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Camille Adair

Camille is joined by Joe Sehee, Founder & Executive Director of the “Green Burial Council,” a nonprofit organization intended 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.

www.greenburialcouncil.org

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