Andrew Potts🏳️🌈
@andrewspotts.bsky.social
Culture-Based Climate Change Action. Locally-Led Adaptation for Heritage. Community of Practice Director for Preserving Legacies @preservinglegacies.bsky.social.
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#ClimateHeritage #HeritageAdapts
Personal account. Does not reflect my employer.
#ClimateHeritage #HeritageAdapts
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Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council
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Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council
At the recent summit in Brazil, Indigenous leaders launch global council to centre Indigenous solutions and knowledge in addressing the crisis
ricochet.media
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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sorry this is so funny and also inevitable
Exclusive: President Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic.
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
sorry this is so funny and also inevitable
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Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. www.latimes.com/california/s....
Elk are again roaming on lands that California has returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe
Tribal leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom gathered Wednesday to mark the return of 17,000 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian tribe.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. www.latimes.com/california/s....
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💬 How can Europe balance ambitious climate targets with the need to protect its cultural heritage and ensure affordable housing for all?
We’ll tackle this question and more in our upcoming #HeritageDialogues webinar on 3 December.
🔗 Register today: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’ll tackle this question and more in our upcoming #HeritageDialogues webinar on 3 December.
🔗 Register today: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
💬 How can Europe balance ambitious climate targets with the need to protect its cultural heritage and ensure affordable housing for all?
We’ll tackle this question and more in our upcoming #HeritageDialogues webinar on 3 December.
🔗 Register today: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’ll tackle this question and more in our upcoming #HeritageDialogues webinar on 3 December.
🔗 Register today: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Aligned with the #COP30 Action Agenda on #InformationIntegrity for #ClimateChange, we’re mobilising #libraries! 🌍
Use our self-assessment tools to check your climate info efforts and see how to level up. Start here: https://tr.ee/e4QDYn
#ActionAgendaSolutions #MutirãoCOP30 COP30 Brasil
Use our self-assessment tools to check your climate info efforts and see how to level up. Start here: https://tr.ee/e4QDYn
#ActionAgendaSolutions #MutirãoCOP30 COP30 Brasil
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Aligned with the #COP30 Action Agenda on #InformationIntegrity for #ClimateChange, we’re mobilising #libraries! 🌍
Use our self-assessment tools to check your climate info efforts and see how to level up. Start here: https://tr.ee/e4QDYn
#ActionAgendaSolutions #MutirãoCOP30 COP30 Brasil
Use our self-assessment tools to check your climate info efforts and see how to level up. Start here: https://tr.ee/e4QDYn
#ActionAgendaSolutions #MutirãoCOP30 COP30 Brasil
🌎 While #COP30 yielded disappointments, here’s news on one of its accomplishments— operationalization of culture and heritage in adaptation policy. Watch for more on efforts to capitalize on this outcomes via the #HeritageAdapts! Campaign in 2026!
#GGA
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#GGA
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November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🌎 While #COP30 yielded disappointments, here’s news on one of its accomplishments— operationalization of culture and heritage in adaptation policy. Watch for more on efforts to capitalize on this outcomes via the #HeritageAdapts! Campaign in 2026!
#GGA
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#GGA
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Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities.
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
There has always been a culture -sized hole in UN climate negotiations: Will COP30 Help Fill It?
To get climate action back on track, COP30 must urgently address the cultural enablers and barriers to transformative change
midianinja.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities.
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
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A statue of an artwork depicting Donald Trump at #COP30 in Belem, Brazil.
📷 @fionaharvey.bsky.social/The Guardian
📷 @fionaharvey.bsky.social/The Guardian
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A statue of an artwork depicting Donald Trump at #COP30 in Belem, Brazil.
📷 @fionaharvey.bsky.social/The Guardian
📷 @fionaharvey.bsky.social/The Guardian
Final hours to see if the socio-culture gap in climate policy gets any smaller. C’mon Brazil: lead us forward. #COP30 #climateheritage
Our Director of Community, @andrewspotts.bsky.social, along with Marcele Oliveira and Alison Tickell, co-authored a series of articles exploring how culture, heritage, and creativity can bridge the gap between climate policy and people’s lived realities.
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
🔗 midianinja.org/en/opiniao/s...
There has always been a culture -sized hole in UN climate negotiations: Will COP30 Help Fill It?
To get climate action back on track, COP30 must urgently address the cultural enablers and barriers to transformative change
midianinja.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Final hours to see if the socio-culture gap in climate policy gets any smaller. C’mon Brazil: lead us forward. #COP30 #climateheritage
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At #SB8j_1, Indigenous Co-Chair Gunn-Britt Retter, Arctic region, emphasized that the urgency of the biodiversity crisis stresses the pressing need for resources to sustain and enhance biodiversity actions, in particular led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. @unbiodiversity.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
At #SB8j_1, Indigenous Co-Chair Gunn-Britt Retter, Arctic region, emphasized that the urgency of the biodiversity crisis stresses the pressing need for resources to sustain and enhance biodiversity actions, in particular led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. @unbiodiversity.bsky.social
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“For years, the EU has promised to lead on climate and nature protection, but what this investigation shows is that we are literally cementing over our own future"
Great new research from 41 journalists & scientists from 11 countries shows extent of loss. Ireland ranks 3rd by pop.
