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Green Burial Advocacy in Your Community

Materials and Tools
The Green Burial Council webpage Educational Tools is the place to find links to:
  • Flyers and Handouts
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Helpful Tips for Giving Green Burial Presentations
  • Rack Card PDF
  • Bumper Sticker PDFs
  • Infographics
Being Prepared
We recommend reading as much as you can - the Education tab on your GBC webpage browser will yield lots of areas of exploration.
Community advocates need to be ready to answer questions from the public - here are the top questions we get - and their best answers!
​FAQs: Green Burial Defined
FAQs: Conservation Burial FAQs
​FAQs: Hybrid Burial FAQs
Information on other disposition options
Where to Speak?
  • Librairies
  • Faith Communities
  • Senior Centers and Facilities
  • Schools and Universities
  • Hospices and Hospitals
  • Community Centers
  • Professional Organizations
  • Civic Groups such as Rotary
  • Conservation Groups
  • Elder Law Firms
How to Get the Gig?
  • Distribute your posters, flyers, rack cards
  • Send letters of introduction to organizations
  • Print and hand out business cards
  • Visit the places listed and make personal contact
  • Contact people you know who can help
  • Introduce yourself in social media groups
  • Approach adult education organizations like OSHER
  • Contact your local community college
  • Reserve your local library, community center for a talk
  • Talk with your pastor, minister, rabbi, or other faith leader

Faith Communities and Green Burial

The Louisville Institute is sponsoring an initiative called "A Practical Theology of Corpse Care" that seeks to answer the question, “…How can clergy and congregations (re)engage in pastoral praxis in care for the dead? ” Learn more about the project and who is involved here.

Mor(t)al Remains: Pastoral Theology and Corpse Care by the Reverend Cody J. Sanders, The Journal of Pastoral Theology, July 9, 2019

Ministry on death and dying teaches people how to plan for the end of life by Phillip Martin, Faith and Leadership, January 7, 2020
 
To Lie Down in Green Pastures: How the Catholic Church is leading the way in green burial by Lee Webster discusses Pope Francis' encyclical on nature and the environment that brought Catholic doctrine and the fast-moving trend toward green burial in Catholic cemeteries into alignment.