This Anthro Life

How can we use CLIR's help to protect our cultural heritage during climate change? Could telling stories be a big help in keeping our culture alive? Why must we work together to fight climate change and save our heritage? And can technology bring together businesses and academics to help with this?In this episode of This Anthro Life, we talk with Charles Henry, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), about protecting our cultural heritage during challenges like climate change. Charles explains how CLIR supports institutions with resources and funding to make their projects more impactful globally. We stress the importance of storytelling in preserving cultural memory and the need for cooperation to tackle climate change. We also discuss how competitive models between business and academia fall short and how digital technologies can help bridge these gaps.We discuss the serious threat climate change poses to our cultural heritage, including both physical artifacts and traditions.