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Greener Pastures: How New England is Reimagining Death

Candace Currie, Clerk for Green Burial Massachusetts, discusses the increasing interest in green burial and GBM’s ongoing search for land for a conservation burial ground in Massachusetts with Laurie Diane Wiegler.

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Chatham Cemetery Commission Considers Allowing Green Burials

Chatham Cemetery Commission Considers Allowing Green Burials By: Tim Wood/The Cape Cod Chronicle CHATHAM – The cemetery commission is considering allowing “green” burials in a section of the South Chatham Cemetery. The environmentally friendly internment option involves burying remains without

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Barnstable hopes to offer green burials soon

Barnstable hopes to offer green burials soon  Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA) Author/Byline: Susan Vaughn; Special to Cape Cod Times | Page: A1 | Section: News COTUIT — Mosswood Cemetery off Putnam Avenue has a new burial area that looks completely different than the

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Cemeteries That Save the American Landscape

Cemeteries That Save the American Landscape Covering two million acres of U.S. soil, cemeteries are lush with potential for the living and the land. By Devinne Melecki Some days, it feels like I spend more time with the dead than

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Natural burials were illegal in Vermont. Now they’re having a resurgence

Natural burials were illegal in Vermont. Now they’re having a resurgence By Lexi Krupp, Vermont Public At the entrance of Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier is a white marble building. Inside were six bodies, on a visit in early April.

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Going out green

Going out ‘green.’ Demand grows for Florida funerals that preserve nature, cut pollution BY NICOLAS RIVERO As bagpipes played, Janet McAliley’s family pulled her casket of woven seagrass on a wooden wagon down a dirt path through a wild green

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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines Living on Earth contributor Peter Dykstra joins Host Jenni Doering to share news of the uptick in green burials. Listen here.

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To help Earth’s future, people are getting buried like it’s 1860

To help Earth’s future, people are getting buried like it’s 1860 By Tara Bahrampour Mia Zinn was a member of her middle school ecology club, had planted a reflection garden and had implored public officials to preserve a local woods, and when she

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Morning Show with Mary Jacobsen – Green Burials

Morning Show with Mary Jacobsen – Green Burials This week, Mary Jacobsen speaks with Candace Currie and Lisa Groves about “green” burial, also called natural burial. Currie is Clerk for Green Burial Massachusetts, a statewide nonprofit whose mission is to

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Green burials: Leave no trace

Green burials: Leave no trace Inside the industry devoted to handling death in an ecologically sustainable way By Quartz Staff Humans have been burying their dead for at least 40,000 years. But in the last couple of centuries, especially in

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