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By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Greenland and the US Dept. of Education have been in the news recently, linked by expressions of intent from the US executive for acquisition and dismantling respectively. But new archaeological research has brought together evidence of a deeper bond between the...

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...

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...

  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...

  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...

  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...