Cemeteries![]() Candace Currie has been a board member of the green Burial Council for more than eight years, shepherding the GBC through reorganization and growth. She is a former administrator at Mt. Auburn Cemetery and Arboretum in Cambridge, MA, the cemetery that continues to set the example for premiere historical hybrid cemetery management in the US. She has been deeply involved in revitalizing the Green Burial Council and steering Green Burial Massachusetts as it looks for possible conservation burial land. Candace@greenburialcouncil.org
Products![]() Sam Bar is a graduate of Northeastern University, Sam worked as a quality assurance and manufacturing engineer for companies in both the United States and China. In 2011, he joined the US Peace Corps as an education volunteer in Mozambique, where he taught at a secondary school and coordinated a national science program. As our go-to expert on sustainability issues in manufacturing and product use, Sam draws on his diverse manufacturing expertise and global development exposure to ensure our product providers represent the values of green burial. Sam@greenburialcouncil.org
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Funeral Homes![]() Aleta Cardinal is a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in Wisconsin. Originally from Central Illinois, she has a bachelor's degree in Mortuary Science and Funeral Service from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. She loves helping families as a funeral director and educating the public about different aspects of the funeral industry and the choices available to them. She is also an environmental advocate, and loves the idea of getting back to the roots of our culture; including taking care of our own loved ones when they pass. Aleta@greenburialcouncil.org
![]() Shawn LaValleur Adame is a wife, mother, Sacred Passages death midwife and funeral celebrant, notary public, licensed funeral director, and owner & founder of DIY DYING, a licensed funeral establishment in Long Beach, CA. Shawn started her career in the funeral industry in 2006. She began as a DC Specialist and office manager at the Omega Society, in Orange County, CA, where she worked for 6 years. She was then recruited to Area Manager for Smart Cremation, Accu-Care Cremation Centers, and Gateway Crematory serving So Cal. She then opened Argos Funeral Services, in Torrance, CA. Her current business, DIY DYING, offers before and after death care services, living & home funerals, green burials on land and at sea as well as cremation services.
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![]() Sam Perry is a dual licensed mortician (Indiana & Illinois), green burial advocate and death educator. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mortuary Science and Funeral Service from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is working on his Master of Science in Education from there as well. He currently works as an Anatomy Curator and as an Adjunct Professor teaching Changing Landscapes in Funeral Service. He hosts Death Cafés in his community and believes that through death and loss we can find tools for learning to live stronger more whole lives. Samuelp@greenburialcouncil.org
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