Outreach Tools

Educational Outreach Products

Explore these tools created for your educational outreach: handouts, factsheets, flyers, customizable slide presentation, rack card, bumper stickers, and infographics. All products are available for download to print out for your use. To get the infographics, simply click, drag, and drop to your desktop. Do you still need some help? Check out this guide to get you started: Helpful Tips for Giving Green Burial Presentations. Another great resource you can use is GBC's Speakers Bureau.

Handouts and Factsheets

Top 10 Real Answers to Questions Real People Ask About Green Burial
by Lee Webster
Find out why animals don’t dig up graves, what dangers to water reserves don’t actually exist, and how long it really takes for bodies to fully decompose in this snapshot exposé of the most frequently asked questions in the green burial world.

Basic Tenets of Green Burial Cemeteries
by Lee Webster and Merilynne Rush
One‐sheet handout that identifies shared characteristics of green burials, and addresses who wants a green burial how much it costs, and how to look for one.

The Case for Green Burials
by Lee Webster
One sheet informational presentation handout/flyer about green burial.

The Case for Home Funerals
by Lee Webster
One sheet informational presentation handout/flyer about home funerals.

The Science: Soil and Water
by Lee Webster
The top questions in any talk will often be about how soil and water may be affected by burial without vaults, toxic chemicals, and caskets. This excerpt from the more detailed The Science Behind Green Burial gets right to the facts to help attendees rest assured.

Why Green Burial is a Veteran's Issue
by Lee Webster
As the Veteran’s Administration considers opening green space in its national and state cemeteries, the GBC gets clear on why veterans deserve to have this option.

Why Home Funerals Matter to Our Veterans
by Lee Webster
The home funeral companion piece to Why Green Burial is a Veteran’s Issue, (above) explains why veterans may choose a home funeral prior to green burial or other disposition option.

Slide Presentation

This basic presentation is available here for download for your next public appearance. It is designed for you to customize as you see fit, making the information local and pertinent to your audience while covering the basics. Feel free to switch out images, change order, and make it speak for you in any way that works best.

Download (update May 2022)
The Greening of North American Cemeteries

Photo courtesy of Donelle Dreese, Heritage Acres, Cincinnati, OH

Rack Card

We are happy to provide you with a downloadable PDF file for printing your own green burial rack cards to display in your community anywhere you would like to share it. They are also helpful to have on hand when you are speaking to libraries, churches, schools, conservation groups, health organizations, senior centers, and anywhere else you might be spreading the word.