Green Burial Council

The Green Burial Council is a nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally sustainable deathcare and the use of burial as a means to protecting natural areas. Green burial is a way of caring for the dead with minimal environmental impact that furthers legitimate ecological aims such as the conservation of natural resources, reduction of carbon emissions, protection of worker health, and the restoration and/or preservation of habitat. This tumblr is maintained by the GBC's Communications Manager. Please email any inquiries to [email protected] http://greenburialcouncil.com

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Eco-friendly burials gaining favor with Boomers

Some people take their principles to their grave. And for some baby boomers, that means planning for their funerals, or their parents’ funerals, in an eco-friendly way.

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Happy Sunday GBC friends & #greenburial supporters!

Photo from Green Burial Council certified Ramsey Creek Preserve in South Carolina

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Green Burial Council certified Hybrid cemetery Mt. Auburn Cemetery located in Cambridge, Massachusetts 

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Good advice! 

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A beautiful photo from Green Burial Council certified Memorial Ecosystems, Inc on this beautiful first day of Summer!

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A good news article to get you through the mid-week lull-"#Ecofriendly burials gain favor among baby boomers" (from the Washington Post): http://wapo.st/1haX2nY "He’d like a natural burial, 'If anybody loves me enough to go through that effort. 'It’s a really powerful feeling and that’s the biggest plus,' he said."

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Green Burial Council certified Our Lady of the Rosary Cemetery

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"The choice after all, is ours to make. If, having endured much, we have at last asserted our ‘right to know,’ and if, knowing, we have concluded that we have been asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.” —Rachel Carson, 1962

Wisdom, then and now. 

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Join us in thanking our troops and veterans for their selfless service. 

Warm regards from your friends at the Green Burial Council!

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We couldn't agree more. 

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We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Stephen Jay Gould (via thedragoninmygarage)

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This comic brings to mind this wonderful Native American Proverb

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Another reminder that #greenburial cemeteries are more than just cemeteries! Penn Forest Natural Burial Park is hosting their annual picnic on June 14th. Check out their page for more information!

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The Green Burial Council is excited to welcome Mount Auburn Cemetery of Cambridge, MA as our newest certified provider of green burials. Mount Auburn Cemetery will be hosting a screening of A Will for the Woods, as well as having Mark Harris author of Grave Matters speak on June 14th. Please visit their website for more information www.mountauburn.org. Friends of Mount Auburn

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N.J. funeral home: Eco-friendly 'green burials' gaining in popularity

A green burial consists of no embalment, biodegradable caskets, urns and shrouds and a hand dug burial site. The reasons behind a green burial are simple: returning the deceased to the earth in a way that is both Eco-friendly and spiritually cathartic for their families. Fertig Funeral Home, located at 63 N Main St. in Mullica Hill, provides such a service.