Rob Strang’s convictions are deeply rooted in his experience. He grew up in Scarborough at a time when kids could still play in fields and streams. As a young chemical engineering student at Queen’s University, his thesis was to produce ethanol from farm waste. Today, he’s a founding member of the Power-Up Renewable Energy Co-op.

Rob first came to Dufferin County in the 1980s with a group of friends who bought Mansfield Outdoor Centre, which still thrives as a local business. In 1988, he left an environmental, health and safety supervisor’s job in Toronto to move to Dufferin, where he soon started his own industrial hygiene company. He’s lived here ever since with his wife, Bernadette Hardaker, and their three daughters.

Rob has been a panel member on the Ontario Environmental Appeal Board, served as an Orangeville town councillor, and has been active in the Green Party since 1999. He is an avid cross-country skier, organic gardener and paddler.