the Interior wanted to do something splashy, something high profile but also, hopefully, meaningful. At the time, I was serving with the National...Read More

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Last week’s White House-led freeze on US federal funding has been halted – for now. Its stated targets were “Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies” (featured link below). It feels important to point out here – programs for cultural resources, heritage, and archaeology were on the list for review. Rapid reporting by...Read More

  By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative To start- if you’ve lost your home in a wildfire and it held cremains that you weren’t able to take with you- contact the Alta Heritage Foundation (Alta). They’re archaeologists who have developed methods of recovering cremains from the ashes of homes. They are a non-profit, and recovery is done at no cost to the...Read More

  By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A recent global-scale survey by the UN Development Program (UNDP) found that far more people around the world want action on climate change than those that don’t. Eighty-six (86) percent want their governments to work together on climate despite differences on other issues, more than 50% think about climate change daily or weekly, and similarly...Read More

  By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative In late October of this year, the Svalbard Seed Vault in northern Norway received its largest deposit to date, approximately 30,000 new samples. The Seed Vault is a gene bank, holding seeds from around the world against a range of catastrophes, including climate disasters and other human-caused events. In this way it’s safeguarding genetic heritage...Read More