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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 18, 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 into the future-fit energy that will be in demand for generations to come. ... Nobody ever said the energy transition would be easy, but few likely imagined it would be this chaotic. In retrospect, it was probably tempting to think that the transition to a low-emission economy could be a gentle and gradual affair. Well, so much for that. Wit

Alison Cretney
Aug 11, 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 30, 202212 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 19, 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


Chad Park reflects on his time with the EFL
In August of 2018 I had the good fortune to spend two weeks at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity for a Summer Writers Retreat. My...

Chad Park
Jun 3, 20203 min read


Navigating Tensions at the EFL
There’s never a bad time for the Energy Futures Lab to meet, but the gathering in February in Cochrane was particularly timely. In the...

The Lab Team
Mar 12, 20205 min read


Introducing the “My Energy Future” Campaign
For as long as the EFL has existed, its work has been creating productive and solutions-oriented conversations about energy and climate...

Alison Cretney
Feb 6, 20202 min read


Reflections on an Interview with the CBC
On Tuesday this week, I was interviewed by host Laura Lynch on CBC Radio One’s Vancouver morning show, the Early Edition, for a segment...

The Lab Team
Dec 6, 20185 min read


Press Release: Oil and gas executives working with cleantech and renewable energy entrepreneurs, environmentalists and other unlikely allies
Innovating Alberta’s Energy Future Showcase explores ways Alberta will lead the transition to a low carbon future “There are so many...

Tyler Seed
Apr 10, 20173 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


Five Essential Capacities to Influence the Energy Transition: The Energy Futures Lab Leadership Bootcamp
Navigating the interconnected web of issues surrounding energy, climate change and sustainable development is a complex task. Over the...

Alison Cretney
Oct 18, 20162 min read
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