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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


Alberta’s future: turning nonsense to common sense
Innovators . Entrepreneurial. Ambitious. This is how Albertans have long described themselves, a story often centred around our...

Alicia Planincic
Dec 6, 20215 min read


Why Future Fit Hydrocarbons are the bridge to a better future
This post is part 2 of 3 exploring sustainable finance, bringing together the perspectives of three of our Core Working Group members:...

Chad Park
Jun 9, 20214 min read


What do decision-makers care about when investing in future-fit hydrocarbons?
Alberta’s hydrocarbon sector faced an uncertain future in a world moving towards lower-carbon energy before the pandemic, with existing...

John McNally
Mar 30, 20214 min read


A closer look at “future-fit”
Planning for the future is complicated. We don’t know for sure what the future will look like. That means — and forgive me for being a...

Dale Beugin
Mar 4, 20214 min read


Tech for Tomorrow’s Alberta: ERA’s Technology Roadmap & Future-Fit Hydrocarbons
Around the world, countries, corporations, and people are picking up the call for a net-zero future. This global rallying cry is...
Bob Savage
Feb 23, 20214 min read


Five Big Ideas for Alberta’s Economic Recovery
The outbreak of COVID-19 has triggered a global economic crisis that was unimaginable even two weeks ago, and perhaps nowhere is that...

Alison Cretney
Dec 1, 202011 min read


Reimagining Carbon
In many ways, this has been the Year of Carbon at the EFL. We need to re-imagine carbon and re-imagine waste to make a substantial...

Alison Cretney
Oct 17, 20192 min read


The snowball is rolling. Let’s keep it going.
Chad Park’s remarks from the EFL 2.0 launch reception on February 12, 2019 Over the last month something notable happened here in Alberta...

Chad Park
Sep 19, 20194 min read


When Social Innovation Meets Technology Innovation: SPARK 2017 and the Energy Futures Lab
Alberta is poised for a big leap forward in energy innovation. This will be on display in early November at SPARK 2017 , a two-day...

Chad Park
Oct 25, 20175 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


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


Thought Leaders Series | Toby Heaps and Tzeporah Berman
Part One: The Latest International Developments Following last month’s GLOBE Conference in Vancouver, Energy Futures Lab Director Chad...

Chad Park
Apr 18, 20165 min read


Apoorv Sinha: What Does the Future of the Alberta Energy System Look Like?
Reflections from our Energy Futures Lab Fellows “The Albertan Oil Sands, and the province’s economic dependence on them needs to be an...

Aproov Sinha
Jan 28, 20162 min read
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