In this new analysis, Ben Leffel + @sovacool.bsky.social argue that, "as national-focused orthodoxy in climate policy has proven insufficient to address the climate crisis, a shift is needed, centering cities as pivotal actors in global climate mitigation" -- and I COULD NOT AGREE MORE. Read here:

A senseless blow to a system of international nature, culture and heritage cooperation that the US itself played a leading role in creating as Trump quits ICCROM IUCN IFACCA IPBES & UN Habitat. US already quit UNESCO. Non-federal US actors must fill the gap! web.archive.org/web/20260107...

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

New Orleans culture bearers may be forced out of Musicians’ Village after property sale www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Tomorrow's menu: Sweet potato sage and turkey sausage frittata, crispy hash browns, and berries with coconut whipped cream Then smoked turkey from HEB, greens, beans, brussel sprouts, cornbread and wild rice dressing, mac and cheese, with tapioca pudding and pumpkin pie for dessert.

CHN leaders in Brazil advocated tirelessly for culture-based climate solutions at #COP30. Moussa Elimane Sall took a moment to reflect on his experience with a call to action to leverage this momentum to insist "Climate action without culture is incomplete." www.linkedin.com/pulse/chn-fr...

Starting now: Culture, Heritage, and Climate Change! 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I am not in Brazil but I can gratefully confirm that the @climateheritage.bsky.social team on the ground there is safe. #cop30

This week the event "Culture, Heritage and Climate Change: a look from Latin America" will take place on November 21, at the Amazon Museum (Belém, Para, Brazil)! The meeting will be hybrid with simultaneous translation into English and Spanish. #COP30 🔗 Registration and info: abre.ai/culturapatri...

Culture at the Heart of Climate Action Highlights from Week 1 Members of the Climate Heritage Network are making a powerful impact at #COP30 in Belém. These CHN leaders are showing that heritage and culture are essential for climate resilience, justice, and decarbonization. #climateheritage 1/

In the midst of one of those travel stories where a missed connection means a 24 hour delay - enter a very patient and inventive airline agent et voila, I am in Brazil only a few hours later than my original flight! I was the last person to board the flight from DFW to Sao Paulo 🤪 On to Rio!

Traveling again tomorrow, so please prepare yourselves for photos from rainy Rio and stories about communities empowering the arts, culture, and heritage transforming climate ambitions into actions. Enjoy this pecan pareidolia in the meantime 🤪

Look at this incredible green lynx spider!

Ran some errands this morning to get ready for next week's work travel, then spent some very needed time walking in the rain

Really trying to be a good sport but it's 93° at my daughter's school Muertitos Fest (a sweet local tradition that co-celebrates Day of the Dead and Halloween). Average high is ten degrees cooler. I am melting in the sun and my climate anxiety is out of control.

"a job for the storytellers who shape how we see the world" Couldn't agree more, @sammyroth.bsky.social. I remember the Autopia story, thank you for sharing this personal look behind the scenes. #climateheritage www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/why-writin...

Late to share because of a post-protest headache but the Hay family showed up yesterday! #nokings #sanantonio

We must "act for the right to culture" NOW. Saturday my family will celebrate the opening of a new local museum (funded in part by the NEH) and then march to protest these callous, illegal, and inhumane attacks on our communities and values www.museodelwestside.org

What is at the heart of #WeMakeTomorrow? Our Founder Alison Tickell reminds us why cultural voices matter in the climate conversation. Join artists, artivists & cultural leaders, united in climate action, by signing the Global Call today >> www.wemaketomorrow.global 🎥 credit Yusef Yarmohamed

@climateheritage.bsky.social member Lori Ferriss of Built Buildings Lab came to San Antonio earlier this year to show off the CARE tool for comparing the carbon impact of reuse, retrofits, and new construction. #climateheritage youtu.be/JoN67e6q23I?...

This is another space where culture needs to lead the way to climate solutions. Food ways and practices are important parts of community identity. Rather than be a barrier, we must/will help foster real, lasting change. It's happening and we need to accelerate. @climateheritage.bsky.social

Making sustainable art at Solar Fest in San Antonio today! www.buildsagreen.org/solarfest www.spsatx.org

Recentering this morning after many days away from home. Breathing and practicing gratitude for the experiences and knowledge shared with me in Milwaukee, NYC, and Barcelona.

Window seats make this geographer's heart happy. Heading home to San Antonio!

