According the the Nov. 06 issue of
Health, the Green Burial Council is creating U. S. Certification for Eco-Burials. Billy Campbell sits on the Advisory Board of this group.
"That's where the new standards, developed in consultation with consumer advocates, land trusts, and landscape architects, come in. Sehee hopes to do for death-care what
organic standards and
Fair Trade certification have done for the supermarket. "We're making it easy for consumers to distinguish between environmentally and consumer-friendly providers and those who are not operating that way," he says. "That, to me, is the crux of this issue."
.........[these quotes are from an online environmental journal............
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/07/27/dicum/
"There's a cultural barrier to green burial in mainstream culture," says Kim Sorvig, a landscape architect at the University of New Mexico who serves as an advisor to the Green Burial Council. "We have a detachment or denial about people dying. You can go your entire life and never be confronted with the actual facts of death."
Sorvig says planning for conservation burial can change the way people view their own deaths, and thus their lives. "People are depriving themselves of important psychological or spiritual connections by playing along with the idea of death embedded in the conventional culture," says Sorvig. "This offers great potential for engaging people now and helping them connect with the cycle of birth and death as a part of human ecology -- it's a very meaningful use of the earth."
PS is anyone reading any of this? Do any of you care anymore? Or am I just sittin over here jerkin the gherkin?
