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Green Burial Council Conference 2020 Video Recordings Are Available Now!

Whether you missed the conference, or want to revisit a session that offered just the information you need, you can now purchase the recordings and gain permanent access to one session or the whole conference. See order form at the bottom of the page.

Keynote and Plenary Speakers

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The Green Burial Movement in 2020: How Far We’ve Come                             $29
Mark Harris is a former environmental columnist with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the author of Grave Matters, the book that launched the green burial movement. His articles and essays have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Reader’s Digest, E: The Environmental Magazine, Hope, and Vegetarian Times. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. For Grave Matters, Mark was interviewed by Fresh Air host, Terry Gross, and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, and the CBC. His views on green burial and funeral matters have been reported on in the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and People magazine, among others. Working with the board of the Fountain Hill Cemetery in eastern Pennsylvania, he established the first natural burial ground in the Lehigh Valley, Green Meadow. www.gravematters.us

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Conservation Cemetery Restoration                                                                         $29
​Billy Campbell, MD, had been talking about conservation burial in the context of land restoration for years before opening Ramsey Creek Preserve in Westminster, South Carolina, in 1998 with his wife, Kimberley. The preserve has served as a laboratory for developing the specific techniques for green interment and project design. It was here that Billy developed most of the standards for what is now known as conservation burial. Dr. Campbell has spoken to numerous groups over the years, including the Natural Areas Association, the Society for Ecological Restoration, the Land Trust Alliance and many others. He is pleased to share his deep commitment to restoration best practices. ​ www.memorialecosystems.com

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The Legal Landscape of Green Burial                                                                      $29
Tanya D. Marsh, JD, is a professor at the Wake Forest University School of Law where she teaches courses in Property, Decedents, Trusts, and Estates, and the only law school course in Funeral and Cemetery Law in the United States. Tanya is the author of The Law of Human Remains (2015) and the co-author of Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States (2015). She is a frequent speaker on topics related to the regulatory and legal structure of the funeral industry and the American cemetery, with a depth of knowledge and sharp wit that can't be matched. Tanya lays out the basics of cemetery law and how they support and befuddle us when trying to open green burial space. ​www.deathetseq.com

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Designing a Green Burial Cemetery: Issues and Opportunities                       $29
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Jack Goodnoe, BA, MA, has been planning cemeteries for over thirty-five years and has operated his own cemetery-design firm since 1998 focusing exclusively on strategic land-use planning and site design for cemeteries. He believes that all cemetery planning and design must address business, operational, aesthetic, and environmental requirements simultaneously. Jack’s presentation focuses on how to design a cemetery that benefits both the environment and the families they will serve, and creates inspiring settings that work well day to day, and over the decades. www.jackgoodnoe.com

Panels

Making Natural Burial Happen: How We Did It                                                                                                          $29
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CemeteryKimberley Campbell, manages the day-to-day operations of Ramsey Creek Preserve with her husband, Dr. Billy Campbell. Ramsey Creek is celebrating its twenty-second year as the first green burial ground in the US, and first conservation cemetery in the world. Kimberley's work has helped shape the interpersonal side of cemetery management, "healing broken hearts and broken landscapes" by offering a different alternative. Kimberley shares how she participated in getting Ramsey Creek on the map. www.memorialecosystems.com
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— Conservation Cemetery

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Pete McQuillin and his wife, Nancy Chubb, started Green Burial Pittsburgh in 2008, a nonprofit that provides green burial education and advocacy in western Pennsylvania. In 2011, Pete and Nancy, along with eighteen other investors and countless volunteers, opened Penn Forest Natural Burial Park, a GBC-certified natural burial ground.in Verona, Pennsylvania. Pete has been its manager since then. In addition to the cemetery, Penn Forest also runs Returning Home Farm, a sustainability demonstration project that includes livestock (goats, sheep, ducks, chickens, bunnies, honeybees, and Jingles, the donkey), farm-to-table gardens, and events for the public  such as yoga with goats, birds and bees education, tree identification walks, and more.  www.pennforestcemetery.com
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Candace Currie is a former administrator at Mt. Auburn Cemetery and Arboretum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the cemetery that continues to set the example for premiere cemetery management in the United States. She has been deeply involved in revitalizing the Green Burial Council and steering Green Burial Massachusetts as it looks for possible conservation burial land. She helps us identify the concerns, obstacles, and procedures that led Mt. Auburn to the decision to include green burial opportunities. www.GreenBurialMA.org
— Historical Hybrid Cemetery

