The Trust for Sustainable Development's Board of Advisors is an international pool of experts whose combined expertise assists the Trust in obtaining the highest practical standards of sustainable development. The guidance and information provided by these distinguished, practicing professionals is considered one of the most valuable resources available to the Trust.
Andres Duany
Mr. Duany is America's best known town planner, and has completed over three hundred town plans including plans for the New Towns of Seaside, FL which was referred to by TIME magazine as “the most astounding design achievement of its era”, Kentlands, Bamberton and Civano, as well as developing new master plans for existing city centers in Trenton, Providence and Los Angeles among others.
Mr. Duany is one of the founders of the Duany Plater-Zyberk firm which he founded along with wife Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. He also founded the Congress for the New Urbanism, where he continues to serve on the Board of Directors. Established in 1993 with the mission of reforming urban growth patterns, the Congress has been characterized by The New York Times as “the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years.” As well, he is the author of model legislation, development ordinances and urban codes for both new and existing towns throughout North America including The Urban Transect Theory.
Andrés Duany has delivered hundreds of lectures and seminars, addressing architects, planning groups, university students, and the general public. His recent publications include The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. Andrés received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University, and after a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he received a master’s degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. He has been awarded several honorary doctorates, the Brandeis Award for Architecture, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal of Architecture from the University of Virginia, the Vincent J. Scully Prize for exemplary practice and scholarship in architecture and urban design from the National Building Museum, and the Seaside Prize for contributions to community planning and design from the Seaside Institute.
Andres was the lead architect/planner for Bamberton and participated in the plans for Civano and The Villages of Loreto Bay.
Jeff Speck
Mr. Speck is the director of design, overseeing grant-making in that field, at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington. He graduated magna cum laude from Williams College. He has two master's degrees, one in art history from Syracuse University and another in architecture from Harvard.
Jeff Speck was one of the chief planners for Bamberton, Civano and The Villages of Loreto Bay.
Donna Morton
Donna Morton is the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Integral Economics. She has extensive experience in building relationships between business and non-profits, strategic policy development, communications and government relations. She was recently recognized by Ashoka Foundation as a leader in social change innovation.
William G. Reed, AIA, LEED
An internationally recognized proponent and practitioner in sustainability and an architect, Bill is president of the Integrative Design Collaborative — a consulting organization working to lift green building design practice into one that is fully integrated with living systems. He is an ally of the regenerative planning firm Regenesis and the strategic environmental planning firm Natural Logic. His work centers on creating the framework for and managing the integrative, whole-systems design process by embedding the laws of nature at the heart of enterprise. He emphasizes building evolutionary capability in design, construction, and engagement with our environment. The objective is to improve the overall quality of the physical, social and spiritual life of our living places.
Bill serves on the US Green Building Council LEED Development Committee as well as the AIA’s Executive Committee and has been a key consultant for the green strategies at Loreto Bay.
Doug Makaroff, BA, MCS, MCIP
Mr. Makaroff has over 19 years experience as an urban planning and real estate professional, most of which have focused on applying the principles of Sustainability and New Urbanism to highly marketable real estate projects. As a principal of a previous firm he completed numerous downtown revitalization plans, land use bylaws and official community plans for public sector clients, as well as rezoning and development plans for private sector developers. From 1997 to 2003, he partnered with David Butterfield on the development of the award-winning mixed-use Shoal Point condominium project in Victoria, B.C.
In 1997, Mr. Makaroff also became the Vice-President of The Trust for Sustainable Development and was responsible for the planning of the Community of Civano in Arizona and much of the early planning for The Villages of Loreto Bay in Mexico. From Dec 2003 to May 2006, he was the VP of Planning and Permitting for the remarkably successful Loreto Bay Company.
Doug is President and CEO of Living Forest Planning Consultants, and is responsible for the success of the Elkington Forest project, a 1000 acre forest, 35 minutes north of Victoria, BC. A full 850 acres is conserved as Forest Stewardship Council certified eco-forestry or outright conservation with limited or restricted access. On the remaining 150 acres, half of the land is in food production, and half is developed as three attractive residential Hamlets with a total of 77 homes and 15 eco-businesses.
