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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


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 18, 20194 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


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 24, 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 23, 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


Playing with a New Perspective: The Newtonian Shift
“You learn more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation.” – Plato If you look at other human-made systems such as...

Maarten Robben
May 10, 20164 min read


Meeting in the Radical Middle: Shaping a New Energy Futures Narrative
Diversity of opinions makes us stronger as families, Lab participants and frankly, as a nation. Our unique life experiences and...

Delyse Sylvester
Mar 29, 20164 min read


Alberta Real Estate Foundation Announces Support of the EFL
The Energy Futures Lab is very pleased to announce the support of the Alberta Real Estate Foundation (AREF). AREF’s Board of Governors...

The Lab Team
Mar 22, 20163 min read


Do we have time to play games? Do we have time not to?
Imagine 20 years of energy transition condensed into an immersive half day simulation. The Newtonian Shift drops you into the outdated,...

Tyler Seed
Mar 21, 20164 min read


Megan Zimmerman & Barend Dronkers: What is Community Energy?
On February 16th, Calgary Economic Development and the Pembina Institute co-hosted the Alberta Community Energy workshop . More than 80...

Megan Zimmerman
Mar 15, 20163 min read
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