Joe Sehee with the Green Burial Council [30:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today Camille is joined by Joe Sehee, executive director of the “Green Burial Council” and Cynthia Jones. Joe founded The Green Burial Council, a nonprofit organization to encourage sustainability in the death care industry and to use the burial process as a means of facilitating ecological restoration and landscape level conservation.

The organization recently established the nation’s first certifiable standards for cemeteries, funeral providers, and cremations facilities. Joe also works as a consultant bringing together land trusts, park service agencies, open space districts, and disposition companies for the purpose of permanently protecting endangered landscapes throughout the US.

A Peabody Award-winning journalist, Joe previously worked as an affordable housing advocate for the Bay Area Council/Association of Bay Area Governments, and as a Jesuit lay minister at the University  of San Francisco where he directed the campus peace and social justice program.

For more information: www.greenburialcouncil.org

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