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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 has reached its 10th week, so I’m going to do a small stocktake of purpose...Read More

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 massive flood event, caused by a random low-pressure system off the coast. These events wrecked...Read More

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 says, settling land claims and territorial recognition are important to First Nations, but projects such...Read More

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 Wales A more equal Wales A Wales of cohesive communities A Wales of vibrant culture...Read More

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 West Antarctica feel appropriate for today on both accounts.  My feature story today is a...Read More