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Dan N. Kantar has been in cemetery management for twenty-five-plus years. He currently manages Adath Yeshurun Cemetery established in 1885 located in Edina, Minnesota, and Mound Cemetery of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, established in 1862. Mound Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery with burial of all faiths. Dan is a member of Minnesota Association of Cemeteries and Twin City Association of Cemetery Officials, and has a Minnesota insurance license (Life Health) for the pre-planning and funding of funerals. Dan is on the board of directors of both cemeteries, and has been involved in the design and expansion of both. www.moundcemetery.com
— Hybrid Cemetery


Faith Communities, Social Justice, and Green Burial                                                                                              $29
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Basil Eldadah is committed to the vision of restoring our relationship with the natural cycle of life, death, and renewal. This vision led him to co-found Remembrance Park, a multi-faith urban green burial ground in development in Silver Spring, Maryland. In his day job, he is a physician and scientist working for a biomedical research funding agency. He is a husband to Mona, his life partner of twenty years, and a loving father of four wonderful children.
​www.remembrance-park.org

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Joan Gecik has worked in parishes for forty-three years in a variety of ministry positions prior to becoming the executive director of The Catholic Cemeteries in January 2019. She has worked with planning and conducting funerals for both the parishes she has worked at, as well as an independent celebrant for planning and conducting ecumenical services. She had been actively involved in the planning for natural burial with Catholic Cemeteries prior to her hiring and has overseen the opening of the natural burial site in May 2019 at Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota Heights, Minnesota.  ​www.catholic-cemeteries.org

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Rev. Bill Gupton serves as senior minister at the Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Four years ago, with his encouragement, the church created a separate, non-profit entity called Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary, with a mission of creating the Cincinnati area's first dedicated green burial ground. This year, Heritage Acres will open to the public, preserving forty acres of meadows and woodlands, while offering the region its only completely natural burial preserve. The church also is home to an end-of-life ministry team that makes home funerals available to those who request them. www.heritageacresmemorial.org

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Holly Blue Hawkins is a natural deathcare advocate, community organizer, author, storyteller, musician, and poet. For over twenty years she has been performing the traditional Jewish sacred ceremonies of Taharah and Sh’mirah, washing, dressing and caring for the dead. As Rosha (“Head”) of The Santa Cruz Community Chevrah Kadisha in California, faculty with Gamliel Institute, and co-founder of the Natural Deathcare Initiative, Holly Blue provides training in a wide variety of end-of-life subjects in both Jewish and secular settings. She is a member of the Green Burial Council’s Speakers Bureau, has served on the Board of Trustees of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of California, is an annual presenter at Limmud UK, and is a graduate and guest presenter with Final Passages. She presents internationally on a wide variety of topics related to death, dying, and sustainable after-death care. www.LastRespectsConsulting.com

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​Lucinda Herring has worked at the cutting edge of the green funeral movement for more than twenty years, beginning with others in the 1990s to quietly care for loved ones after death. She is a home funeral, green disposition consultant and guide, an interfaith minister, storyteller, and licensed funeral director in the state of Washington. Lucinda speaks regularly about her work, and offers advance after-death care planning, home funeral and green disposition education and trainings, and celebrant/ministerial services for families and communities who are reclaiming their innate right to care for each other and the earth at the end of life. www.lucindaherring.com

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The Rev. Cody J. Sanders, PhD is pastor to Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he also serves as American Baptist Chaplain to Harvard University, and Advisor for LGBTQ+ Affairs in the Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life at MIT. He teaches pastoral care and counseling on the adjunct faculty of Chicago Theological Seminary (and previously at Andover Newton Theological School) where he incorporates into his courses practical theologies of the corpse and pastoral perspective on how we care for our bodies when we die. His recent publication on the topic, "Mor(t)al Remains: Pastoral Theology & Corpse Care," appeared in the Journal of Pastoral Theology in 2019. He has published five books, including, A Brief Guide to Ministry with LGBTQIA Youth. www.oldcambridgebaptist.org

Workshops

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Session 1: Writing Cemetery Guidebooks for Families                                       $23
Candace Currie  has witnessed both conventional and green burial during her twenty years at a rural historic cemetery, Mount Auburn in Cambridge, highlighting the ‘grief-advantage’ when family and friends actively participate in the ritual of burial. The more participation, the better. The environmental benefits of green burial are what started Candace on the path to educate others about it. She volunteers with both Green Burial Massachusetts and with the Green Burial Council, and is the president of Green Burial Massachusetts Cemetery. Candace explains the basics of consumer-centered guidebooks to ensure that families are prepared for the green burial experience and that cemeterians are covered for all eventualities. www.GreenBurialMA.org

