Advisory Board

William "Billy" Campbell, MD, is the founder of Ramsey Creek, the first exclusively green cemetery in the United States and an organizing board member of the GBC. Widely regarded as the leading authority on using burial as means of facilitating ecological restoration, Billy is also president of Memorial Ecosystems, Inc., a for-profit firm that develops and operates green burial grounds.

Ernest Cook is Senior Vice President and Director of National Programs for the Trust for Public Land and an organizing board member of the GBC. Ernest also serves as President of The Conservation Campaign, a national lobbying and political action organization that serves the land conservation and historic preservation community as an advocate for new government funding for parks and open space protection.

George Frankel is the CEO of Eternal Reefs, Inc., the first reef memorialization company in the world. He is a leading expert on reef memorials and his experience working with regulatory agencies to approve the use of reefs as memorials gives him a complete understanding of the personal, emotional and regulatory issues surrounding green cremation memorialization benefitting the marine environment. He served as a Search and Rescue Specialist for the USCG and is a past VP of the Atlantic Whitewater Club.

Terry Heatlie, PWS, is a habitat restoration specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Great Lakes Habitat Restoration Program. Terry has more than 20 years’ experience in ecological resource assessment in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, planning, permitting, site planning, monitoring, and enforcement.

William Jordan, PhD, is Director of the New Academy of Nature and Culture and an organizing board member of the GBC. He is the founder of the Society for Ecological Restoration and author of several books including "The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature” (University of California Press, 2003).

John Lovasco is the co-founder of Alcos Insurance. A life-long outdoor enthusiast, John is the former president of the board of directors of the Upland Hills School, an independent school specializing in outdoor education/experiential learning and a member of the Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center. John has also consulted numerous nonprofit organizations on risk management and perpetuation strategies.

Rev, Charles Morris has been an ordained Catholic priest since 1983 and is currently on the faculty at Madonna University in Detroit where he teaches courses on sustainability. Rev. Morris has published papers in peer review journals in the fields of environmental justice. His work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning News, the New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, the National Catholic Register and Sierra Magazine. Rolling Stone Magazine named Fr. Morris to it's Honor Roll in 2006. He currently contributes to the Eco-Catholic blog for the online version of the National Catholic Reporter. In 2011 he received a Michigan Green Leader award from the Detroit Free Press.

Stephen Olson is Executive Director of the Royal Oak Burial Park in Victoria, British Columbia, which is Canada’s first GBC approved natural burial ground. He is currently a member of the Cremation, Interment and Funeral Service Advisory Group with the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Authority of BC.

Mark Quigley is an attorney with the firm Greene Broillet & Wheeler in Los Angeles. He is a nationally respected trial attorney representing plaintiffs in insurance bad faith, wrongful death, employment discrimination, legal malpractice, wrongful termination and intellectual property cases.

Kim Sorvig is a landscape architect, design critic, and environmental author and an organizing board member of the GBC. He has over 28 years of experience creating, teaching, and writing about interpretive and sustainable places. He is internationally known for his work as Contributing Editor of Landscape Architecture magazine and as co-author of “Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors” (Island Press, 2000).