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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 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

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, and values and perspectives that underlie them.  Archaeological connections to this story also have many...Read More

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, and the landscape around them combined can share:  lives and experiences of those not included...Read More

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 Crisis (FAR), has completed training of its first class of Ukrainian first aiders for protection...Read More