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...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...Read More

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

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 with large numbers of large storms, there was an unexpected lull mid-August to mid-September, and then a roar back to life with Hurricane Helene, Hurricane...Read More

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 being hit by stronger and longer-lasting cyclones, which is making their cultivation more difficult. And the forests that host the vanilla-bearing orchids are being cut...Read More

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 issue of climate change and questions of whether and how countries might be held accountable for not taking sufficient action to protect citizens from climate...Read More