Micro-Climate Blog: Hurricanes and History
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative The 2024 hurricane has been an unusual one. Predicted in the spring to be highly active…
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Micro-Climate Blog: Because Heritage Isn’t Remotely Plain Vanilla
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Flavor, memory, and words are all connected here. The tropics where vanilla beans are warming and…
Micro-Climate Blog: Climate, Heritage, and Human Rights
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Is protection from climate change a human right? The International Court of Justice taking up the…
Micro-Climate Blog: Ongoing Challenges of Relevance in Climate Education
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative At the university level, attention to climate change as a field of study is increasing. As…
Micro-Climate Blog: Heritage in the New U.S. National Nature Assessment – Opportunity for Review of Outline
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A new U.S. environmental assessment is underway - the National Nature Assessment (NNA). To date, the…
Micro-Climate Blog: The Ongoing Necessity and Invisibility of Human Behavior in Climate Action
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative A compare and contrast today. Carbon Brief has summarized and assessed recent research about the current…
Micro-Climate Blog: How to Link Climate and Heritage in Policy (Part 1)
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative New legislation! Which at first glance doesn’t look like heritage legislation but has several historic preservation…
Micro-Climate Blog: An Above-Ground View: Climate and Historic Buildings
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Perspective on historic buildings today. This op-Ed from NY state speaks up about adaptive reuse of…
Micro-Climate Blog: Present and Past Experience of Wildfire Management
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Two cultural connections here to the growing risks and impacts of wildfire. First, sharing the announcement…
Micro-Climate Blog: Fighting for Global Equity with the IPCC
By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative More here on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with attention to equity and potential…