Denise Robbins's guest appearances

Denise Robbins

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

TBS eFM This Morning

Upside Down: The CCAN Podcast

Barack Obama

Nancy Pelosi

Chris Hayes

Kate Black

Colson Whitehead

Michael Pollan

Chris Mason

Cory Booker

Ben Carson

Amy Stewart

Danielle Evans

Justin Martin

Anthony Ray Hinton

Wes Moore

Neal Barnard

OwlTail

Denise is the now former Communications Director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. Denise grew up in Madison Wisconsin, went to college at Cornell in upstate New York, and has called DC home for the past 8.5 years. She first decided she wanted to save the world from global warming when she was 8 years old. She's co-authored a book about climate refugees called Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century, published by Indiana University Press in 2017, and is currently working on a novel and a short story collection. She has a cat named Elephant. After four long years with CCAN, she has decided to take the next step in her life and move on. I was lucky enough to have a chat with Denise before she handed the baton to our new Comms Director.   For a full transcript of this interview check out our website!

Denise is the now former Communications Director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. Denise grew up in Madison Wisconsin, went to college at Cornell in upstate New York, and has called DC home for the past 8.5 years. She first decided she wanted to save the world from global warming when she was 8 years old. She's co-authored a book about climate refugees called Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century, published by Indiana University Press in 2017, and is currently working on a novel and a short story collection. She has a cat named Elephant. After four long years with CCAN, she has decided to take the next step in her life and move on. I was lucky enough to have a chat with Denise before she handed the baton to our new Comms Director. <a href="https://chesapeakeclimate.org/turning-the-page-end-of-a-chapter-for-comms-director-denise-robbins/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">For a full transcript of this interview check out our website!</a>

Turning the page – End of a chapter for Comms Director Denise Robbins

Rising Tides sounds an urgent wakeup call to the growing crisis of climate refugees, and offers an essential, continent-by-continent look at these dangers. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their homes, cities, and even entire countries. What will happen to these massive numbers of environmental refugees? Where will they go, what rights will they have, and who will take care of them? Detailing a number of solutions, John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins argue that no nation can tackle this universal problem alone. The crisis of climate refugees requires global, concerted solutions beyond the strategic, fiscal, and legal capability of a single country or agency.John R. Wennersten is an environmental affairs writer and author of Global Thirst: Water and Society in the 21st Century. The Maryland Humanities Commission recently selected him as a Maryland Millennial Scholar.Communications Director at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Denise Robbins is a writer and communications expert on climate change issues in Washington, DC. A graduate of Cornell University, she regularly publishes articles dealing with all aspects of global and national environmental change, with a focus on regional politics.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. 

Rising Tides sounds an urgent wakeup call to the growing crisis of climate refugees, and offers an essential, continent-by-continent look at these dangers. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their homes, cities, and even entire countries. What will happen to these massive numbers of environmental refugees? Where will they go, what rights will they have, and who will take care of them? Detailing a number of solutions, John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins argue that no nation can tackle this universal problem alone. The crisis of climate refugees requires global, concerted solutions beyond the strategic, fiscal, and legal capability of a single country or agency.John R. Wennersten is an environmental affairs writer and author of Global Thirst: Water and Society in the 21st Century. The Maryland Humanities Commission recently selected him as a Maryland Millennial Scholar.Communications Director at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Denise Robbins is a writer and communications expert on climate change issues in Washington, DC. A graduate of Cornell University, she regularly publishes articles dealing with all aspects of global and national environmental change, with a focus on regional politics.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.

Writers LIVE: John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins, Rising Tide: Climate Refugees in the 21st Century