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Robert Blake Highlight
If we could get all kinds of different people involved in [solar energy] so they feel like they’re part of the solution too, then we’re going to have a better world.
About Robert
- After college, I started my career in public safety.
- After a few years, I moved on to work for the USDA, protecting agriculture and natural resources, and providing resource management and policy coordination.
- A combination of things—Hurricane Katrina, Davis Guggenheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” and a climate change book I’d read—inspired me to want to make a difference in the climate change space.
- I started learning about solar energy by watching YouTube videos, reading magazines, and attending the Midwest Renewable Energy Association’s solar training academy.
- I started my career in solar energy as a senior solar ambassador and solar organizer.
- When my tribe was looking to put a solar system on top of the government center, I saw it as a great opportunity to create Solar Bear, a solar development company.
- In addition to my work with Solar Bear, I’m also the executive director for Native Sun Community Power Development a native-led nonprofit that promotes renewable energy.
