Bill Wilson, Board Member

Bill Wilson is President of Bill Wilson Environmental Planning, LLC, an international sustainable planning and environmental consulting firm. Mr. Wilson specializes in environmental engineering, wastewater, renewable energy and water quality planning. 

Wilson is a Co-Founder and President Emeritus of Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF). AMRF is credited with discovery of the prevalence of plastics in the World’s oceans. AMRF and fellow Co-Founder Capt. Charles Moore produced the seminal documentary film, The Synthetic Sea, revealing the impacts of fugitive plastic pollution on marine ecosystems.

Wilson is a Founding Partner of FOP Development Group LLC, an international leader in developing financial resources for municipalities in the upgrade of vital water and energy infrastructure, renewables, and decentralized recycled water. FOP has created breakthrough technology for distributed energy installations using scaled Variable Flow Hydroturbines, wastewater treatment approaches that radically lower energy costs and produce recycled water, and numerous other integrated environmental approaches to basic infrastructure. 

Mr. Wilson is a US EPA Registered Wastewater Consultant and a founding member of both the California Onsite Wastewater Association (COWA) and the USGBC LEED Water Efficiency Technical Advisory Committee. He has degrees in Biology and Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a post-graduate certification from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.