By Camille Adair, A Lifelong Practice (Blog)
“One’s death should mean something.”
- Edward Abbey
Joe Sehee is executive director of the Green Burial Council, a nonprofit organization he founded 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.