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The Lab celebrates its 10th anniversary with launch of ‘All-Star’ Fellowship
The Energy Futures Lab is kicking off a year-long celebration of its 10-year anniversary with the announcement of the tenth cohort of...
The Lab Team
Jan 233 min read


Impact: Innisfail Energy Futures Roadshow Cultivates Community Conversations on Energy
Driving through central Alberta is quintessential prairie. The big skies, aspen groves, golden wheat fields and sunlit canola crops are...
Ailsa Popilian
May 19, 20238 min read


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


There’s no energy security without net zero
Canada has the raw materials and commodities that the world is increasingly desperate for today, and the innovation capital to turn them...
Alison Cretney
Aug 12, 20224 min read


From Lithium on Tap to the Battery Metals Association of Canada
The Energy Futures Lab contributes to a growing battery metals industry The EV Revolution Every so often, humans stumble upon a resource...
Alison Cretney
May 31, 202212 min read


Using Data Visualization in the Energy Futures Lab
Image source: Student Energy Hi there, I’m Steve Williams and I am an Information Designer for the Energy Futures Lab. I’m working on how...
Steve Williams
Jan 5, 20202 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


Energy Futures Lab Now Features 58 Fellows
This spring the Energy Futures Lab welcomed 13 new Fellows. Together with the 12 who joined earlier in 2017, the new cohort adds energy...
Alison Cretney
Jun 30, 20172 min read


The Energy Futures Lab looks for common ground in energy debate
Oil and gas versus renewables? That’s a false dichotomy, according to the Energy Futures Lab (EFL), an initiative that acknowledges the...
Peter Kenter
May 24, 20173 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


Judy Fairburn, Dr. Reg Crowshoe and Nicholas Parker Join Energy Futures Lab Advisory Council
The Energy Futures Lab is excited to announce the three newest members of its Advisory Council. By serving as public champions for the...
The Lab Team
Feb 14, 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


An Interview with Gordon Lambert, EFL Advisory Board Member
You need to critically test for whether the pace and scale at which work is getting done is appropriate to the challenges that you’re...
Pong Leung
Sep 6, 20165 min read


Kali Taylor: Activating the Energy Futures Lab “Brain Trust”
The term “Brain Trust” was coined in the 1930s by a New York Times reporter to describe a group of advisors who provided advice to...
Kali Taylor
Aug 16, 20163 min read


Steve Williams: Visualizing the Energy System
The Energy Futures Lab is all about the energy system. In fact, the idea is built right into our convening question “How can Alberta’s...
Steve Williams
Jul 16, 20164 min read


Tensions and Pivots: Evaluating the Energy Futures Lab
Accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy system is a pretty big goal. Let’s face it, if we could meet this challenge with a...
The Lab Team
Jun 28, 20164 min read


Cleantech Insights with Meera Nathwani-Crowe & Kipp Horton
If the energy transition is a journey, what are the paths to get there? Our future isn’t in a single resource based economy or a silver...
The Lab Team
Jun 16, 20165 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
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