Lucy Blake

{{Short description|American conservationist}}

Lucy Blake is an American conservationist, President of the Northern Sierra Partnership.{{cite web|title=Staff & Governing Council|url=http://northernsierrapartnership.org/about-nsp/staff-governing-council/|website=Northern Sierra Partnership|accessdate=5 July 2016|archive-date=14 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814024810/http://northernsierrapartnership.org/about-nsp/staff-governing-council/|url-status=dead}} She was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow.{{Cite web|date=July 1, 2000|access-date=April 9, 2025|title=Lucy Blake |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2000/lucy-blake |work=MacArthur Fellows Program}} She founded the Sierra Business Council in 1994 and won the Pat Brown Award.{{cite web|title=Mary Nichols wins the 2013 Pat Brown Award for leadership on cap-and-trade.|url=http://www.cceeb.org/events/pba.html|work=PAT BROWN AWARD|publisher=California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance|accessdate=10 April 2013|archive-date=6 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106180833/http://www.cceeb.org/events/pba.html|url-status=dead}} While with the SBC, the council published Planning for Prosperity (1997), a set of principles for land-use planning in rural communities, and the Sierra Nevada Wealth Index (1996), which describes the community's well-being based on social, economic, and environmental health. Blake works for the Department of Energy on energy and natural resources.{{cite web|title=Obama Administration: Key Positions|url=http://livableworld.org/news/obama_key_positions/|work=Obama Administration positions as of December 2010|publisher=A Council for a Livable World|accessdate=10 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118063946/http://livableworld.org/news/obama_key_positions/|archive-date=18 January 2013|url-status=dead}}