He is committed to establishing this innovative community by utilizing tested and proven economic and environmental principles.
Educated at the University of Saskatchewan (B.A. in Urban Planning) and Regent College (M.C.S.), Mr. Makaroff is a registered Urban Planner with the Canadian Institute of Planning.
Tom Horton
Tom Horton founded Canopy Development in 2004 and brings more than 25 years of community-focused real estate development and project finance experience to the company. Canopy is a new kind of land development company that creates vibrant destination villages in pristine natural environments with a focus on healthy living and environmental sustainability.
For the ten years prior to founding Canopy, Tom served as US Managing Director of The Trust for Sustainable Development (TSD) and VP Corporate Development of the Loreto Bay Company, a TSD affiliate company. The Villages of Loreto Bay, a series of seaside villages planned for 6,000 homes and an 5,000 acre natural preserve in Baja California, Mexico, is the largest sustainable resort community under development in North America. Tom secured the initial financing for the 2.6 billion dollar project and also served as the first Sustainability Officer for Loreto Bay, helping establish the Loreto Bay Foundation and drafting the aggressive sustainability standards for that project.
Prior to his work for TSD and Loreto Bay, Tom worked as a Program Director for the Rodale Institute, a non-profit organization that works with people worldwide to achieve a regenerative food system that renews and improves environmental and human health. Tom also formed and continues to run Sustainable Resources, a company that develops and finances alternative energy initiatives in developing economies.
Tom lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife, Sarah and their three children.
Jason Mogus
Jason Mogus is the President and CEO of Communicopia, an internet marketing and communications company that helps socially responsible and non-profit companies find their voice on-line. A serial entrepreneur, Jason has held senior roles in technology start-ups since 1995. At Communicopia he provides strategic guidance to a variety of socially conscious firms.
Jason is a partner and board member with BC Technology Social Venture Partners. He is the founder and convener of the Web of Change conference at Hollyhock Retreat Centre, and is an executive member of the Mobile MUSE wireless research project. A certified “ePhilanthropy Master Trainer” by the Washington DC based ePhilanthropy Foundation, in 2001 he was awarded Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 Under 40" and led Communicopia to receiving the BC Technology Industry Association's first "Leadership in Social Responsibility" Award.
Jason is passionate about supporting social change through communications, technology, and philanthropy. A popular presenter and speaker, he has been featured in international media such as the New York Times, National Post, CBC Newsworld, The Guardian, CNN.com, and CBC's The National.
Michael Ogden, P.E.
NSI is a Santa Fe firm founded in 1989 with the goal of applying low cost, energy efficient natural systems to the problems of wastewater and stormwater. Michael Ogden is the founding director and principal engineer, leading a team of professionals that provide comprehensive specialized engineering services in the area of biological wastewater treatment systems using the natural ecologies of ponds (wastewater lagoons), marshes (constructed wetlands), prairies, grasslands (land application/irrigation), and woodlands and forests (irrigation).
Under Michael’s direction, NSI has worked on more than 500 projects in over 40 states, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, China, Afghanistan, and Australia. Placing extra emphasis on both creativity and economics, NSI specializes in the implementation of natural treatment system designs using native plant species to treat municipal, commercial, residential, industrial, mine tailings, landfill leachate and agricultural wastewater as well as storm run-off. Together with other experts, this leading edge team is quite literally "writing the book" for the foundation of a new environmental remediation industry. Their work has been featured on a PBS documentary, in the New York Times and on ABC World News Tonight’s “American Agenda”. Two of the founders, Campbell and Ogden have written a textbook, published by John Wiley and Sons entitled “Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape”.
Active Associations and Memberships
Social Ventures Network (SVN)
SVN is a community of leaders — company founders, private investors, social entrepreneurs and key influencers — who share a commitment to building a just and sustainable world through business.”
According to David Butterfield, “The people I’ve met through Social Venture Network have become great friends and valuable advisers. This community of committed business leaders is proving that sustainable development can be good for people, good for the environment and good for business.”