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

Up early for the @climateheritage.bsky.social and feeling inspired. The leadership of this organization continues to amaze me with its commitment to putting CULTURE at the heart of #climateaction.

Struggling to find the words to describe how heartbroken I am for my central TX community. My daughter and so many of her friends attend summer camps in the Hill Country, just like my husband and I did when we were kids here. www.tpr.org/2025-07-04/k...

Looking for an opportunity - seriously, just one small glimmer of hope - to take MEANINGFUL ACTION and make a difference right now? (I know I am) Sign on to this Position Paper on indicators for culture for the Global Goal on Adaptation #sb62 #cop30 #bonnbabybonn #climateaction #unfccc

Cenizo, with its soft silver leaves and showy lavender blooms, aka the barometer bush. Let's hope this beauty I spotted today is a harbinger of more rain for west and central Texas tonight and tomorrow #txwx @bexarcosw.bsky.social

Made it home from a week of work travel just in time to vote. San Antonio woke up to good news this morning - Gina Ortiz Jones will be our next mayor! www.tpr.org/government-p...

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We're setting up a tool library in south San Antonio right now! Paired with great programming - free / low cost hands-on training led by professionals with decades of experience in building trades and access to salvaged materials www.sareuse.com/mic

🌍 EARTH DAY EVENT 2025 🌍 📄 Youth Voices for Climate Action & Cultural Heritage: A Virtual Dialogue ✨ Join @climateheritage.bsky.social & #YOUNGO for an online, youth-led conversation on climate action & cultural heritage 🌿🏛 🗓 April 22, 2025 🕙 10:00 AM CEST 🔗 Register: bit.ly/42MTiUC

Today I found joy in my garden, where the first delicate white jasmine flowers have begun to open, and in my fragrant kitchen, where red beans, veggies, garlic, and thyme are softly simmering before supper.

CHN Field Notes from March: 🌱 @iclei.org and @africa.iclei.org announce the first Race to Resilience Culture cohort! 🌟 @preservinglegacies.bsky.social kicks off HACA Community Leaders Circle across the US & Togo! 🏙️ Built Buildings Lab advocates for heritage based decarbonization at GlobalABC!

For an ongoing reporting project: If you work at a university and your research is threatened by federal funding pauses, cuts, or investigations, please get in touch, my DMs are open and my Signal handle is in my bio.

Letting my mind wander a bit about China tariffs I wonder if anyone is still waiting on their Fiesta medals, and if so, will they be able to afford them? Medals are a lovely cultural tradition in San Antonio and sales often raise funds for nonprofits Thoughts @texaspublicradio.bsky.social?

"Those betting on Trump and his promise to bring back manufacturing risk putting us all in a more precarious position—pushing us back to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and to a time when the 'good life' was accessible only to the robber barons, while the rest of America struggled to get by."

Hey Texans! You can make a difference for climate today! Call! cc @douglewin.bsky.social @volts.wtf @joshdr83.bsky.social @jael.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

thousands of folks marching for #handsoff in downtown san antonio as the final four kicks off about 10 blocks away

I know we're all watching the markets right now but this has me in tears today. I contacted my senators/rep immediately - here's what I said 🧵 Employees at National Endowment for the Humanities put on leave www.npr.org/2025/04/04/n...

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Bob. What a king. #Caturday

EXCLUSIVE: Tonight at the Kennedy Center, Guster brought on cast members from Finn, an LGBTQ+ kids musical that was recently canceled when Trump took over the center. They performed the band’s song “Hard Times” to a standing ovation. Full story, exclusive quotes and video on The Handbasket:

I'm re-upping this in light of Trump's EO on "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History." Are you an educator with a take on this? Reach out via email or Signal (in my bio). www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Trump says the Institute of Museum and Library Service - a key federal support for archives, documentary heritage, heritage sites & historical societies - is “unnecessary” and will be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” This week the IMLS national board responded

TIME-SENSITIVE ADVOCACY UPDATE! Ask your Representative to sign on to this letter in support of IMLS circulating in the House. The deadline is Friday, so call now! Draft phone script, courtesy of AAM: t.congressweb.com/l/?TGLHNAFNI... Find other advocacy action items: culturalheritage.org/advocate

@resistancerangers.bsky.social and @indivisible.org at Mission San Juan in San Antonio, Texas! #SaveOurParks #ResistanceRangers #Resist

Last week, my 7 year old asked if we could have a meal where we didn't eat any meat. (She joked that we could balance it out with a meat-only meal the next night, lol) So I asked her to help me plan our meals for next week.

Y'all!!! I found another white Texas mountain laurel! These hardy trees usually have beautiful purple blooms - this is the second white variant I've ever seen! (the other is in @hemisfair.bsky.social) #plantsky #native #botany

How can you get involved in @ipcc.bsky.social AR7? On LinkedIn, @dianaurge.bsky.social has this very comprehensive list. Read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/dianau...

EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of KS, OK, CO, MO, WY, IL, TX, NM, NE. The AQI in St. Louis hit an unfathomable 5,791 from PM10 (dust); an AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”. The tops: Lamar, CO hit an AQI of 12,802. Consult airnow.gov.

Supporting some incredibly ambitious and brilliant young people planning an international Earth Day event with #Youngo and @climateheritage.bsky.social is definitely carrying me through this very difficult week. 💚🌍

Many bright spots where the power of arts, culture, and heritage to catalyze climate action seems implicitly referenced. What stood out to you? 1/4 #climateheritage #cop30 cop30.br/en/brazilian...

Women can be powerful agents of change and drivers of #climateaction. Creating more opportunities for women is critical for developing effective and equitable strategies for responding to climate change. #InternationalWomensDay www.climateheritage.org/women