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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

  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...Read More

  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...Read More

  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...Read More

  By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative An array of new signs has been added to British Sign Language (BSL) to convey climate change and associated issues such as greenhouse gasses, tipping points, and sustainability. Each is a creation that is more than finger spelling or compilations...Read More

By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative Efforts are underway to rewild Ireland. While Ireland is known for the abundant and green vegetation its rainfall supports, recent assessments are showing this lushness is not equivalent to biodiversity and ecosystem health. Some rewilding work is now underway to try...Read More

  By Marcy Rockman, Lifting Rocks Climate and Heritage Consulting, for the SHA Climate Heritage Initiative One of the superpowers of historical archaeology is its capacity to take stories we think we know well and give us new perspectives on them. One of the dangers of climate change is that it is removing this capacity out...Read More

  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 work of Carl Sagan, one should do that.  This thoughtful piece by the Climate Historian brings together Sagan’s well known work in the public sharing...Read More