MISSION: To establish a low cost, low impact cemetery with natural landscaping and restore a prairie wilderness ecosystem. Learn more...
ALONG THE WAY: We advocate for green burials in all cemeteries. We strive to educate consumers about their rights and options in all funeral and burial decisions. We continue to seek partners in our efforts to acquire land and work with existing cemeteries.
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What is green burial? See our definition.
2ND ANNUAL HOME FUNERAL AND GREEN BURIAL CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 3, 2009
Karen and the volunteers of Natural Transitions did it again; please visit their site at http://www.naturaltransitions.org/ for complete details about the recent conference. See you at the next one!
except from Grave Matters:
For all its verdant landscaping, the typical cemetery functions less like a bucolic resting ground for the dead than a landfill for the materials that infuse and encase them. Over time, the typical ten-acre swatch of cemetery ground, for example, contains enough coffin wood to construct more than 40 houses, nearly 1,000 tons of casket steel and another twenty thousand tons of vault concrete. Add to that a volume of toxic formalin nearly sufficient to fill a small backyard swimming pool and untold gallons of pesticide and weed killer used to keep the cemetery grounds preternaturally green.
