On July 19, 2026, Perfect Earth Project presented What Remains: All the Ways to Gift Your Body to the Earth Naturally, a conversation and discovery fair at LongHouse in East Hampton, NY, about sustainable end-of-life options, including green burial, human composting, eco cremations, and other emerging practices. Speakers were Green-Wood Cemetery‘s Joseph Charap and Gabrielle R. Gatto, Green Burial Council‘s Darren Crouch, funeral director and death educator Amy Cunningham, and futurist Faith Popcorn. Discovery fair participants included Aeon Woods Conservation Cemetery, Green-Wood Cemetery, Passages International, death doulas Brianna L. Hernández and Jordana Jyoti, and hospice nurse Sarah Halweil. As Edwina von Gal said in her introduction, “We too are biomass, we too are a functioning part of the web of life.”
Handouts
Faith Popcorn’s handout about end of life planning.
Amy Cunningham’s handout about green cemeteries in the New York area.
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. Previous Grounded Conversations included Killer Lawns on May 3, 2026, at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, with Dr. Ray Dorsey, Dr. Sarah Evans, Dr. Carl Safina, and Edwina von Gal about how common lawn chemicals harm us, our children, and our pets. On April 13, 2026, OnBeing’s Krista Tippett spoke with author Michael Pollan to a sold-out crowd in the Living Room at the W New York – Union Square. And on July 18, 2025, Krista Tippett and Biddle Duke discussed how to find hope in a world of environmental uncertainty at LongHouse. Perfect Earth will host future Grounded Conversations this summer.
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