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Steps to the Future: Discovery Museum Builds Toward Carbon Neutrality
The news about climate change, the environment, and the state of our planet is frightening and discouraging. In the face of it all, how do we create hope? According to noted conservation psychologist John Fraser, the answer is by focusing … -
Historic Houses in the Shifting Landscape of Climate Change
In combating climate change, we can look to Indigenous and historic practices for models of sustainable architectural solutions to extreme heat, cold, and humidity. Structures built in societies or eras without electrically powered air … -
How Museum Educators Are Using Strategic Foresight to Address Climate Change
In this series of posts, EdCom’s Trends Committee is taking a deeper look at emerging phenomena identified in the 2021 edition of TrendsWatch from the Center for the Future of Museums. In this post, they explore examples of how museums … -
Point of View: Ending Business as Usual
With a regenerative approach, every museum can address clim… -
Point of View: Think Globally, Act Locally
By focusing on sustainability, museums can also help make their communities more just and… -
From the President and CEO: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge
AAM’s vision is “a just and sustainable world informed and enriched by thriving museums that contribute to the resiliency and equity of their communities.” I am constantly impressed and inspired by how museum professionals embody this … -
Bringing Our Resources to Bear
Academic museum professionals can use their institution’s resources to help the wider community better understand the clim… -
Let’s Go All In
The international climate conference makes clear that we all must do our part to slow the clim… -
Climate Change at Home
At King Manor, education about the environment and the historic house go ha…
Environmental Sustainability
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Advocacy Alert
Advocacy Alert – March 11, 2026 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Take Action: …