The article Can Alberta lead on lowering emissions? Written by Chad Park, Executive Director of The Natural Step Canada, was originally published in the Edmonton Journal.

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This week, international and provincial leaders from science, policy, clean technology, industry and government will gather in Edmonton for Zero 2014, a conference focused on driving the transition to a low-carbon future.

Observers might be forgiven for doing a double take upon reviewing the program. This event is happening in Alberta?

For many outside the province, the notion of Alberta talking about a low-carbon future is highly counterintuitive.

In addition to my work as an associate with The Natural Step, a few months ago I started a YouTube channel called Sustainability Illustrated. The purpose of the channel is to change the world one video at a time by giving people free access to the best sustainability knowledge and processes available.

The article Sustainability-driven Collaboration, Part III: Simplicity without reduction, authentic leadership, and process design written by Chad Park, Executive Director of The Natural Step Canada, is the third blog as part of a series that was originally published on the Social Innovation Generation website.

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In the previous entry in this three-part series on Sustainability-driven Collaboration, I discussed value creation and vision as key drivers of collaboration: how shared and individual value keep collaborators at the table working towards collective goals and how an ambitious, principle-based vision of success (sustainability) can provide creative tension and serve as a powerful driving force for such  multi-stakeholder initiatives.

The article Sustainability-driven Collaboration, Part II: Value Creation and Vision as a Driving Force written by Chad Park, Executive Director of The Natural Step Canada, is the second blog as part of a series that was originally published on the Social Innovation Generation website.

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In the first post of this three-part series, Sustainability-driven Collaboration, I discussed the imperative for profound systems change to address sustainability challenges, which provoked the question: how we can provide a platform for sustainability-driven collaboration in which participants are able to embrace complexity and reframe ‘wicked problems’ as ‘wicked opportunities’?