Adam Kenyon vividly remembers his mother teaching him the classic adage as a young child that, if you ever borrow something, you should always return it in as good or better condition than when you borrowed it. As CEO of Boulder’s ProGreen Solar, it’s a sentiment that Adam carries with him in his mission to find practical, accessible solutions to increase solar adoption.
“I see myself as living on borrowed time on a borrowed planet,” Adam says. “I don’t want to pass the world on to my kids and to future generations in worse shape than during the time I had the opportunity to benefit from it. Doing our part to reduce carbon emissions through green energy is helping us achieve that ‘better’ status, which should be the ultimate goal.”
ProGreen Solar is a partner company to Boulder’s GreenPoint Roofing, which has been serving the roofing and solar needs of Boulder residents for over a decade. Adam’s company was founded with the intent to focus solely on sustainable energy applications and to build world-class solar systems for home and business owners throughout Colorado.
A Colorado native, Adam admits that the corporate world was never quite the right fit for him. Driven by an innate need to know that he was helping create a better world in his professional endeavors, Adam homed in on providing approachably priced green energy solutions to, as he puts it, quite literally build a brighter future for everyone.
“A lot of people underestimate the impact that global warming and human-caused climate change will have,” Adam says. “But it’s scientific fact, and its impact is already very real. If we don’t start making progress in the green energy sector, future generations are all at a greater risk of an adverse world.”
Why is solar an optimal green energy solution? As Adam notes, the sun doesn’t charge us to shine, and it is the most universally practical, least pollutant omitting and easiest to harness natural energy resource. And while implementing solar energy was once only accessible to the affluent, companies like ProGreen Solar are making it a more realistic option for people of all economic statuses. All of these factors combine to make residential rooftop solar in particular an ideal economical, topographical and environmentally friendly option.
Adam also notes that solar energy will benefit future generations in myriad ways. First, solar adoption will allow society as a whole more abundant access to the most fundamental resource for cultural development—energy.
“Making clean energy more readily available via a sustainable means like solar will have a tremendous impact on the advancement of civilization as a whole,” Adam says.
There are also financial benefits on both a macro and micro level. From personal energy savings to recouping the astronomical costs of responding to extreme weather instances—which Adam notes that scientists say will only increase in magnitude and frequency with ongoing emissions—the monetary benefits and their compounding effects are inimitable.
Adam looks forward to continuing his ProGreen Solar mission by working with emerging technologies to not just offset new CO2 emissions via solar, but to help sequester them as well.
“The best time to act on these problems was yesterday,” says Adam. “But the second best time? Right now.”