ECOCONSORTIUM
WILLIAM H. ROLEY, PHD. - APPLIED ECOLOGIST
William H. Roley, PhD. is an applied ecologist, environmental instructor and consultant who designs strategies to improve sustainable resources for homes, organizations, governments and businesses. He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health. Dr. Roley has consulted and presented internationally on how to incorporate these multifaceted concepts into working sustainable systems.
Some examples of past projects include designing a healthy watershed series for the County of Orange; a landscape and composting ordinance for the City of Irvine, CA; wastewater nutrient cycling strategies for the City of Malibu; water harvesting, flood control and habitat restoration master plan for the Thousand Oaks, Ahmanson Ranch development; agroforestry and sustainable/edible landscapes for an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico and Porte Alegre, Brazil; ecotourism biopreserves for The American Society of Landscape Architecture and Pronatura in the Yucatan, Mexico; ecotourism biopreserves in El Pilar, Belize for the UCSB Mesoamerican Institute.
Dr. Roley is founding director of the Permaculture Institute of Southern California, co-founder of the Eos Institute and its environmental journal Earthword, the director of the Ecological Restoration certificate program at Saddleback College and teaches biology at Soka University.
Some examples of past projects include designing a healthy watershed series for the County of Orange; a landscape and composting ordinance for the City of Irvine, CA; wastewater nutrient cycling strategies for the City of Malibu; water harvesting, flood control and habitat restoration master plan for the Thousand Oaks, Ahmanson Ranch development; agroforestry and sustainable/edible landscapes for an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico and Porte Alegre, Brazil; ecotourism biopreserves for The American Society of Landscape Architecture and Pronatura in the Yucatan, Mexico; ecotourism biopreserves in El Pilar, Belize for the UCSB Mesoamerican Institute.
Dr. Roley is founding director of the Permaculture Institute of Southern California, co-founder of the Eos Institute and its environmental journal Earthword, the director of the Ecological Restoration certificate program at Saddleback College and teaches biology at Soka University.