Grounded Conversation: What Remains
Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion and discovery session about our place in nature—the questions you didn’t know who to ask about green burials, human composting, eco-cremations, and how to sustainably prepare for death, presented on the beautiful LongHouse grounds, maintained without chemicals.
Come hear Joseph Charap and Gabrielle R. Gatto of New York City’s Green-Wood Cemetery; Darren Crouch, president of the Green Burial Council, on eco burial options; Amy Cunningham, death educator and funeral director; Faith Popcorn, futurist, on planning ahead; and Edwina von Gal of Perfect Earth Project, and meet the people who provide the newest, oldest, and always graceful ways to return your body to the Earth in the embrace of the peaceful and toxic-free LongHouse landscape.
Discovery Session
Meet death doulas and representatives from Green-Wood Cemetery, Aeon Woods Conservation Cemetery, Departure Lounge, and Passages International, check out urns, watch a shrouding demonstration and body blessing, and more!
“Guard well our human chain, Watch well you keep it strong, As long as sun will shine, And this our home, Keep pure and sweet and green, For now I’m yours, And you are also mine.”
—Pete Seeger, from To My Old Brown Earth
PERFECT EARTH PROJECT
Informed by science and a passion for the healing power of nature, Perfect Earth Project is helping people transform yards, parks, and campuses into ecologically healed and healthy places—and to change lives in the process. We present events to engage and inspire our audience to stop the serious ecological and human health harm caused by traditional landscaping and provide simple and beautiful solutions.
GROUNDED CONVERSATIONS is a series of events originated and organized by Perfect Earth Project to raise consciousness about the human/nature relationship and how it affects our health—and our future. What Remains follows two successful past events. This past April, On Being’s Krista Tippett and author Michael Pollan explored the idea of consciousness at the W – Union Square in New York City. And last summer Krista Tippett and Biddle Duke discussed how to find hope in a world of environmental uncertainty at LongHouse.
