Future Pasts is a cross-disciplinary project researching critical and cultural conjunctions between 'sustainability' and 'environmental change'. Funded primarily through the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) ‘Care for the Future’ research theme, and developed in conjunction with our Namibian partner organisations (the National Museum of Namibia, Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Save the Rhino Trust, and Mamokobo Film and Research), Future Pasts explores understandings and practices of 'sustainability' and 'environmental change' in west Namibia, where three of our UK academics have long-term field experience. Through combining methods and theoretical perspectives from social anthropology, cultural geography, environmental history, environmental ethics and ethnomusicology, we intend enquiry that is cross- and transdisciplinary, drawing on a hybrid range of disciplinary and situated perspectives. Keywords: cultural landscapes, sustainability, conservation, green economy, environmental change, biodiversity, heritage, memory, globalisation, justice, (ecocultural) ethics, cross- and transdisciplinary analysis, west Namibia.