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Green Burial Council Recognized for Combating Greenwashing
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The certification standards and education work of the Green Burial Council have been instrumental in fighting greenwashing related to burial practices. Merriam-Webster defines greenwashing as "expressions of environmentalist concern especially as a cover for products, policies, and activities."
Read more, including what other organizations can learn and do, from this conversation with John Niedfeldt-Thomas, Chief Association Executive for the Green Burial Council International, in Associations Now, published by ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership.
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Green Life, Death and Future
2022 Virtual Conference
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The RiverStyx Foundation has returned as Lead Sponsor for the Green Burial Council conference. We are extremely grateful for support at this level each year of the conference, beginning in 2020.
Sponsorship opportunities and program content will be shared soon on GBC social media and the GBC 2022 Conference webpage.
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Congratulations to the following providers for receiving
Green Burial Council Certification!
Click on the links below to learn more about their services.
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Ridley Funeral Home of Etobicoke, ON is family owned and operated with more than 100 years of funeral planning history, and supports and encourages green burial practices.
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Weil Kahn Funeral Home, located in Cincinnati, OH has served families in their times of need for four generations. Weil Kahn offers green burial options and are proud to help further educate the Cincinnati community on more sustainable, cleaner end-of-life options available.
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Cementerio Los Parques, located in Villa Nueva, Guatemala is the first GBC certified cemetery in Central America! In this hybrid cemetery, ecological farewell tributes are a way of caring for the life legacy of loved ones, with minimal environmental impact.
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New Certificates of Proficiency
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Certificate of Proficiency in Green Funeral Service
The Green Burial Council and Mid-America College of Funeral Service program is the first of its kind in the nation, and gives students a dynamic foundation for offering green alternatives in their community. Obtaining the Certificate of Proficiency in Green Funeral Service consists of two parts — successfully completing the Changing Landscapes in Green Funeral Service course, and passing the GBC’s Proficiency Exam. Learn more here.
Congratulations to Leta Keane for recently earning the Certificate of Proficiency in Green Funeral Service.
Certificate of Proficiency in Green Burial Cemetery Operation
The Green Burial Council and Redesigning the End are partnering to provide a certificate of proficiency for qualifying students of the Green Burial Masterclass online course in green burial. This 12-part course is the first of its kind in the nation and gives students a high-end technical education in cemetery management specific to green burial. Obtaining the Certificate of Proficiency in Green Burial Cemetery Operation consists of two parts — successfully completing the Green Burial Masterclass and passing the GBC’s Proficiency Exam. Learn more here.
Congratulations to Louisa Horne, Kathleen Matuszak, Emily Miller, Adam Vokáč, and Kayla Willingham for recently earning the Certificate of Proficiency in Green Burial Cemetery Operation.
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Let’s dig into Land Trusts & Conservation Burial Grounds
(not literally)
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Conservation burial is the most environmentally stringent of the Green Burial Council’s burial ground standards. In addition to meeting all standards required of hybrid and natural burial grounds, conservation burial also requires the following:
- Applying strategies to preserve, enhance, or restore native habitat and species
- Conserve or restore 20 acres, or 5 acres if there is surrounding protected lands
- Guarantee preservation of the burial ground by conservation easement that runs with the land and is enforceable in perpetuity.
- Partner with a government agency or nonprofit conservation organization that is responsible for holding, monitoring, and enforcing the easement.
Kate Berdan, a member of the Green Burial Council's 501(C)(6) Board of Directors, addresses the benefits of conservation burial, and exciting news of two land trusts that are creating their own conservation burial grounds, in the newest GBC blog post.
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Casper Creek Natural Cemetery; Photo: Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation
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"A PODCAST ON HOW DEATH IN AMERICA IS CHANGING, FROM THE LENS OF AN ANTHROPOLOGIST, INCLUDING THE ROLE OF GREEN BURIAL"
What does our relationship with the dead tell us about the living? Anthropologists learn about ancient cultures by studying their burial sites, but could we do the same with contemporary America? Those are the questions that University of Chicago anthropologist and historian Shannon Lee Dawdy set out to answer in her new book, American Afterlives: Reinventing Death In The Twenty-first Century.
In this podcast (with transcript) from the University of Chicago, Shannon discusses societal and cultural shifts in response to climate change, COVID-19 and the personalization of everything, including DIY funerals and green burials.
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"GREEN BURIAL AS A 'CULMINATING CLIMATE SENSITIVE ACT'"
“It’s the type of disposition for a person to make a statement about how they felt about the world rather than just themselves."
How do people outside of the funeral industry come to learn about green burial? What experiences and ideas prompt them to really consider it? In this article, featuring Green Burial Council certified hybrid cemetery Prairie Rest at Forest Home Cemetery, we hear about how one serendipitous trip to a local farmers' market planted the seed of consideration for green burial for some folks in Milwaukee, but what other steps had to unfold before it was their preference, and what this choice means for many.
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Donate to the Green Burial Council
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Green Burial Council International is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit organization.
Donations are deductible and our tax ID number is 45-4422635.
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For more details about these events please go to the GBC webpage, What’s Happening.
Green Burial Café
Green Burial Nova Scotia
Last Wednesday of Each Month, 12:00 pm ADT • Online via Zoom
For more information, visit the Green Burial Nova Scotia Facebook page
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