When the country held the biggest rally about climate change and the dangers of the Keystone XL Pipeline back in February, CL's Arielle Stevenson was there to report it.
The pipeline is controversial because there are many who insist that it's not as bad for the environment as critics allege. One of the supporters is Dr. Edward Glab, currently a Clinical Professor and Director of the Global Energy Security Forum at the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.
Glab is among the many scholars, diplomats and reporters who will be in St. Petersburg from March 28-29 for the first annual St Petersburg in the World Conference.
CL asked Glab about the pipeline, climate change and alternative energy. After the jump is a mostly unedited transcript of our conversation, which didn't make it into last week's cover story about the conference.
This article appears in Mar 21-27, 2013.