Research Library
Dissertations
Salisbury, Michael “From My Death, May Life Come Forth; A Feasibility Study of the woodland cemetery in Canada”
University of Guelph, School of Landscape Architecture BLA 2002
Hodych, Anastasia “Disturbing Ground; A Socio-environmental Model for the Green Cemetery in Manitoba”
University of Manitoba, Department of Landscape Architecture MLA 2004
Berry, Matthew “Designing for Eternity; The Cemetery Landscape as a Therapeutic Environment”
University of Melbourne, Australia MLA 1992
Gordon, Mary-Jo. “Designing for Spirituality in the Landscape: An Exploration”
University of Guelph. School of Landscape Architecture MLA Thesis (1999)
Lafleur-Vetter, Hazel Annette. ” Re-Membering Who I am: The interactive process of untangling.” The Union Institute PhD Thesis 2000
Schroeder, David Lee, “Death Matters”.
North Carolina State University Masters Thesis 2002
Smith, Peter J. “The Future Role of the Urban Cemetery: Langstaff Cemetery Development, A Master Plan”
University of Guelph. School of Landscape Architecture MLA Thesis (1985)
Papers and Presentations
Salisbury, Michael John “Draft Standards for Natural Burial Grounds” 2006 Working Paper prepared for the Green Burial Council.
Harris, Amy Lavender “The Hermeneutically Sealed Coffin: Speculations on the Ecological Politics of Death”. 2001 Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Université Laval, May 27, 2001.
Harris, Amy Lavender “Natural Burial, Natural Dwelling and the Possibility of a Heideggerian Environmental Ethic”.
Explorations in Environmental Studies research colloquium; session titled “Phenomenology, Ethics, and Environment”, held at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, April 1, 2002.
http://individual.utoronto.ca/alharris/academic_resume.html
Taylor, Sarah McFarland “Organically Dead: Nature, Religion, and the Green Death Movement in American Culture.” [Presentation at the Regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion, River Forest, Illinois, April 1, 2006]
Taylor, Sarah McFarland “Eternally Green: Environmental Memorial and the Ecology of Death in America.” [Presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, University of Florida, April 8, 2006]
Taylor, Sarah McFarland “A Generation of Seekers Plan Greener Deaths: Boomer Culture and the Search for Meaning and Values in Ecologically Conscious Burial Choices.” [University of Chicago, Religion and Environment Initiative invited lecture, May 5th, 2006.]
Taylor, Sarah McFarland “Composting a Life: Green Burial Practices, Recycled Bodies and American Sensibilities of Nature.” [“Religion and the Body” Colloquium Series, Northwestern University, May 31, 2006]
http://ecocon.uoregon.edu/Fellows/taylor.html
http://www.religion.northwestern.edu/faculty/taylor.html
sarah@northwestern.edu
Books and Journals
Albery, Nicholas and Wienrich, Stephanie. “The New Natural Death Handbook”
Rider Books London (2000) ISBN 0-7126-0576-2
Albery, Wienrich, Bickmore & Mukherjee. “Ways to Go - Naturally”.
The Natural Death Center (2000) ISBN 0-9523280-7-0
Constant, Caroline. “The Woodland Cemetery: Towards a Spiritual Landscape”
Byggforlaget, Stockholm (1994) ISBN 91-7988-060-6
Hallam, Elizabeth and Hockey, Jenny. “Death, Memory and Material Culture”
Oxford Press (2001)
Jackson, Charles O. “Passing: The vision of death in America”
Greenwood Press (1977)
“Death and Religion in a Changing World”
Edited by: Kathleen Garces-Foley
Journals
Clayden, Andrew and Woudstra, Jan. “Some European approaches to twentieth-century cemetery design: continental solutions for British dilemmas.”
Mortality Volume 8, Number 2 / May 2003. Pages: 189 - 208
Rugg, Julie. “A Few Remarks on Modern Sepulture’: Current Trends and New Directions in Cemetery Research”
Mortality . Volume 3, Number 2 / 1998. Pages: 111 - 128
Bower, Amanda. “Death Can Be Dirty. What’s A Greenie To Do?”
