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Uncommon ground: Landowner opens green cemetery in co-op’s path

  • October 31, 2004

Anton Caputo, San Antonio Express-News
HUNTSVILLE — In the piney woods just outside this East Texas prison town lies the grave of a homeless man. Except for a slight mound of pine needles and a small iron cross, the grave would go unnoticed by the chance passer-by. There’s not a hint as to whose remains were […]

Green Burials: Thinking Outside the Box

  • October 14, 2004

Green BurialNatural Burials Signal a Return to More Traditional Funeral Practices
By Marc Lallanilla, ABC News
Oct. 14, 2004 — When Bonnie Ramey buried her husband two years ago, she knew she didn’t want to have a typical funeral ceremony at a landscaped cemetery plot. “The commercialization of funerals is getting out of control,” she said. “They […]

From Dust to Dust Au Naturel

  • October 3, 2004

By Susan Swartz, Press Democrat
Tommy Randal Odom, a gypsy wanderer in life, has found, in death, a permanent niche in history as the first person to be buried green in California. The body of the Texas native was laid to rest in September in Mill Valley at the first burial preserve on […]

“Green’ Burials Gain in Calif., Spurred by Cost and Ecology

  • October 2, 2004

By Bobby Caina Calvan, The Boston GlobeMILL VALLEY, Calif. - The organic movement has long been a way of life for California’s north coast, and now a Marin County cemetery is taking things further: a “green” cemetery that touts biodegradable caskets, the wilderness, and a back-to-nature approach to taking care of the […]