BioRegional North America's Board of Directors provide strategic direction for One Planet Communities in the United States and Canada; BioRegional UK's co-founders, as founders of One Planet Communities, also provide strong guidance.

Bob and his firm are setting new design standards for resource efficiency at the building and community scales including energy, materials and human resources on abroad range of projects including Greening of the White House, Greening of the Pentagon, Greening of the Grand Canyon, two facilities at the University of Texas at Houston, and Noisette, a ground-breaking 3,000-acre redevelopment in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Bob is a board member of the U.S. Green Building Council, the Nature Conservancy and the Center for Global Community and has been a juror and/or guest lecturer at numerous universities from Harvard to Rice to Cambridge University. He was a delegate to the Earth Summit in Rio and has presented keynote speeches, lectures and workshops at international environmental conferences in Stockholm, Helsinki, Cambridge, Caracas, Vancouver, and Ottawa. Governors, U.S. Senators and Representatives, and organizations such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute seek his advice and participation.

Rich Franko (Seattle) is a Principal at Mithun, Architects+Designers+Planners, an integrated design firm in Seattle, Rohnert Park. He has been a leader at Mithun for the design of green communities, buildings and the creation of new tools to analyze and aid the process of understanding the environmental impacts of settlement.

His current projects include, a new Museum for the Suquamish Tribes, carbon neutral Farm-worker Housing, a low impact neighborhood in Oregon, a vision study for three valleys north of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a vision plan for the Tulalip Tribe in Tulalip, Rohnert Park. He has completed two LEED certified Gold projects; Islandwood, an environmental learning center for children on Bainbridge Island and the Yesler Community Center in an inner city neighborhood of Seattle. He has developed strategies to create resource efficient strategies for all projects at Mithun. Rich was a leader on the Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan which received national AIA and ASLA honor awards. The plan uses an eco-system based analysis of resource flow modelling to inform the design of urban places.

Rich is also a board member of the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, a joint venture of Stanford University and the institute for Policy Studies.

Rich has lectured in the US and abroad and has presented at Greenbuild, EnvironDesign and SB002 in Oslo.

A graduate of the Freie Universität Berlin (History, Comparative Literature and International Law), she received her master's degree from Oxford University and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She published widely on European identity and the European public sphere with a specific focus on the interwar years. Her broader research interests include crisis prevention and crisis management by governments and international organisations, in particular in the Middle East.

Dr. Orluc is also member and serving on the board of several institutions and foundations, such as the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution (Rohnert Park ROHNERT PARK); Countdown 2010, IUCN (Geneva/Brussels), a network of active partners working together towards the 2010 biodiversity target; Sea Routes Foundation (New York/New Deli), promoting cultures and peoples on the coasts and waterways throughout the world with a particular emphasis on water projects; the CaspianMiddleEast Consultancy (London/Istanbul); the Foto+Synthesis Foundation (New York/Berlin) and Lebenszeichen (New York/Berlin).

Virginia Jamieson (San Francisco/Toronto) is a freelance public relations guru, and is the former Vice-President, Consumer Technology PR at Bite Communications in San Francisco. Virginia has over twelve years of public relations experience in the areas of environmental sustainability, consumer technology, and enterprise technology. She is a well-known media relations expert that has secured hundreds of 'front page' articles for her clients.

Virginia has executed award-winning PR campaigns for environmental companies including ECO2 Plastics, Inc., EcoSmart, and Sun Microsystems' Eco-Responsibility campaign. She has worked for tech giants including, HP, Apple, Network Associates and Adobe; small new growth companies/start-ups; and various communications agencies. Virginia has owned and sold her own PR agency, Parachute Marketing, and now runs the Media Relations practice for Bite PR Worldwide.

Virginia has achieved exceptional results in all communications disciplines including, strategic communications, event planning and execution, messaging & positioning, web content development, events, collateral and materials development, public relations, media relations, branding, issues management, negotiations, crisis management, sponsorships, media training, executive counseling, government, employee and community relations. Virginia has solid agency and corporate technology marketing experience. She brings with her stellar track record of solid PR strategy and execution, analyst relations, tradeshow/event planning and execution.

Virginia is an aggressive, outgoing team player who developed her competitive spirit while racing for the Canadian Downhill Ski Team. She currently runs competitively for the Nike Running Team in San Francisco.

Pooran is a founding director of BioRegional Quintain Ltd. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In 1994, he co-founded the environmental organization BioRegional Development Group.

He has worked on projects in sustainable farming, forestry, recycling & eco-housing. Work on local woodland management led Pooran to establishing the BioRegional Charcoal Company, which supplies national retailers such as B&Q with local charcoal and firewood. The company has won a number of awards including a Securicor Small Business Award, Lord Mayor of London’s Dragon Award and a Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food award for Science into Practice.

In 1998, he drew together the partnership to construct Beddington Zero (fossil) Energy Development (BedZED), the UK’s largest eco-village development. The project was developed by housing association The Peabody Trust in partnership with BioRegional Development Group. BedZED won the 2002 International Energy Globe Award, 2003 Evening Standard Lifestyles Award and was shortlisted for the 2003 Stirling Prize.

Pooran chaired the Homes and Environment group of ACCPE (the UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment), has sat on the steering group of Buildings Research Establishment’s EcoHomes group and WWF’s One Million Sustainable Homes taskforce.

He has been a consultant to central government, local authorities and developers, including a 6,000 home zero carbon development in Portugal and concepts for a 2000 home zero carbon and zero waste community for the Thames Gateway.

In 2002 he was commissioned with Sue Riddlestone to write “BioRegional Solutions for Living on One Planet”, a briefing for the Schumacher Society. The book uses examples of BioRegional projects to show the scope for local economic development to deliver environmental benefits. In 2007, with Paul King, Pooran authored “One Planet Living® – A guide to enjoying life on our one planet”.

In 2004, Pooran was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to sustainable development and in 2007 was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.