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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 off the season, host Rob Verchick digs into resiliency, real estate, and how climate change is beginning to impact people's decisions on where to live -- or move. Rob is joined by Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin; Philip Mulder, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business; Matt Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California and the author of Adapting to Climate Change; and Sean Hecht, CPR Member Scholar and Evan Frankel Professor of Policy and Practice at UCLA School of Law.

In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick and his guests discuss energy policy at different levels of government and who's leading the way in the clean energy journey. Rob is joined by Alice Kaswan, CPR Board Member and professor and associate dean at the University of San Francisco; Hannah Wiseman, CPR Member Scholar and professor at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and Institutes of Energy and the Environment at Penn State University; Laura Zapata, founder and CEO of Clearloop; Flozell Daniels, Jr., CEO and President of the Foundation for Louisiana; and Wendy Gao, youth environmental activist and co-founder of the youth nonprofit, Earth Uprising.

In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick and his guests discuss the fiscal complexities and possibilities of a just, equitable transition to clean, renewable energy. When it comes to innovation and clean energy, there’s a wide range of players building new technology and sourcing terrains to scale renewables as wide as the great unknown. Funding for those projects comes from a host of financiers, from banks to private equity firms to, perhaps, everyday consumers. The drive behind financing the energy transition results from a dedicated consortium of political agendas, business prerogatives, and consumer demand. Rob is joined by Lawrence Early, an engineering graduate at Yale University; Pete Hellwig, a co-founder of Atmos; Alice Kaswan, CPR Board Member and professor and associate dean at the University of San Francisco; Hannah Wiseman, CPR Member Scholar and professor at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and Institutes of Energy and the Environment at Penn State University; and Laura Zapata, founder and CEO of Clearloop.

In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick discusses carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS. The fossil fuel industry is billing the technology as a way to reduce carbon emissions while continuing to do business as usual. But carbon capture and sequestration is not nearly comprehensive enough to reduce emissions at a level and rate necessary to make a difference in the fight against climate change. Also, the logistics are complex and questionable, and the whole process could end up burning more energy than it saves. Rob is joined by Flozell Daniels, Jr., CEO and President of the Foundation for Louisiana; Alice Kaswan, CPR Board Member and professor and associate dean at the University of San Francisco; Alex Kolker, associate professor for the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium; Karen Sokol, CPR Member Scholar and associate professor of law at Loyola University in New Orleans; and Hannah Wiseman, CPR Member Scholar and professor at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and Institutes of Energy and the Environment at Penn State University.

In this episode of Connect the Dots, host Rob Verchick discusses the transition to clean energy, its role in combatting the climate crisis, its potential impacts on American households, and its environmental justice and equity implications. He's joined by Flozell Daniels, Jr., CEO and President of the Foundation for Louisiana; Lawrence Early, an engineering graduate at Yale University; Wendy Gao, an environmental activist and student at the University of Virginia; Cheryl Johnson, Executive Director of People for Community Recovery in Chicago; and Hannah Wiseman, CPR Member Scholar and professor at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and Institutes of Energy and the Environment at Penn State University.