Joe Sehee is the founder/executive director of the Green Burial Council; a nonprofit organization that encourages environmentally sustainable deathcare, and a principal of Conservation Burial Partners, LLC; a consultancy group that partners land trusts, park service agencies, and conservation developers with cemetery operators, funeral providers, and cremation companies.

Regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on the topic of using burial as a conservation strategy, Joe has been invited to speak on this topic by such organizations as the Land Trust Alliance, the Funeral Consumers Alliance, the National Funeral Directors Association, and the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association.

A former Jesuit lay minister and Peabody Award-winning journalist, Joe is a senior fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program, and an “environpreneur” fellow with the Property Environment and Research Center.