In our latest installment of Planting the Seed, Tyler Seed discuses how COP 21 marks a historical milestone in an evolving global consensus around the urgency, and inevitability, of transition to a clean energy future as well as a major shift in the way we understand and discuss climate change.
This past Sunday I attended briefings and the big announcement about Alberta’s new Climate Leadership Plan. Many friends of the Energy Futures Lab (EFL) were also in attendance – Fellows, partners, and Steering Committee members. I was asked on a number of occasions, “what does this mean for the Energy Futures Lab?”
The desire to shape the future, not just cope with it or react to it, is deeply embedded in Alberta’s culture. Executive Director of the Natural Step, Chad Park, discusses the opportunities ahead for Alberta – and how the Energy Futures Lab is seizing the moment.
Read the official launch announcement for the Energy Futures Lab.
The desire to shape the future, not just cope with it or react to it, is deeply embedded in Alberta’s culture. Executive Director of the Natural Step, Chad Park, discusses the opportunities ahead for Alberta – and how the Energy Futures Lab is seizing the moment.
In the first installment of Planting the Seed, our blogger, Tyler Seed gives you an overview of the inaugural Energy Futures Lab workshop. In the coming months, he will be following developments in the Energy Futures Lab, touching base with a number of the Fellows, and tracking EFL public engagement efforts.
As Alberta begins grappling with the energy challenges of the 21st century, Alex Nnamonu, Executive Director of Major Legislative Project and Strategic Planning at Alberta Municipal Affairs is thinking beyond technology, beyond numbers. He’s thinking about soccer.
As the reality of sliding oil prices settled in last year, Premier Jim Prentice described the province’s fiscal situation as “the most challenging financial and economic circumstances we’ve seen in our province in a generation.”
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