Natural Burial Media Archives / Greensprings
Green cemetery plan keeps burial as ashes to ashes
The first environmentally-friendly cemetery in New York state may be coming to Newfield.
By Michele Reaves, Ithaca Journal
The Green Springs Natural Cemetery Association — a four-member group made up of Ithaca and Corning residents — wants to create a cemetery on Irish Hill Road where people are buried without embalming fluids, concrete vaults or elaborate coffins. […]
Rest in Green Peace Cemetery plots environmentally sound future
By Darise Jean-Baptiste, The Ithaca Journal
NEWFIELD - For almost a month, BOCES welding students Shayne Jackson and Travis Darling have dedicated afew hours of their school days to create the “pallbearer’s friend” - an aluminum cart with wheels and handles that will allow six people to easily transport caskets to gravesites.
Going Out Green Boosted by HBO
Peter Lauria, New York Post
The nascent field of “green funerals” scored a publicity coup with last week’s episode of HBO’s “Six Feet Under.”
On the show, the main character Nate Fisher, is buried in the green style, which theorizes that upon death our bodies should be returned to earth in a way that […]
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