Climate History of Carl Sagan
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative I’m firmly of the opinion that if it is possible to reference or highlight the…
Heritage at Risk
End of an Era, Power of an Arc
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…
Change for Culture and History, Small and Large
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…
COP29 and Building a Vision from Below “Z”
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…
Hurricane Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Plain Archaeological Sites
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…
Micro-Climate Blog: Building Care and Knowledge of Place through Community Archaeology
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…
Micro-Climate Blog: For the Well-Being of Future Generations
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…
Micro-Climate Blog: Ghosts and Glaciers
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.…
Micro-Climate Blog: Water in the West
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…
Micro-Climate Blog: Digging into Emissions from Artificial Intelligence
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…