Becoming One With Nature: Finding A Better Final Resting Place With Sandy Gibson Of Better Place Forests
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Thinking about death is not an everyday task one just ticks off his list. But as adults, we can’t help but think and plan about the insurance of security at the end of our days. You might have heard about being buried in a tree egg, or perhaps even composted or buried at sea. But how realistic are these final resting place options at this point in time? Are there more sustainable and regenerative solutions for this? Corinna Bellizzi welcomes Sandy Gibson as they take on a different road and explore one of life’s inevitable moments. Listen in as they discuss how you can find a better, greener final resting place with Better Place Forests.
About Guest:
Sandy Gibson is the Founder of Better Place Forests, America's first conservation memorial forest. Instead of graves, Better Place Forests offers a sustainable alternative to cemeteries for families who choose cremation.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandygibsonca
https://www.betterplaceforests.com/
https://www.instagram.com/betterplaceforests/
https://www.facebook.com/betterplaceforests/
https://twitter.com/bpf_community
Show Notes:
00:02:34 - Why It’s Difficult To Innovate
00:05:05 - Sustainable Alternative To Traditional Cemeteries
00:07:08 - Why Do Cemeteries Exist?
00:08:10 - An Entire Ecosystem
00:09:39 - Proximity And Community
00:12:38 - Taboo Around Cemeteries
00:15:42 - The End Of Your Story
00:17:10 - Understanding Embalming
00:22:21 - Better Ways Of Doing Cremation
00:27:33 - Everything Around Death
00:28:13 - Better Place Forests
00:30:05 - View Of Cemeteries
00:30:52 - Looking At Externalities
00:33:49 - Positive Side Effect
00:36:20 - Change Is Always With Us
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| 0:00.0 | What if you can take this permanent concept of a cemetery and use it for conservation? |
| 0:05.3 | And so we created a conservation memorial forest. |
| 0:07.9 | And the other way to think about that is what if you could pay for conservation by attracting |
| 0:12.1 | people who are already preparing for something similar? |
| 0:14.9 | So you blend these two ideas. |
| 0:16.9 | You take conservation and you take a final resting place and you create a conservation memorial forest. |
| 0:22.0 | And then you have a business with an externality that is permanently protected land. |
| 0:26.1 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:35.2 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people and planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:40.7 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 0:45.6 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 0:50.7 | Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist who's passionate |
| 0:55.7 | about social impact and building a better, more sustainable future. Every week, I invite you to care |
| 1:01.7 | a little bit more so that together we can all be better and create a better world. Today we're going |
| 1:07.8 | on a different sort of trip as we explore one of the inevitable moments of life, which is simply its end. |
| 1:14.4 | You might have heard about being buried in a tree egg or perhaps even composted or buried at sea. |
| 1:20.8 | But how realistic are these options at this point in time? |
| 1:24.6 | What sustainable or regenerative solutions really exist? |
| 1:28.7 | What does your end of life planning look like? What did it look like for your parents or for your |
| 1:34.3 | grandparents? Were they buried in a cemetery, a mausoleum? Were they embalmed with chemicals or |
| 1:41.3 | laid to rest in a shroud? Were they cremated? |
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