Mar 8, 2016 | Burial, Environment, Future cemetery, Sustainable
When people come together around something that affects them deeply, and with focus and determination, a lot can be learned. What’s also great is that we can admit ignorance, listen closely to what others have to offer, and make new and sustainable connections with...
Jun 23, 2015 | Community Engagement, Environment, Future cemetery
In my role on the Greater Metropolitan Cemetery Trust community advisory committee, I now hear the term ‘future cemetery’ used quite frequently. Until recently they relied on the tried and true patterns or ideas about what a cemetery is. Right now, there...
Mar 5, 2015 | Death conversation, Environment, Funeral options, Green funeral, Sustainable, Vigil
The Funeral event in the 2015 Sustainable Living Festival (SLF). Can I say it was like a party? You don’t know who’s going to make it. Low grade anxiety. It’s a hot night. You’ve done your best with watermelon and snacks and cold bubbly water....
Jul 11, 2014 | Environment, Memorial, Remembering
I recently spent time at Brunswick Heads, a little NSW town with beachside streets, and a wonderful breakwater. Bruns for short. Bruns is a place people are fond of. and you see that in memorials placed at ground and eye level. A few memorials At the gate of the...
Feb 17, 2014 | Burial, Death conversation, Environment, Green funeral, Sustainable
Thursday night’s Sustainable Living Festival event at Hub Melbourne showed lots of people want new funeral options. So we tried co-designing a low impact, sustainable funeral. First up, sustainability principles of inter-generational equity and environmental,...
Feb 10, 2014 | Death conversation, Environment, Sustainable
‘Co-design that Sustainable Funeral!’ Coming up on Thursday 13th February! This event builds on last year’s successful SLF event on Funeral Options. great opportunity to nut out what sustainable might mean in this context. You’ve spent your life...
