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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi John and GREN Exec,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you for agreeing to donate $75 to the Good Green Death Forum. I had to put the new credit union account (it’s the Your Neighbourhood Credit Union at Fischer-Hallman and Ottawa) in my name because I don’t have anything (yet!) to prove that we are an organization – she read me a list, but none of them applied (i.e. registered charity, meeting minutes, terms of reference etc), so please make out the cheque to me, Susan Koswan, until I can get some minutes or whatever to change the bank account. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am making steps to formalize this into The Good Green Death Project and have now registered the domain name goodgreendeathproject.ca and I’m hoping to make it a local umbrella resource for both the pre- and post-death experience and include info about death doulas, legal rights of families and working towards composting as an option. My idea is to create a good green death co-operative. I’ll set up a meeting with the co-op people in Guelph in Sept. to figure out how to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks again for being part of this ride!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Susan K<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> John Jackson [mailto:jjackson@web.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> 13 July 2017 21:00<br><b>To:</b> Kevin Thomason<br><b>Cc:</b> Susan Koswan; GREN Executive<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [GREN-Exec] Update: Good Green Death Forum date confirmed Sat. Oct. 28, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Theo<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>how much money do we have in our account?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>John<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>John Jackson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>17 Major Street<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Kitchener N2H 4R1<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>519-744-7503<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jul 9, 2017, at 10:49 PM, Kevin Thomason <<a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com">kevinthomason@mac.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Susan,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Glad to see a plan coming together and things moving forward. I saw the recent TED Talk and it was very compelling. I am in favour of GREN helping to sponsor part of the costs along with other organizations. I’m actually surprised their rental rate is so high or that there would be one for this sort of business building event for them.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Keep moving forward from my perspective.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kevin.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br>-------------------------------------<br><br>Kevin Thomason<br><br>1115 Cedar Grove Road<br>Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2J 3Z4<br><br>Phone: (519) 888-0519<br>Mobile Phone: (519) 240-1648<br>Twitter: @kthomason<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com">kevinthomason@mac.com</a><br><br>-----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jul 9, 2017, at 9:07 PM, Susan <<a href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com">susankoswan@execulink.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi GREN Exec,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Just wanted to give you an update on my compost the dead project.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have made arrangements with the Williamsburg Cemetery to have a Good Green Death Forum and Death Cafe on Saturday Oct. 28, 2017 from 1 – 4. They have agreed to discount the rental fee by $100 because they will be talking about the city’s green burial options at Williamsburg, which takes the rental down to $359 for the three hours. The Grand River Unitarians will be donating, but not sure how much at this point. Would GREN be interested in sponsoring/donating a portion? I’m also still waiting on an answer from the Green Burial Society re donations.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This will be free to the public, will hold about 50 people who will have to register.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>My goals are to build public support for green burials and warm up/introduce people to the idea of composting and becoming a tree, and to provide a safe, supportive environment for people to talk about mortality (Death Cafe). Below is the draft agenda.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Draft Agenda</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Intro (5 minutes)</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What is a Good Green Death (1 ¼ hr)</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Video</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcMj4Az1MwE"><span style='color:windowtext'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcMj4Az1MwE</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>A Burial Practice That Nourishes the Planet (12 minute TED talk) Caitlin Doughty<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Panel</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Green Burial Options in Kitchener and Waterloo (Trisha Bradshaw & Bryce Crouse or designates)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Green Burial Society of Canada (Ellen Newman and/or Mark Richardson) and ?<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Video</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsopS7yTG8"><span style='color:windowtext'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsopS7yTG8</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Let’s Talk about Human Composting (14 minute TED talk) Katrina Spade Urban Death Project<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Panel</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: Susan Koswan – update on progress in Ontario and with Urban Death Project</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John Kloeze from Actium Composting and ?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Break/Light refreshments (10 minutes)</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Death Cafe (1 ½ hrs)<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Led/facilitated by Jessica Purple Rodela and Catherine Lauber of Marigold Whole Life Centre (Cambridge) and Michele Cadotte<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Susan<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'>K</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>Executive mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:Executive@gren.ca"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Executive@gren.ca</span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><br></span><a href="http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/executive_gren.ca"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/executive_gren.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Executive mailing 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