The mission of the Green Burial Council is to inspire and advocate for environmentally sustainable, natural death care through education and certification. The GBC offers these webinars to provide relevant information and resources to the general public.
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Register for our next webinar on Eventbrite HERE
Want to Launch a Hybrid Green Burial Ground?
Link to the recording of the Forum video call
Hybrid Cemetery FAQ
So You Want to Start a Green Burial Cemetery
Environmental Factors and Decomposition Rates of Pig Carcasses in Semi-natural Setting in Southern Illinois by Jessica Bookwalter
Hybrid Cemetery FAQ
So You Want to Start a Green Burial Cemetery
Environmental Factors and Decomposition Rates of Pig Carcasses in Semi-natural Setting in Southern Illinois by Jessica Bookwalter
Advocating for Legislative Change in Green Burial
Link to the recording of the Forum call video
The Law of Human Remains by Tanya Marsh
Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States by Tanya Marsh
More People Want a Green Burial But Cemetery Law Hasn't Caught Up by Alex Brown, Pew Charitable Trusts, November 20, 2019; reprinted by the Washington Post, November 30, 2019
The Law of Human Remains by Tanya Marsh
Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States by Tanya Marsh
More People Want a Green Burial But Cemetery Law Hasn't Caught Up by Alex Brown, Pew Charitable Trusts, November 20, 2019; reprinted by the Washington Post, November 30, 2019
Natural Burial Guidelines in the Time of Pandemic
Links to some resources to learn more and to help write temporary guidelines in cemeteries:
- Link to our Forum call video
- What is a Home Funeral? How to care for sick or deceased loved ones at home during coronavirus pandemic
- by Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek, March 26, 2020
- Home Funeral Guides and Pandemic Care by Lee Webster et al, March 24, 2020 (link to video is in the Newsweek article)
- Follow New York's Death Care Workers, by Dave Mosher, Business Insider, March 31, 2020
- "I'm a Funeral Director: The pandemic has made saying goodbye painfully lonely", by Char Barrett,
- Washington Post, April 1, 2020
- Funerals in the Age of Coronavirus, Caitlyn Doughty
- Conservation Burial Guidelines During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Conservation Burial Alliance
- CDC Projections
- CDC Body Care and Funeral Guidelines
- NFDA Guidelines
Spreading the Word: How to Be an Effective Advocate in Your Community
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Materials and Tools
The Green Burial Council webpage Educational Tools is the place to find links to:
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Being Prepared
We recommend reading as much as you can—the Education tab on your GBC webpage browser will yield lots of areas of exploration. Community advocates need to be ready to answer questions from the public. Here are the top questions we get, and their best answers! FAQs: Green Burial Defined FAQs: Conservation Burial FAQs FAQs: Hybrid Burial FAQs Information on other disposition options |
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Where to Speak?
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How to Get the Gig?
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Faith Communities and Green Burial
The Louisville Institute is sponsoring an initiative called "A Practical Theology of Corpse Care" that seeks to answer the question, “…How can clergy and congregations (re)engage in pastoral praxis in care for the dead? ” Learn more about the project and who is involved here.
Bury Me Green, a sermon from Rev. Bill Gupton, October 27, 2013, Heritage Unitarian Universalist Church, Cincinnati, OH
Mor(t)al Remains: Pastoral Theology and Corpse Care by the Reverend Cody J. Sanders, The Journal of Pastoral Theology, July 9, 2019
Ministry on death and dying teaches people how to plan for the end of life by Phillip Martin, Faith and Leadership, January 7, 2020
To Lie Down in Green Pastures: How the Catholic Church is leading the way in green burial by Lee Webster discusses Pope Francis' encyclical on nature and the environment that brought Catholic doctrine and the fast-moving trend toward green burial in Catholic cemeteries into alignment.
Bury Me Green, a sermon from Rev. Bill Gupton, October 27, 2013, Heritage Unitarian Universalist Church, Cincinnati, OH
Mor(t)al Remains: Pastoral Theology and Corpse Care by the Reverend Cody J. Sanders, The Journal of Pastoral Theology, July 9, 2019
Ministry on death and dying teaches people how to plan for the end of life by Phillip Martin, Faith and Leadership, January 7, 2020
To Lie Down in Green Pastures: How the Catholic Church is leading the way in green burial by Lee Webster discusses Pope Francis' encyclical on nature and the environment that brought Catholic doctrine and the fast-moving trend toward green burial in Catholic cemeteries into alignment.
