Episodes
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S7 Ep6: How Climate Wins are Won
In this season's final episode, Rob is joined by producer Maggie Dewane to look back at the season's climate wins. Together they consider common themes and througlines, lessons learned, and how similar successes might be achieved elsewhere. Connect the Dots is brought to you by the Center for...
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S7 Ep5: Climate Win: Navajo Power Brings Clean Energy to Tribal Lands
Navajo Power is generating clean energy projects on tribal lands and maximizing the economic benefits for those communities through localized solar power. Unlike many companies, it continues to support households with maintenance and troubleshooting long after solar installation. In this episode,...
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S7 Ep4: Climate Win: Bipartisan Support in Climate Legislation
Maine is the first state to require utility companies to include assessment of environmental, equity, and environmental justice impacts in grid planning. That was just one provision of a climate law that passed Maine’s state legislature with bipartisan support. In this episode, Rob speaks to…
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S7 Ep3: Climate Win: Energy Justice and Community Solar Power
In this season of Connect the Dots, Rob explores environmental justice and climate wins across the country and how we can replicate those successes elsewhere. This episode digs into a community win in North Carolina: community-based solar solutions. But what does that mean exactly? And can it…
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S7 Ep2: Climate Win: Youth Activist Takes on State Government
When middle schooler Adah Crandall of Portland, Oregon noticed the impact her school's proximity to a busy freeway was having on some of her classmates, she took action. She and her classmates started an Environmental Justice Club, began protesting outside of government buildings, and lobbied...
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S7 Ep1: Climate Win: Passing Maryland's Climate Solutions Now Act
In this season of Connect the Dots, Rob explores environmental justice and climate wins across the country and how we can replicate those successes elsewhere. This episode digs into a legislative win in Maryland: the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022. What goes into successful policymaking?…
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S6 E5: Those Who Wander
In the final episode of Season 6, Connect the Dots host Rob Verchick and his guests talk about climate migration. Climate refugees can come from anywhere: from cities and suburbia to some of the remotest places on Earth. They may have jobs dictated by the weather. If it’s too hot or dry, they’re...
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S6 E4: Unhealthy Planet, Unhealthy People
In this episode of CPR’s Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick and his guests explore how climate change is impacting our health. When we consider the climate crisis, our attention often gravitates toward extreme weather. We worry about wildfires burning our homes and hurricanes ripping down...
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S6 E3: Who's Hiring?
Hey listeners! You might have heard an earlier version of this episode, but due to technology issues, we noticed some audio errors in our post-production. We've since removed that version and uploaded this episode. Thanks for your understanding! Enjoy, and thank you for listening. In this episode...
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S6 E2: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Climate Adaptation
In this episode of CPR’s Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick and his guests explore how parents, families, and communities are adapting their lifestyles to the realities of climate change. Our lives revolve around the weather: what we wear, where our kids play after school, where we go on…
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S6 E1: Home is Where the Flood Is
In Season 6 of CPR's Connect the Dots podcast, we’re discussing climate resiliency — that is, our ability to handle the stresses caused by climate disruption and adapt to changing conditions. The crisis may be stark, but there are solutions and pathways to a viable, sustainable future. Kicking…
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S6: Season 6 Trailer - Climate Resilience
CPR’s Connect the Dots has been distilling complex policy issues for listeners for five seasons. In Season 6, coming early 2022, we’ll explore climate resiliency—that is, our ability to handle the stresses caused by climate disruption and adapt to changing conditions. The crisis may be stark, but...
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S5 Ep4: Season 5, Episode 4: That's an Order
President Biden put climate policy front and center on his campaigning platform and wasted no time in pushing his agenda when he took office. The president has proposed $14 billion in spending on initiatives to fight the crisis in the nation’s 2022 budget, and he has appointed cabinet officials...
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S5 Ep3: Season 5, Episode 3: Banking on the Planet
A couple weeks ago, Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live, a gig typically reserved for A-list movie stars, Grammy Award winners, and stand-up legends. But Musk has risen to fame through his electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla. Musk and Tesla have become a social, political, and…
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S5 Ep2: Season 5, Episode 2: Capturing the Enemy
Companies using fossil fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal are facing heavy pressure to reduce their carbon footprint. If they don't, they could get hit with financial penalties or be completely shut down. In response, these corporations have come up with a treatment of sorts — it's called…
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S5 Ep1: Season 5, Episode 1: Fight the Powers That Be
In 2020, the world banded together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, in 2021, the world continues to change, and we seem to be progressing forward. In turn, the spotlight shifts to another great calamity: climate change. The environmental crisis has made headlines with the Biden administration...
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S4 Ep5: Season 4, Episode 5: Working to Death
In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick discusses one of the more perplexing challenges facing those working to mitigate climate disruption: industrial workers, the people laboring in factories, farms, coal mines, and other businesses directly affecting or affected by the climate...
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S4 Ep4: Season 4, Episode 4: In the Line of Fire
In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick explores the ways the climate crisis drives raging wildfires like the ones that have scorched the western United States, killing dozens of people and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. Joining him are firefighter Sam Perkins, Vicki...
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S4 Ep3: Season 4, Episode 3: Young and Wild and Sick
In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick talks about how the climate crisis hurts children – and presents ideas for possible solutions. He's joined by CPR Member Scholar Maxine Burkett, Sierra Club Senior Director of Environmental Justice and Healthy Communities Leslie Fields…
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S4 Ep2: Season 4, Episode 2: Nowhere to Run
In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick talks climate migration with CPR Member Scholar Maxine Burkett, NRDC advocate and third-generation Mexican-American Gina Ramirez, and Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard...
