New Blog about Green and Home Funerals

A Greener Way to the Great Beyond - The 1st Green Burial Conference was a great success with participants from a number of different states as well as enthusiasts from Colorado.  The Prairie Wilderness Cemetery, a Colorado initiative to start a green burial site near Greeley, CO, presented on challenges in starting a green burial site with neighborhood opposition raising its head following the purchase of the land.  Prairie Wilderness is now setting its sights on converting an existing cemetery into a green burial site.  

Mark Harris, environmental journalist and author of Grave Matters, presented his enlightening slide show on green and natural funerals, based on his countrywide tour.  

Joe Sehee of the Green Burial Council shared his insights working with conservation burial site initiatives across the US.  

A number of conference participants said they were eager to network and provide support for each other as they move forward with their various projects.  

Natural Transitions is planning another conference for the fall of 2009 - which would include the topic of home funerals (which, by nature, are invariably green) - and would like input on potential speakers and subjects.  

NT will be inviting some of the local participants of the conference who expressed an interest in helping to create Colorado-based natural burial options to an informal gathering to explore the way ahead.  

On a sad note - here is the site for a newspaper article about Jim Wood's Georgia green burial initiative that has hit a huge roadblock - http://www.macon.com/149/story/514700.html

Jim could do with our support at this time - in whatever way we can give it.  This is evidence of how much education it will take to change fear-based thinking and cultivate a conscious approach to death.

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