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William H. Roley, Jr., PhD.
Director, Permaculture Institute of Southern California
 Bill's Convergence Blog
Dr. Bill Roley is an applied ecologist, environmental instructor and watershed planner. He designs strategies to improve sustainable resources for homes, organizations, governments and business. 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. He has consulted and presented internationally on how to incorporate these multifaceted concepts into working sustainable systems. He has assisted the California Department of Water Resources managing the programs for the Southern District on special assignment as a Senior Planner for the County of Orange.
Based on his belief that edible landscaping and urban agroforestry are
the wave of the future, Dr. Roley designed and built Sprout Acres, a
residential demonstration site integrating food, energy and water
cycles in Laguna Beach, California. He is founding Director of the
Permaculture Institute of Southern California and co-founder of the Eos
Institute and its environmental journal Earthword. As core faculty for
the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies, Cal Poly University, Pomona,
his innovative designs have brought Permaculture to the professional
areas of architecture, landscape and engineering.
Dr. Roley is committed to the future planning of economically viable,
environmentally sensitive, and culturally appropriate development
patterns. Some of his Southern California government consultation
includes creating a landscape and composting ordinance for the City of
Irvine; developing wastewater nutrient cycling strategies for City of
Malibu; and studying the Palo Comado watershed for City of Calabasas.
Dr. Roley designed the Laguna Hills Leisure World yard waste composting
project, and has consulted on integrated green waste management
projects for the counties of Orange, Los Angeles, and Ventura. Taught
at UCLA in their Engineering Waste Management program and received
composting education awards from the County of Orange (Trash Bash
Environmental Award, 1999) and the Composting Council's Educator of the
Year Award in 2003.
As a Resource Manager for the Thousand Oaks, Ahmanson Ranch
development, he created a water harvesting, flood control and habitat
restoration master plan to respect the diversity and complexity of the
surrounding ecosystem. Developed home composting educational services
as Sales and Marketing Director of the EarthMachine, Norseman Plastics,
Ontario, Canada. An example of his international work is the design and
installation of agroforestry and sustainable/edible landscapes for an
orphanage landscape in Tijuana, Mexico; an ecotourist biopreserve for
The American Society of Landscape Architecture and Pronatura in the
Yucatan, Mexico; and now working on a binational team restoring the
Tijuana River Estuarine Research Reserve in Imperial Beach, Ca. His
stormwater designs for the Irvine Company and Yum Yum Brands (Taco
Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver) have improved our urban edge.
Dr. Roley believes that our most important human resources are our
children. He has taught in colleges and universities as well as primary
and secondary schools. He brings a contagious enthusiasm and an
academic overview to the public forum and frequently makes
presentations to businesses, professional societies, conferences and
civic groups. He received his undergraduate degrees in Psychology,
Mathematics, and Biology from University of California, Irvine; later
achieving a M.A. Anthropology, and Psychology. His doctorate was
conferred in 1976 for Social Sciences; Anthropology and Psychology,
also from the University of California, Irvine. He has been teaching
Environmental Science at a number of Universities and Colleges for the
last twenty-five years.
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