Ualberta Energy Club

we are in a pivotal era when the growing energy requirements of global society far exceed its capacity to generate power without negatively impacting the environment. the ecological and economic consequences of not addressing this trend in the present are not well understood nor appreciated while the growing consensus is that we can no longer afford to ignore the issue without further compounding the problem. as the citizens of developing nations come to expect increased standards of living, it is ever more crucial that solutions are found and implemented which are compatible with both economic and environmental systems. the province of alberta, canada, is a major player in traditional (coal, natural gas, oil) and, through increasing investment, renewable energy supply (wind, solar, thermal, biomass). as a university, it is therefore incumbent upon us to provide strong (idea-based) visionary leadership that reflects the latest understanding of the ecological relationships between socie