TIME magazine . Oct. 7, 2002
Pitman, Ted. “A Woodland Burial”.
Vegan Views 95 (Winter 2002/3)
White Orcas, Tim. “Green Reaper fills little-known public office”.
Green Pages (newspaper of the Green Party of the United States) Volume 8 Issue 2
Kaufman, Martin . “Dust to Dust? A Greedy Death Industry Prevents Our Return to Nature” The Environmental Magazine , Nov/Dec 1998. Reprinted Online March 1999 Conscious Choice
Brigham, Don Jr. “Living Memorials”
Landscape Architecture Vol. 92 No. 2 Feb 2002 p. 22-24
Crone, J. “The Woodland Cemetery”
Landscape Journal Vol. 14 No. 2 fall 1995 p.237-238
HanCock, Marion. “Landscaping for a Garden of Remembrance”
The Architects’ Journal Vol. 196, No. 17 1992 p.24-25
Marcus, Clair Cooper. “Act of Healing: at the National AIDS Memorial Grove”
Landscape Architecture . Vol. 90 No. 11 Nov 2000 p.74-95
Thompson, William S. “A Natural Death”
Landscape Architecture Vol. 92 No. 10 October 2002 p. 73-76
Treib, Marc. “Woodland Cemetery - A Dialogue of Design and Meaning”
Landscape Architecture Vol. 76 No. 2 March 1986 p.44-49
Television Film and Radio
CBC Newsworld “Outside the Box; A regional special that looks at the Canadian funeral industry and culture.”
Jokinen, Tom - Producer DNTO/The Content Factory. CBC Radio One, Winnipeg
Original air date- Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 10:00 p.m.
The Nightside with Mark Elliot.(2005) NewsTalk CFRB 1010
Listen to a radio interview with Mike Salisbury about Green Burial and the Forest of Memories website.
Groovy Green Video - Greensprings Natural Cemetery ; An independent short film documenting the dedication of Greensprings Natural Cemetery. Includes interviews with Mary Woodsen, and Dr. Billy Campbell.
A magnificent short film that answers, “What is green burial?
Written by Michael d’Estries
Groovy Green - Wednesday, 19 July 2006
HBO “Six Feet Under” - Episode 61 - “All Alone”
One of TV’s most acclaimed drama series, the Emmy®- and Golden Globe®-winning Six Feet Under concludes its groundbreaking, five-season run on HBO with the burial of Nate Fisher, the patriarch of the family. Nate is buried in a green funeral with no embalming or casket, just burial in a plot of land that’s protected by a nature preserve.
Directed by: Adam Davidson
Written by: Kate Robin
http://www.hbo.com/sixfeetunder/episode/season5/episode61.shtml
PBS “A Family Undertaking”
Explores the growing home-funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home.
Westrate, Elizabeth - Produced And Directed
Original air date- August 3, 2004 at 10:00 p.m
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/afamilyundertaking/
“The Last Rite”
The Last Rite illustrates how Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists ritualize death. In this documentary we spend time in mosques, Buddhist temples, and ashrams to gain knowledge into the meaning of death and life.
Online Resources
The Green Burial Council
http://www.ethicalburial.org/
The Natural Death Centre - Association of Nature Reserve Burial Grounds
http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk
Varner, Gary R. “Sacred Groves” Last edited: Thursday, June 09, 2005
Online Posting. Authors Den
Rugg, Julie Dr. Cemetery Research Group, University of York
The principal aim of the CRG is to expand an understanding of current and past burial culture in the modern period in the UK, by studying the ways in which social, emotional and religious concerns have interacted with economic and political imperatives to frame burial practice.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/crg/index.htm
Green Burial - with Trudy Weathersby
http://dying.about.com/library/weekly/aa110800a.htm
Woodland Burials - Green Woodland Burial Services
http://www.greenburials.co.uk/
City of the Silent
http://here.at/cityofthesilent
The Neo-Pagen Natural Burial Web
http://immarama.faithweb.com/