Advisory Board

Tracy Auclair is a funeral consumer advocate and doctoral student at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to assiting the Council with compliance matters, Tracy is also the Vice President of the board of the California Funeral Consumers Alliance.

William "Billy" Campbell, MD, is the founder of Ramsey Creek, the first exclusively green cemetery in the United States. 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. 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.

Brian Flowers is the Cemetarian and Green Burial Coordinator for Greenacres Memorial Park and Moles Family Funeral Homes and Crematory in Northwest Washington State. Brian developed and oversees operations for the first Natural Burial Ground in an existing traditional cemetery to be certified by the Green Burial Council.

William Jordan, PhD, is Director of the New Academy of Nature and Culture, and Co-Editor of “Restoration Ecology: A Synthetic Approach to Ecological Research” (Cambridge University Press, 1990). 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.

Dave McCament is a licensed funeral director and faculty member at Cypress College where he teaches in the department of mortuary science. Dave has been assisting the GBC in developing a green funeral service curriculum for the American Board of Funeral Service Education.

Kim Sorvig is a landscape architect, design critic, and environmental author. 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).