Ann Hoffner

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Article about green burial in Australia, its difficulties and promise. I find it interesting that a country the size of the continental US with a population of 25 million, most of it on the coasts, is running out of cemetery room! theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

KIRO 7 News Radio’s traffic reporter Chris Sullivan was pall bearer at a green burial at Woodlawn Cemetery in Snohomish WA, a Green Burial Council certified hybrid cemetery. "Okay. I joked with my wife,... mynorthwest.com/1178252/green-…

News video of Woodland Memorial Park Funeral Home & Cemetery, a Green Burial Council certified hybrid cemetery in Sand Springs, OK. According to Vonda Ewell whose husband recently received a... ktul.com/news/local/a-f…

Laura B. Hayden - author for SevenPonds blog interviewed Jonas Zahn for a series "What do you need to know about green caskets?" Zahn, owner of Northwoods Casket Company, has always included in his... blog.sevenponds.com/professional-a…

New Zealand has 19 green burial cemeteries, many more for population size than here in the US. The movement has grown faster than any previous form of “post-death disposition”, according to Natural Burials, a non-profit... times-age.co.nz/becoming-one-w…

Ellen Stroud, an environmental historian at Penn State University, has a fascination with corpses. "I like thinking about how our... knowablemagazine.org/article/societ…

Washing the dead by the Pittsburgh chevra kadisha to honor the victims of the synagogue shootings will be difficult and poignant. nytimes.com/2018/10/30/us/…

“Green burial families want to be more engaged. They don’t want to put death in the closet” is a quote from this engaging article on the state of green burial in... sherwoodparkweather.com/given-grave-co…

The Spirit Sanctuary is a new natural burial ground in Essex, NY run by the Eddy Foundation /www.theeddy.org It is open to the public for low cost green burial with a proviso, that you must have... suncommunitynews.com/articles/the-s…

@GreenBurialVT @sevendaysvt Yes. A vault prevents even a biodegradable casket from biodegrading. Shame.

What frustrates us about this @sevendaysvt story is that it doesn’t mention that the majority of cemeteries in Vermont require you to buy a vault- which is a huge expense and prevents your body and its biodegradable container from being recycled into the ecosystem

A Vermont carpenter has made a business building caskets suitable for green burial and personalizing them with artwork. Matt Kasvinsky builds coffins at Vermont Custom Casket of... sevendaysvt.com/vermont/a-duxb…

Washougal, WA is considering adding green burial to options at Washougal Memorial Cemetery, making this the area's second cemetery to do so. Fern Prairie Cemetery in nearby Camas has... camaspostrecord.com/news/2018/oct/…

Join Candace Currie, Director of Planning & Sustainability at Mount Auburn Cemetery, and Kaat Vander Straeten for a conversation about the "new old practices" of green burial and home funerals on Tuesday, October 30 at 7:30 pm at the Wayland Free... patch.com/massachusetts/…

The third annual Provincetown's Day of the Dead Performing Arts Festival will include workshops on home-based, after-death care and natural burial options, according to Dawn... capecodtimes.com/lifestyle/2018…

Are you creative? Play Lab is a platform for aging experts and end-of-life practitioners to expand their thinking by pairing up with a community of imagineers. Bevival's founder Caren Martineau and... montclairdesignweek.org/events-1/works…

Darren Crouch at Passages International, Inc. - Green Funeral Products was at the National Funeral Directors Association convention at Salt Lake City promoting green burial to the conventional funeral world. His company promotes and sells... deseretnews.com/article/900037…

Here's a lovely concept from Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery. On October 28 it will hold the 8th Annual Memorial Celebration ceremony with food, music, walks on the... prairiecreekconservationcemetery.org/events/2018/10…

The South Farmington Friends Cemetery Association has decided to include a section for green burials in the restoration of its historic cemetery in Farmington, NY, creating another hybrid cemetery in the Rochester area, which has not been shy about... mpnnow.com/news/20181013/…

Last year's Celebrating Aging In Film Series in Montclair, NJ was a great success, interesting both for the films shown and the discussions. Presented by Bevival and Montclair Film, this year's series will... facebook.com/greenburialnat…