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Green graves give back to nature

Memorial Ecosystems – South Carolina

North American Woodland Burial Society

Brothers Seek `Green' Burials at Family Farm

Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve - Florida

Natural Death Centre - England

C.O. and Laura Wilkerson made it clear they wanted simple burials when they died

Ridgeview Farm - Ohio

David Schroeder is from Augusta, Ga. His master's thesis at North Carolina State University is on ecologically sustainable cemeteries. Schroeder said embalming is a hazard because toxic fluids can leak from graves and pollute ground water. 

The Green Reaper

Green Burial Park on Vancouver Island, BC

Mary Woodsen is working in the Finger Lakes region in New York to start a memorial nature preserve. 

Greening Your Final Arrangements

 

Tiffany Smith of San Francisco -  will finish an MBA in Environmental Entrepreneurship in May 2003 with a focus on ways to eliminate toxins, preserve open space, and bring people closer to the natural world by transforming burial and cremation trends - reduction of all hazardous methods of dealing with death, not just in the realm of ecosystems health but in the realm of air quality as well psychological health.

Green Graveyards—A Natural Way to Go