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Announcing the Energy Futures Lab’s Strategic Shift
Dear Lab Community, Over the past nine years the Energy Futures Lab (EFL) has been hosting innovation processes and supporting...
The Lab Team
Feb 13, 20235 min read
Intergenerational Inspiration at the Youth Innovation Jam
By Guest Contributor Matthew Rygus Gathered together at the beautiful Ampersand building in downtown Calgary, attendees at the Energy...
Matthew Rygus
May 20, 20222 min read
Working with what we have got: Why economic clusters are a useful frame for thinking about Alberta’s energy transition
How can Alberta’s economy continue to attract investment in a net-zero future? Over the last year, great minds in finance, policy,...
Alicia Planincic
Dec 14, 20216 min read
Backcasting Applied to Economic Development Strategy: The Petro-lithium Exemplar
Amidst the drama of recent pipeline and trade war news, you may be forgiven if you missed another announcement that will be important in...
Chad Park
Jun 18, 20183 min read
Welcome New Energy Futures Lab Fellows!
For the last few months, the Energy Futures Lab has been in recruitment mode, searching for promising leaders and influencers from across...
Alison Cretney
Mar 25, 20172 min read
Welcome New Energy Futures Lab Fellows!
For the last few months, the Energy Futures Lab has been in recruitment mode, searching for promising leaders and influencers from across...
Alison Cretney
Mar 25, 20172 min read
Get Involved in the Energy Futures Lab Community and Choose your Adventure
Since its inception in 2015, the Energy Futures Lab has had a primary focus on the development of the Fellowship and the co-creation of...
Nagwan Al-Guneid
Mar 24, 20172 min read
Taking on 2017!
Well, 2016 was quite a year for Alberta. A lingering recession due to low oil prices. Provincial climate policies announced and enacted....
Chad Park
Jan 17, 20174 min read
EFL Fellowship: Leading and influencing in times of uncertainty
2016 was a year of change and new realities. 2016 was a year of change and new realities. It ended with national and international...
Alison Cretney
Jan 10, 20172 min read
An Emerging Portfolio of EFL Initiatives
No one ever said the transition to a new energy economy would be easy. From the very beginning, The Natural Step Canada (TNSC) was under...
Chad Park
Oct 19, 20165 min read
Chad Park: Six Suggestions for Alberta’s Climate Technology Task Force
Earlier this fall Alberta’s Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous appointed Gord Lambert to chair a Climate Technology...
Chad Park
Oct 7, 20164 min read
Defining A Successful Transition: How did we arrive at the Vision Statement?
Back in February, Energy Futures Lab Director Chad Park blogged about ‘ Our Unfinished Backcasting Business ’. He explained how an EFL...
Tyler Seed
May 31, 20164 min read
Chad Park: The Energy Futures Lab Pivots to Phase II
The May workshop of the Energy Futures Lab (EFL) Fellowship marked an important milestone, as the EFL pivots into a second phase of...
Chad Park
May 30, 20163 min read
Chad Park: Our Unfinished Backcasting Business
The January EFL workshop was the first chance for the EFL Fellows to dip their toes into backcasting waters. Backcasting is central to...
Chad Park
Feb 25, 20165 min read
Backcasting: Starting with the End in Mind
Sustainability expert, Pong Leung introduces backcasting, a key tool for the Energy Futures Lab Backcasting gives you a chance to look...
Pong Leung
Feb 17, 20164 min read
Recapping the First Energy Futures Lab Workshop
How do you accelerate innovation to an unnaturally high pace? According to Bill Gates, in a provocatively titled We Need an Energy Miracle...
Tyler Seed
Nov 23, 20154 min read
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