You write that green burial works for 20 years, but this is the first time I hear about it . If so, where are these graves ?
The Green Burial movement started about 20 years ago in Northern California alongside the Home Funeral movement, led by retired educator Nancy Jewel Poer. The Green Burial Council began certification of
cemeteries according to the degree of "greenness". Most people haven't heard about the movement because it started actually from within conventional cemeteries which separated out a small land area for
which would not be sprayed with pesticides or use concrete around the coffins to keep the ground from caving in. Most of these cemeteries were not advertising these plots unless asked for. At the same time
crematoriums were growing in popularity, which is an unfortunate misnomer about cremation being considered "ecological" in that it could save on land use. With recent studies being done in the last 10 years
about the polluting gases and emissions from cremation a new interest in traditional green burials has developed. Now that there are a handful of purely green, "conservation" cemeteries scattered around the
country in the past 5 years there is now a sudden explosion in media coverage on green burials. In 2017, 64% of Americans said they would prefer a green burial over conventional or cremation. We have not
met one person yet who did not completely agree with the concept of green burials--the practicality, rightness, and green aspects as well as the caring and compassion that come with giving ones body back to
the earth!
