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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 featured...Read More

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. One...Read More

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...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...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,...Read More