The Green Burial Council Leadership Award

The Green Burial Council Leadership Award is presented to an individual, organization, or business that has demonstrated foresight, innovation and extraordinary commitment to the environment through sustainability and attainability in the area of human death care practices. 

Past Recipients

Suzanne Kelly​, author of Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth and administrator for the Town of Rhinebeck Cemetery where they opened a natural burial ground in 2014.

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Amy Browne, Tony Hale, Brian Wilson, and Jeremy Kaplan, co-producers of A Will for the Woods, the award-winning film that documents a man searching for a final resting place who becomes the inspiration for creating green burial space.

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Shari Wolf​, funeral director and owner of Natural Grace, a firm dealing completely in natural body care and burial, and pioneer, educator, activist, and early adopter of eco-friendly death and after death options.

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Dyanne Matzkevich of Pine Forest Memorial Gardens in Wake Forest, North Carolina, for her work in creating green burial space for Clark Wang, the subject of A Will for the Woods.

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