PINNIPED VERTEBRA, Kivalina, Alaska (Jesus Landin-Torrez III), SENEGAL COLLECTION, Dakar, Senegal (Matt Swagler), PATCH, Anvers Island, Antarctica (Micalea Neus)

A PEOPLE'S ARCHIVE OF SINKING AND MELTING

A People's Archive of Sinkng and Melting is a collection of materials contributed by people living in places that may disappear because of the combined physical, political, and economic impacts of climate change, primarily sea level rise, erosion, desertification, and glacial melting.

As of 2021, the archive includes contributions from locations including Anvers Island (Antarctica), Cape Verde, Cuba, Greenland, Kivalina (Alaska), Miami, Nepal, New Orleans, New York City, Panama, Peru, Russia, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, and Tuvalu.

Together, through common but differentiated collections, these contributions form an archive of what will have been.

Visit the Archive online

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A People's Archive is actively seeking contributions.

WHAT TO CONTRIBUTE

Any item is equally valuable as a record of a sinking or melting place, as contributed by someone who lives there. Your contribution can be something natural, manufactured, found, made, or discarded, including trash. It doesn't have to originate from that place - it can be anything that is there. Your submitted object will be permanently archived with the information you send and the location's UNFCCC Party Grouping.

Your contribution must weigh less than 1/2 lb. The archive will not accept items with import/export prohibitions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOW TO SEND

1. FILL OUT the contribution form below and email it to: registrar (at) sinkingandmelting.org

Item name:
Description/Materials:
Contributed by:
Location:
Lat/Long (if available):
Date Collected:
How location is impacted by climate change (sinking/melting/desertification, etc.):
Notes:

2. MAIL or BRING contributions to:

A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting
c/o Registrar: Amy Balkin
2136 Fell Street, No.301
San Francisco, CA
94117 USA

 

 

 

2. SUBMIT any 8MB or smaller .jpg images to: registrar (at) sinkingandmelting dot org

3. (OPTIONAL) QUESTIONS

Do you live where the object came from? If not, what is your relation to that place?

What have you seen disappear there, environmentally or otherwise? What do those disappearances mean?

What is your relationship to the object(s) you contributed?

Why did you contribute to the archive? What do you hope for your contribution, and the archive generally, to change or draw attention to?

CONTACT

Email the registrars at: registrar (at) sinkingandmelting.org