“I imagine they’ll stand in a circle and pause and laugh as well as cry.”<\/p>\n
That’s how Elinor Randall imagines her own funeral.\u00a0 Most of us have tried to imagine that moment at some point.<\/p>\n
One thing Randall won’t have to imagine: where she’ll be buried.\u00a0 She’s picked a spot on the property where she’s lived for years in Vermont.<\/p>\n
Randall is the first subject in a series on “green” burial.\u00a0 Tomorrow we’ll meet a man who builds biodegradable coffins.<\/p>\n
You can watch audio slide shows, with terrific photography, of both of them here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Both are produced by Angela Evancie, a Middlebury College graduate who’s engaged in a year-long fellowship to expand the notion of environmentalism.\u00a0 You’ll be hearing\/seeing from her often on NCPR and ncpr.org.\u00a0 I’ll let her introduce herself:<\/p>\n Hello, North Country!<\/p>\n I am excited to introduce a new project, \u201cChamplain Sounding,\u201d which I will be carrying out with support from NCPR in the coming year.\u00a0 \u201cChamplain Sounding\u201d seeks to reimagine Champlain Valley environmentalism by bringing new voices into the conversation.<\/p>\n How, you might ask?\u00a0 Well, I have a recorder.\u00a0 And I have a camera.\u00a0 And, of course, lots of questions.\u00a0 And for the next twelve months, I\u2019ll be ferrying myself back and forth across our dear Lake Champlain (full disclosure: I live in Vermont), creating multimedia portraits of individuals, families and communities that might not fit the mold of \u201cenvironmentalists\u201d by today\u2019s standards, but still have inspiring perspectives on what it means to live on and care for the land.<\/p>\n At the end of twelve months, I hope to have created a body of work that gives residents from shore to shore new ideas about what environmentalism in the Champlain Valley can look like.<\/p>\n I hope you\u2019ll follow the project here and at champlainsounding.org.\u00a0 Feel free to send your questions and comments to angela@champlainsounding.org.<\/p>\n Angela Evancie is a 2010 Compton Mentor Fellow and a recent graudate of Middlebury College.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I imagine they’ll stand in a circle and pause and laugh as well as cry.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}