http://kwgs.org en http://kwgs.org/post/nepi-announces-new-plan-building-americas-energy-future-portfolio-promising-policies <p>Our guest on ST is Tony Knowles, the president of the National Energy Policy Institute (or NEPI) and former governor of Alaska. Based here at the University of Tulsa, and created in 2008 with a donation from the George Kaiser Family Foundation (which also donates funds to Public Radio Tulsa), NEPI is a think-tank aiming to provide policymakers with better research and scholarship with which to design and implement energy policy. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:55:35 +0000 Rich Fisher 37987 at http://kwgs.org NEPI Announces a New Plan: "Building America's Energy Future: A Portfolio of Promising Policies" http://kwgs.org/post/dr-laurence-smith-ucla-geography-department-world-2050 <p>On today&#39;s show, we speak with Dr. Laurence Smith, a professor of geography at UCLA, about his much-discussed book, &quot;The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization&#39;s Northern Future,&quot; which first appeared in 2010 (and which The Wall Street Journal called &quot;lively and impressive...[and] among the first in what promises to be an important publishing category, the explication of how the human landscape will be altered by artificially triggered climate change&quot;). Dr. Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:27:18 +0000 Rich Fisher 15761 at http://kwgs.org Dr. Laurence Smith (of the UCLA Geography Department) on "The World in 2050"