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Session 2: Words, Music and Ceremony for Green Burial Services                $23
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Amy Cunningham is a New York state licensed funeral director, green burial advocate, and home funeral guide. She manages the lively blog The Inspired Funeral.com with funeral celebrant Kateyanne Unullisi, and Fitting Tributes Funeral Service. Amy is well known for her work pioneering family-based home funerals and green burials throughout the industry and with the public. She has been featured in various publications, including The New York Times, and she has spoken at many industry conferences and events, including the National Home Funeral Alliance, the Funeral Consumers Alliance, and the National Funeral Directors Association. As a writer and celebrant, Amy is particularly interested in expanding meaningful and personal ceremony options to the spiritual and the secular alike. www.theinspiredfuneral.com and www.fittingtributefunerals.com

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Session 3: What Funeral Directors Need to Know About Natural Burial      $23
Elizabeth Fournier began her career in 1990 in Portland, Oregon where she was employed as the live-in night keeper, sleeping in a trailer in a large, hilly cemetery. Thirty years later, she is a one-woman funeral service in the rural town of Boring, Oregon. Elizabeth owns and operates Cornerstone Funeral Services where she is affectionately known as “The Green Reaper” for her green burial advocacy. Elizabeth is the author of The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial. She recently gave a TEDx talk called "Going Green: The Last Act of Environmental Volunteerism." People Magazine wrote, “Elizabeth Fournier is doing her part to change the way Americans bury their dead." www.cornerstonefuneral.com

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Session 4: The Home Funeral/Green Burial Connection                                  $23
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Lucinda Herring is author of Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials (2019). With humor and loving detail she tells the stories that illustrate the seamless practice of natural care of the dead, all the way to the green burial cemetery. Her experience as a holistic funeral director gives her inside intel on what goes into creating possibilities for families who want to be more closely involved in their own planning and carrying out care for loved ones. www.lucindaherring.com

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Session 5: Natural Burial in Urban Areas                                                                  $23
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Laura Faessel has assisted Pete McQuillin stewarding Penn Forest Natural Burial Park for three years since earning her BA in Environmental Science from Slippery Rock University. From the beginning, the Penn Forest business model was based using natural burial as a means to restore forestland in an urban location and still make a profit. Laura describes Penn Forest's experience on how to create and maintain sustainable and natural urban burial options. www.pennforestcemetery.com

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Session 6: Working with Conservation Land Trusts                                             $23
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Heidi Hannapel is the co-owner of LANDMATTERS, a conservation consulting firm in North Carolina that specializes in building collaborative partnerships, and bringing together ideas, people, and their lived experiences. She has designed workshops and resources for building a stronger land trust community, focused on best practices and standards for land conservation. Heidi works with private partners and land trusts on conservation burial site assessment, community partnerships, project development, and planning. She is also a member of the Conservation Burial Alliance. As the long-time Southeast Program Manager of the Land Trust Alliance, she knows well what land trusts are looking for from potential conservation burial projects. www.thelandmatters.com

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​Start Up Nuts and Bolts                                                                                                 $23
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Jeff Hodes has forty-plus years of experience in the cemetery industry, with key positions in major cemetery organizations, and has provided consulting services to cemeteries across the US for over ten years. As an active leader in cemetery development, training, and volunteering with multiple industry associations, Jeff has served in leadership roles on the boards of directors for six different cemetery associations, and earned the Certified Cemetery Executive and the Certified Supplier Executive distinction from the International Cemetery Cremations Funeral Association, and a MS degree with an emphasis in environmental studies. This workshop centers on the basics of what it takes to start a natural burial cemetery. www.cemeterymanagementsolutions.com

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Converting Historical Cemeteries                                                                              $23
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Ed Bixby  is the owner and operator of Steelmantown Natural Cemetery in Steelmantown, New Jersey, as well as Purissima Historic Cemetery in Half Moon Bay, California, Westwood Hills Memorial Park in Placerville, California, and Historic Columbian Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. Ed’s extensive background in land use and development includes being a licensed New Jersey real estate broker and the owner of Fox and Fox Builders, LLC. Ed’s experience in the development industry has provided keen insight into better land-use practices and drives his passion for the natural burial movement and the benefits it provides to present and future generations. He shares his experiences and the challenges of converting historic cemeteries into green burial cemeteries. www.steelmantowncemeterycompany.com

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