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Green Is the New Dead

  • July 27, 2006

Green-burial movement gets more ambitious
By Gregory Dicum, Grist
“I’d prefer to be put in the ground, under a tree,” says Joe Sehee, contemplating his inevitable demise. “But I don’t want to go in the ground with anything, I just want to be buried in a simple pine box or shroud, and that’s it.”
If Sehee has given […]

GreenSprings Natural Cemetery (video)

  • July 19, 2006

By Michael d’Estries, Groovy Green Video
Life is filled with choices. Many of them are daily, some are monumental, others take us in new directions. We use our decision-making skills to forecast positive end-results for our own lives and the people around us. Choices, however, are not limited to the mortal coil–we can also make choices […]

Let my Garden be my Final Resting Place

  • July 13, 2006

By Susan Ager, Detroit Free Press
For Aunt Helen, we needed no concrete burial vault. She asked to move, after her death, to a mausoleum. We did, however, choose a mid-priced casket and enlist the services of a funeral home, including embalming. With other incidentals (transportation, newspaper death notices, holy cards, a tip to the minister) […]

‘Green’ Burials Growing in Popularity

  • July 2, 2006

By William Kates, Associated Press
NEWFIELD, N.Y. — It sits on the eastern fringe of New York’s Finger Lakes region and is bounded on three sides by 8,000 acres of protected forests: the perfectly natural place to spend an eternity. The 93-acre Greensprings Natural Cemetery is the first of its kind in New York and one […]