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Great new research from 41 journalists & scientists from 11 countries shows extent of loss. Ireland ranks 3rd by pop.
greentogrey.eu
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“For years, the EU has promised to lead on climate and nature protection, but what this investigation shows is that we are literally cementing over our own future"
Great new research from 41 journalists & scientists from 11 countries shows extent of loss. Ireland ranks 3rd by pop.
greentogrey.eu
Great new research from 41 journalists & scientists from 11 countries shows extent of loss. Ireland ranks 3rd by pop.
greentogrey.eu
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Last week at #ClimateWeekNYC, @andrewspotts.bsky.social joined Activation Group 19 with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate Champions to advance the #COP30 Action Agenda on culture, heritage, and climate action. 🌍
October 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Last week at #ClimateWeekNYC, @andrewspotts.bsky.social joined Activation Group 19 with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate Champions to advance the #COP30 Action Agenda on culture, heritage, and climate action. 🌍
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NEW: A buyout program is coming for homeowners in The Hole, a NYC neighborhood unlike any other.
It’s the first time the city pursues this climate adaptation strategy proactively, instead of after a disaster, and with a focus on inland (not coastal) flooding.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/03/f...
It’s the first time the city pursues this climate adaptation strategy proactively, instead of after a disaster, and with a focus on inland (not coastal) flooding.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/03/f...
They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole'
The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.
www.thecity.nyc
October 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
NEW: A buyout program is coming for homeowners in The Hole, a NYC neighborhood unlike any other.
It’s the first time the city pursues this climate adaptation strategy proactively, instead of after a disaster, and with a focus on inland (not coastal) flooding.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/03/f...
It’s the first time the city pursues this climate adaptation strategy proactively, instead of after a disaster, and with a focus on inland (not coastal) flooding.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/03/f...
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The Department of Energy has now banned the following words and phrases:
climate change, green, decarbonization, energy transition, clean energy, emissions, sustainability, tax breaks, carbon footprint.
This is dystopian and should terrify anyone paying attention.
climate change, green, decarbonization, energy transition, clean energy, emissions, sustainability, tax breaks, carbon footprint.
This is dystopian and should terrify anyone paying attention.
October 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Department of Energy has now banned the following words and phrases:
climate change, green, decarbonization, energy transition, clean energy, emissions, sustainability, tax breaks, carbon footprint.
This is dystopian and should terrify anyone paying attention.
climate change, green, decarbonization, energy transition, clean energy, emissions, sustainability, tax breaks, carbon footprint.
This is dystopian and should terrify anyone paying attention.
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Israel seems to be intercepting right now.
All eyes needed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
1/3
Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".
September 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🧵🧪 In session on policy and societal requirements at the Royal Society discussion meeting today, Prof Hans-Otto Pörtner, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II, stated that he thinks keeping global temperature rise "below 1.5 [°C above pre-industrial] is probably now out of reach".
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You have until 1 October to submit nominations for the #7MostEndangered Programme — a key civil society initiative from @europanostra.bsky.social with EIB INSTITUTE & @creativeeurope.bsky.social , dedicated to saving Europe’s heritage at risk.
➡️ Nominate today: 7mostendangered.eu/call-for-nom...
➡️ Nominate today: 7mostendangered.eu/call-for-nom...
September 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
You have until 1 October to submit nominations for the #7MostEndangered Programme — a key civil society initiative from @europanostra.bsky.social with EIB INSTITUTE & @creativeeurope.bsky.social , dedicated to saving Europe’s heritage at risk.
➡️ Nominate today: 7mostendangered.eu/call-for-nom...
➡️ Nominate today: 7mostendangered.eu/call-for-nom...
Meeting today during #ClimateWeekNYC of Activation Group 19 i.e. folks working with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate High-Level Champions to help deliver the COP30 Action Agenda objective on Culture, cultural heritage protection & climate action. 50 days to Belém! #ClimateHeritage
September 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Meeting today during #ClimateWeekNYC of Activation Group 19 i.e. folks working with the @cop30brazil.bsky.social Presidency & Climate High-Level Champions to help deliver the COP30 Action Agenda objective on Culture, cultural heritage protection & climate action. 50 days to Belém! #ClimateHeritage
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Not shocked, but certainly saddened. The Kennedy Center has turned into a national disgrace…
September 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Not shocked, but certainly saddened. The Kennedy Center has turned into a national disgrace…
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On efforts to combat climate change, the US has joined the ranks of countries like Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia in being critically insufficient, thanks to the Trump Admin’s rollback of virtually all climate policy.
September 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
On efforts to combat climate change, the US has joined the ranks of countries like Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia in being critically insufficient, thanks to the Trump Admin’s rollback of virtually all climate policy.
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The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.
"Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.
"Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.
Rare Portraits of Enslaved Mississippians Displayed at Art Museum
The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.
"Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.
"Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.
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Thanks to Christal Brown, a remarkable dance performance amongst the solar panels at @middleburycollege.bsky.social Middlebury College to help launch Sun Day in the best possible way
September 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thanks to Christal Brown, a remarkable dance performance amongst the solar panels at @middleburycollege.bsky.social Middlebury College to help launch Sun Day in the best possible way
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To anyone throwing our LGBTQ+ community under the bus: grow a spine. To those who want to ruin the lives of our trans loved ones, take away their access to healthcare, blame them for society’s ills, + take away their rights: grow a heart. To Eric Adams: We look forward to you leaving Gracie Mansion.
September 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
To anyone throwing our LGBTQ+ community under the bus: grow a spine. To those who want to ruin the lives of our trans loved ones, take away their access to healthcare, blame them for society’s ills, + take away their rights: grow a heart. To Eric Adams: We look forward to you leaving Gracie Mansion.