Course Instructor

Lee Webster

Lee Webster‘s experience with home funeral and green burial advocacy informs her work as a nationally recognized leader in the end of life sphere. She served in chief leadership positions with the National Home Funeral Alliance and the Green Burial Council, and helped found the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance and the Conservation Burial Alliance while directing New Hampshire Funeral Resources, Education & Advocacy. She is a writer, researcher, educator, long-time hospice volunteer, home funeral guide, conservationist, funeral-related website content writer and designer, and frequent speaker on home funerals, green burial, and funeral reform on the local and national front. She is the author of several home funeral and green burial books, including Changing Landscapes: Exploring the growth of ethical, compassionate and environmentally sustainable green funeral service and The After-Death care Educators Handbook, and has published articles and interviews that can be found in media outlets including The New Republic, Boston Globe, The New York Times, NPR, and many others. She co-teaches the Green Burial Masterclass, and is a frequent lecturer in continuing education, colleges, and university classes, including Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome and Introduction l Lee Webster

    • Burial as a Conservation Strategy l Lee Webster

  • 2

    Helpful Documents

    • Amending Conservation Easements l The Land Trust Alliance

    • Conservation Burial Easement Language l Lee Webster

    • Conservation Burial Best Practices l Dr. Billy Campbell

    • Creating Conservation Burial Grounds Checklist l Heidi Hannapel and Jeff Masten

    • About Conservation Burial flyer l Conservation Burial Alliance

    • Land Trusts and Conservation l Conservation Burial Alliance

    • Carbon Benefits of Conservation Burial l Dr. Billy Campbell

    • Glossary

    • Resource List

  • 3

    Articles, Books, Videos

    • Deeply Rooted l Conservation Burial Alliance

    • Natural Burial l LTA Saving Land Summer 2023

    • Cemeteries, Restoration, Net Value l Dr. Billy Campbell

    • How Green Burials Work and How They Help the Environment

    • When Dirt and Death Collide: Legal and Property Interests in Burial Places l Tanya Marsh

    • Kates-Boylston Green Funeral Study 2021

    • Real Answers to Questions Real People Ask About Green Burial l Lee Webster

  • 4

    Instructor

    • Your Instructor, Lee Webster

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