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Documentary of the Week: Climate One, A Monthly Dialogue on Green Issues

Friday night at 8pm on KWGS 89.5-1

Climate One is a thriving leadership dialogue on energy, the environment and the economy, recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California. It brings together top thinkers and doers from business, government, academia and advocacy groups to advance the discussion about a clean energy future. In this episode of Climate One, a look under the hood at the liquid fuels that move our planes, trains and automobiles. Listeners will learn about peak oil, the rise of China as a global energy player, a debate about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada’s tar sands to refineries in Texas and  a surprising response from the world’s largest carmaker to tough new rules doubling auto fuel efficiency over the next 13 years. 

Guests include Daniel Yergin, Author of “The Quest”; Alex Pourbaix, President of pipelines at TransCanada; Carl Pope, Former Chairman of the Sierra Club; Shad Balch, Spokesman for General Motors; and Chris Paulson, Vice President of Coda Automotive.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.