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Date: June 4th @ 6-7 pm AND June 5th 12-1 pm (PST) Offering: An Expert’s Guide to Green Burial and More Location: Virtual (Zoom) Registration (required) www.northcoasteolcollective.com/events-one/an-experts-guide-to-green-burials-and-more Presenter: Elizabeth Fournier, Author of The Green Burial Guidebook, Funeral Director, National Speaker
Description: Every year, conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and metals, as well as millions of gallons of carcinogenic embalming fluid. There is a more environmentally conscious and affordable way, and Elizabeth Fournier, affectionately dubbed the “Green Reaper,” walks you through it. She provides comprehensive and compassionate guidance, covering everything from green burial planning and home funeral basics to legal guidelines and outside-the-box options, such as burials at sea. Fournier points the way to green burial practices that consider both the environmental well-being of the planet and the economic well-being of loved ones.
Bio: Elizabeth Fournier began her career in 1990 in Portland, where she was employed as the live-in nightkeeper, sleeping in a trailer in a Portland, Oregon, cemetery. Thirty-three years later, she is a one-woman funeral service in the rural town of Boring, Oregon. Elizabeth owns and operates Cornerstone Funeral Services where she is affectionately known as “The Green Reaper” for her green burial advocacy. She is also the Manager of Historic Columbian Cemetery, Portland’s newest green burial choice, and author of The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Green Burial Alliance, gave a TEDx talk called “Going Green: The Last Act of Environmental Volunteerism,” and People Magazine honored her work by writing, “Elizabeth Fournier is doing her part to change the way Americans bury their dead.”
Note: Ms. Fournier offered this presentation in Nehalem in April to a standing-room-only audience. Consistent with the Collective’s mission, the same offering will be available virtually for those unable to attend in person. To learn more about Elizabeth Fournier, visit her websites: The Green Reaper and Cornerstone Funeral.
Description: Every year, conventional funerals bury millions of tons of wood, concrete, and metals, as well as millions of gallons of carcinogenic embalming fluid. There is a more environmentally conscious and affordable way, and Elizabeth Fournier, affectionately dubbed the “Green Reaper,” walks you through it. She provides comprehensive and compassionate guidance, covering everything from green burial planning and home funeral basics to legal guidelines and outside-the-box options, such as burials at sea. Fournier points the way to green burial practices that consider both the environmental well-being of the planet and the economic well-being of loved ones.
Bio: Elizabeth Fournier began her career in 1990 in Portland, where she was employed as the live-in nightkeeper, sleeping in a trailer in a Portland, Oregon, cemetery. Thirty-three years later, she is a one-woman funeral service in the rural town of Boring, Oregon. Elizabeth owns and operates Cornerstone Funeral Services where she is affectionately known as “The Green Reaper” for her green burial advocacy. She is also the Manager of Historic Columbian Cemetery, Portland’s newest green burial choice, and author of The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Green Burial Alliance, gave a TEDx talk called “Going Green: The Last Act of Environmental Volunteerism,” and People Magazine honored her work by writing, “Elizabeth Fournier is doing her part to change the way Americans bury their dead.”
Note: Ms. Fournier offered this presentation in Nehalem in April to a standing-room-only audience. Consistent with the Collective’s mission, the same offering will be available virtually for those unable to attend in person. To learn more about Elizabeth Fournier, visit her websites: The Green Reaper and Cornerstone Funeral.