15 yrs ago I had the privilege of hearing Dr. Jane Goodall address geographers in DC. She explained how preserving cultural practices of indigenous communities also benefitted chimpanzee conservation. #climateheritage She's part of the reason Z's middle name is Jane. May her memory be a blessing.

I have long suspected this truth, and regretfully I must confirm its veracity now that I have met my colleagues in person for the very first time - they are genuinely and unapologetically hilarious.

Culture belongs at the heart of climate action and we will not wait, we will lead as we imagine (and manifest) just, low carbon, climate resilient futures!

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 This is an appreciation post for translators. Your work is crucial in facilitating these international dialogues on climate and culture. I am so grateful for your expertise. That is all. ❤️❤️❤️

The word coal evokes childhood memories of works by Charles Dickens, Frank McCourt, Anna Sewell, Frances Hodgson Burnett - hell, even the movie October Sky - that use it as a marker of poverty, misery, desperation, and squalor. Imagine explaining this news to Oliver Twist.

Yesterday was magical and motivating. Can't wait to share more about the Third High Level Ministerial Dialogue on Culture-based Climate Action - but first, more Barcelona joy!

Good morning Barcelona! Here for @uclg.bsky.social and @unesco.org convenings, of course championing climate action through culture-based solutions with so many of my favorite @climateheritage.bsky.social leaders and other amazing partners! #mondiacult

This week we're off to Barcelona for Mondiacult 2025. As the world’s biggest cultural policy conference, we’ll be amplifying the #WeMakeTomorrow Global Call to a wide array of policy makers, artists, activists & cultural practitioners. Grab yourself a sticker or business card from one of our team.

Encouraged by the work of this extraordinary group of advocates for culture-based climate action! Representing @climateheritage.bsky.social today in NYC 💚

"We are the originators when it comes to recycling and green building, but now we must be the innovators." Thank you Ethiel, Carl, and James Lindberg for your perseverance in carrying forward this critical work, the most important effort our generation will endeavor to achieve.

Listening to fellow travelers muse about why TSA is here at our gate checking IDs again before we board - even here in TX ppl know it's a childish show of force, schoolyard bully tactics of intimidation, unnecessary, fashy. Houston, we have a problem. 😡

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

I'm on my way to #PastForward in Milwaukee! Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. If you're going to be there, let me know - I'm bringing these awesome @climateheritage.bsky.social stickers! And come see me tomorrow afternoon talk about "Old Buildings, New Tricks, Cooler Planet"

Heading to Milwaukee tomorrow for NTHP PastForward - high there is 78° 🥶 It's almost 11 pm and it's 79° on my patio in San Antonio. Packing all of my favorite cardigans lol

The CHN team is in Addis Ababa and you can join them (virtually) for 2 free Africa Climate Summit side events tomorrow! The first is perfect for insomniacs here in North America (2 am central!) and the second is the perfect way to start your week (10 am central ☺️)

In the past few months, NPS interpretive panels have been altered or removed, websites documenting historic sites/stories have been scrubbed, and funding for museums and humanities research has been slashed. 1/ www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

📣 The Climate Heritage Network seeks proposals from qualified individuals and firms to complete a near-term action plan and long-term strategic plan for the organization! Proposals due by September 19. Details here: www.climateheritage.org/press/reques...

Fighting the Sunday scaries by remembering last week featured a kid sick with strep for 3 days and a popped tire on the way to school Friday morning - plus the most caring and understanding colleagues giving me grace and a kind stranger that waited with us for the tow truck. Bring it on, Monday.

Thank you for doing this work, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social. I look forward to hearing your address to the National Trust for Historic Preservation next month - I hope it will result in a more aggressive response to the administration's destructive actions from the org.

Sharing last night's gorgeous sunset to distract myself while waiting for a tow truck to rescue my stranded EV after we popped a tire on the way to school this morning

As a geographer doing deeply interdisciplinary work w/ anthropologists, folklorists, scientists, attorneys, preservationists, economists, historians, culture bearers, community leaders, policymakers, & so many others across this planet we all call home, this is simultaneously absurd & alarming.

🚨🚨🚨 A White House official told Axios that President Trump intends to expand his review of American museums for "woke" ideology beyond the Smithsonian Institution. What historians say is at risk if Trump expands his culture war beyond Smithsonian www.axios.com/2025/08/21/t...

📆 Early registration deadline TOMORROW! The second edition of the International Congress on Culture in Climate Action will be held virtually on September 17, 18, and 19, 2025. More: www.even3.com.ar/e/congreso-i... #climateaction #climateheritage #culture4climate #cop30