In the Connect the Dots podcast, the Center’s president, Rob Verchick, interviews legal experts, scholars and researchers, and community members on policy issues that impact you, your family, and your community. Each season untangles themes related climate adaptation, energy justice, workers’ rights and public health, and more.
This podcast is supported in part by the Arlie W. Schardt Fund for Climate Justice.
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 crisis. He's joined by Neza Xiuhtecutli, Research Coordinator for the Farmworkers Association of Florida; Leslie Fields, Senior Director of Environmental Justice and Healthy Communities at the Sierra Club; Maxine Burkett, Member Scholar of Center for Progressive Reform and Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii; Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director of the Georgetown Climate Center; and Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard University.
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 Arroyo of the Georgetown Climate Center, and Cinthia Moore of Mom's Clean Air Force.
In episode 4.3 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, mother and NRDC advocate Gina Ramirez, mother and Moms Clean Air Force member Leah Barbor, and Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard University.
In this episode, host Rob Verchick renews his focus on the ways climate change disrupts people's lives right now. With the planet getting hotter, drier, wetter, and weirder, marginalized groups of many types are in the bull’s eye, forced to leave their homes and communities to seek drier, safer ground. His guests include CPR Member Scholar Maxine Burkett, Chicago activist and third-generation Mexican-American Gina Ramirez, and Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard University.
This season of Rob Verchick's Connect the Dots podcast focuses on people living in the crosshairs of climate change, those disproportionately carrying the burden of the world and suffering now on a daily basis. This first episode of the season features CPR Member Scholar Maxine Burkett, the Sierra Club's Leslie Fields, and Bronx resident and activist Mychal Johnson.