by Brian Hayden | May 6, 2022 | Articles, Resources, Tools
Emily Miller learned about green burial as a twenty-eight year old mortuary student. Today she runs the first dedicated green cemetery in Colorado. This is the story of how Emily conceived of and started Colorado Burial Preserve in eighteen months and what she hopes...
by Brian Hayden | Apr 13, 2022 | Podcasts, Resources
Liza Hanks is an approachable estate planning attorney who hosts the “Women & Wills” podcast. Her most recent guest was Dr. Jessica Zitter, the producer and director of a documentary film called, “Caregiver: A Love Story”. You can listen to...
by Brian Hayden | Mar 3, 2022 | Podcasts, Resources
“There’s a psychological block going on here because the death word is hanging around our head. And that deranges us and shuts our rationality off and opens up our emotions. So we think we’re thinking, but we’re not, we’re just...
by Brian Hayden | Oct 29, 2021 | Articles, Resources, Tools
Too many books, too little time. So I want to help you get a sense for a foundational text that is worth investing your time in. Stephen Jenkinson’s “Die Wise” was first recommended to me by Emily McClatchey, a green funeral steward from Cambridge,...
by Brian Hayden | Sep 7, 2021 | Articles, Courses, Resources, Tools
Jennifer Downs serves on the board of the Green Burial Association of Maryland and is a contributor to the Green Burial Masterclass, a 12-week professional development training course for anyone interested in managing a natural burial cemetery. In this video, Jennifer...
by Brian Hayden | Jul 28, 2021 | Podcasts, Resources
RadioLab has long been one of my favorite podcasts. If we had an unlimited budget these are the kinds of shows we’d produce. That’s why it’s so exciting when the talented production team at RadioLab focuses their time and attention on the end-of-life...
