AJ+: The death industry in the U.S. buries millions of tons of materials in the ground every year, including millions of gallons of toxic embalming ch
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By Mallory McDuff in The Washington Post, December 17, 2021
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Virtual hearing November 15, 2021
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By THOMAS PEIPERT, AP News
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Strategies for Serving Today’s Greener Customer by Patti Martin Bartsche
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By CHRIS LARABEE - Greenfield Recorder
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From cardboard caskets to the absence of harmful chemicals, some people choose to minimize the impact to the environment after they die.
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Daily Hampshire Gazette
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WELLFLEET — More and more businesses are looking at ways of going green. On the Cape, that could also eventually include cemeteries.
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Part of a series The Death Gap: End-Of-Life Inequality
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Select Board supports concept of less expensive, environmentally friendly burials and will consider offering town-owned property for them.
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Connecting Point - NEPM
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Conventional burial is the more common method of burial in the U.S. But 90 percent of people elsewhere in the world are buried directly in the earth,
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Embalming, cremation and casket-making are far from eco-friendly. Some researchers want to return human bodies to the earth naturally.
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As health care workers battle a pandemic with a limited supply of personal protective equipment, the problem persists for those who bury the pandemic’s dead.
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As a general rule, we post articles directly related to green burial, however, due to inquiries we have been receiving about the care of a body after death, we have decided to add this information from the Funeral Consumers Alliance to our website.
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Feed me to the worms and microbes
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What I learned about the realities of this new, but old, practice
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Natural burials may soon be available in the Provincetown Cemetery.
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More people preferring ‘green’ over standard burials.
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Every year, Americans put 4.3 million gallons of embalming fluid in the ground. There is another way.
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On the recommendation of the board of health, West Tisbury selectmen voted unanimously to amend town cemetery regulations to allow for green burials.
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When it comes to after-death care and burials, green is the new black
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from Greenfield Recorder By MELINA BOURDEAU Published: 8/17/2019 5:00:13 AM
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Green burials go beyond not polluting or wasting. It’s about people needing and caring for land, conducting life-affirming activities there—including death.
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GBM quoted in this article about decreasing cemetery space
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From Atlas Obscura Director of Video Chris Naka
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Wright Cemetery in Westford Under Consideration
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By Joy Richard, Wicked Local Lexington
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Seven Days, July 19, 2017
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The New York, Times July 7, 2017
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Boston Globe, December 09, 2016
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The Progressive, August 3, 2016
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Boston Globe, May 16, 2016
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Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 11, 2015
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