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S4 Ep1: Season 4, Episode 1: They Can't Breathe
This season on Connect the Dots, we’re looking at people living in the cross hairs of climate change, those disproportionately carrying the burden of the world and suffering on a daily basis. African Americans and people of color make up one of these communities. Packed into neighborhoods...
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S3 Ep7: Season 3, Episode 7: Essential, Not Expendable--Protecting Workers from COVID-19
In this episode, host Rob Verchick talks with CPR Member Scholars Michael Duff and Thomas McGarity about worker safety in the era of the coronavirus – the gaps in law, regulation, and enforcement that leave workers exposed to the virus while permitting employers to escape accountability for…
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S3 Ep6: Season 3, Episode 6: One Doctor's Life in the Time of Coronavirus
In this episode, host Rob Verchick talks with Dr. Andrew Duxbury about being a geriatric physician and medical school professor during the COVID-19 era. Dr. Duxbury teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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S3 Ep5: Season 3, Episode 5: Saving Government Expertise and Protecting Public Health
In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick talks with Center for Progressive Reform Board Member Sid Shapiro and Oxford University professor Liz Fisher about the role and importance of expertise in government agencies, rulemaking, and public policy development. This topic is of...
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S3 Ep4: Season 3, Episode 4: Youths' Climate Case Dismissed. Now What?
In this episode, host Rob Verchick talks with Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholars Melissa Powers (Lewis & Clark Law School) and Karen Sokol (Loyola University New Orleans College of Law) about the 9th Circuit's dismissal of the Juliana v. United States youth climate justice case, what…
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S3 Ep3: Season 3, Episode 3: To Dream the Impossible Burger--and Farm
In this episode, host Rob Verchick talks with CPR Board Members Gilonne d'Origny and Laurie Ristino about the threats to farming as usual. They also taste-test an Impossible Burger.
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S3 Ep2: Season 3, Episode 2: Will We Always Have Paris? Can the World’s Climate Agreement Survive the 2020s?
In this episode, host Rob Verchick talks with Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholar Noah Sachs. They discuss Sachs' new article on the Paris Agreement and what's next for the world's climate change accord now that the United States has started officially withdrawing from the agreement.
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S3 Ep1: Season 3, Episode 1: Reorganizing Government--From Pizza to Climate Change
In this episode of Connect the Dots, Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholars Alejandro Camacho and Robert Glicksman discuss the essential roles of government and regulation -- and how to improve both. It's based on their new book, Reorganizing Government: A Functional and Dimensional...
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S2 Ep6: Season 2, Episode 6: Former Sen. Mary Landrieu on Climate, Energy & Coastal Protection
In this episode, host Rob Verchick talks climate change, energy, and coastal protections with former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.
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S2 Ep5: Season 2, Episode 5: Pollution Regulation as Social Justice: Floods, Hogs, and Poisoned Air
Leslie Fields, Director of Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships at the Sierra Club, and John Hughes, an attorney representing clients harmed by giant hog CAFOs in North Carolina, talk with host Rob Verchick about environmental and social justice, noxious odors, and dangerous…
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S2 Ep4: Season 2, Episode 4: Public Lands and Energy Policy
Center for Progressive Reform Member Scholar and University of Minnesota law professor Alexandra Klass talks with host Rob Verchick to connect the dots among public lands, energy resources, and climate change. They discuss how land use makes powering our societies possible and the role of the...
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S2 Ep3: Season 2, Episode 3: Working Toward a Just Energy Transition
Sharan Burrow of the International Trade Union Confederation discusses the importance of community involvement in policymaking, the need for a just transition away from a reliance on fossil fuels, the role of corporate and federal transparency in encouraging the confidence of workers and unions,...
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S2 Ep2: Season 2, Episode 2: Building Resilient Cities
Shalini Vajjhala of re:focus partners talks about the meaning of resilience, considers the impacts of environmental disaster on city infrastructure, and explores how communities can take proactive approaches to achieving long-term change.
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S2 Ep1: Season 2, Episode 1: Pipeline Wars
Rachel Rye Butler of Greenpeace USA discusses North America's "Pipeline Wars." Learn how grassroots protests against proposed oil and gas pipelines relate to indigenous rights, environmental protection, economic growth, and climate change.
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S1 Ep6: Episode 6: Fossil Fuels on Trial: Suing Oil Companies for Climate Change Disasters (Part 2)
Kate Sears, a member of Marin County's Board of Supervisors, returns, joined by CPR's Tom McGarity to discuss litigation against greenhouse gas contributors.
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S1 Ep5: Episode 5: Fossil Fuels on Trial: Suing Oil Companies for Climate Change Disasters (Part 1)
Kate Sears, a member of the Board of Supervisors for Marin County, California, discusses a lawsuit brought by the county against oil and gas companies for climate change impacts that threaten the region. Also, Rob Verchick talks briefly with experts at a conference in Germany on disaster…
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S1 Ep4: Episode 4: Keeping Workers Safe in the Era of Climate Change
CPR's Sid Shapiro and Katie Tracy discuss the challenges climate change poses for workers, now and in the future.
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S1 Ep3: Episode 3: Preparing for Climate Change and Toxic Floods in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
CPR's David Flores discusses toxic flooding and its relationship to climate change. Also, David Ossman and Judith Walcutt deliver a stylized audio op-ed: The Octopus in the Parking Garage.
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S1 Ep2: Episode 2: The Age of Climate Migration
CPR's Maxine Burkett on climate change and relocation/migration. Also, Rob Verchick talks briefly with experts at a climate migration conference in South Korea. Listen or download for later.
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S1 Ep1: Episode 1: Climate Change, Food Production, and the 2018 Farm Bill
Rob Verchick talks with CPR Member Scholar Laurie Ristino of Vermont Law School about the connections between climate change, food security, and policymaking tools like the Farm Bill that could be better used to promote sustainable agricultural practices.
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