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Supporting Conversations Around Death 

Learn more about Conservation Burial from the Conservation Burial Alliance
​How Green Burials Work and How They Help the Environment, LX News, 8/30/22 
The Piedmont's First Conservation Cemetery is Rethinking Burial
, 9th Street Journal, 4/5/22
Saving the Environment and Cash Through Green Burial, WebMD, 4/4/22
​In These Cemeteries, Nature Also Rests in Peace, National Geographic, April 2022
Piecing Together the Green Burial Movement, Bitter Southerner, 2/8/22
Green Burials Can Change Our Relationship With Death and Help the Earth, Washington Post, 12/17/21
From Fiction to Reality: Could Forests Replace Cemeteries, Grist 9/14/21​
Black Churches and Green Funerals, Duke Divinity School
, 5/18/21 

Central Virginia Farm Proposes Natural Burial Ground, AP 5/9/21
How to Hold a Virtual Funeral Service, NY Times 1/14/21
​The Power (and Joy) of Being Prepared, NY Times 1/7/21
How do you foster a "good death" in a racist society, LA Times 6/25/20
Amid the Pandemic, Stories of Grief Upended, Washington Post 5/1/20
More Catholics choose 'green burials' hoping for a lighter footprint, US Catholic, 4/21/20
I'm a Funeral Director. The pandemic has made saying goodbye painfully lonely, Washington Post 4/1/20
Virtual Memorials and No Hugs, Mother Jones 3/23/20
Eco Friendly Cemeteries? Washington Post 11/30/19
The Death Issue, Yes! Magazine Fall 2019
You're Going to Die, Independent Weekly 10/29/19
How Death Doulas Ease the Transition, Yes! Magazine 10/8/19
Return to Nature, Yes! Magazine 8/15/19
Rest Me in a Pine Box and Let the Fiddle Play, NY Times 7/26/19
​We Need a Greener Way to Die (with video), Popular Science 5/23/19
Pushing Up Trees, The Guardian 11/10/18
The Art of Dying Well, 5280 Denver's Mile High Magazine 10/18
Thinking About Having a Green Burial? NY Times 3/22/18
Why Caring for Our Dead is an Act of Social Justice, Wake Forest Law Review 2/10/18
Kate's Still Here, Esquire 11/15/17 
With Conservation Burials, Death Gives New Life, EcoWatch 11/9/17
This Is How I Want to Be Dead, NYTimes 7/7/17 
The Disappearance of a Distinctively Black Way to Mourn, Atlantic 1/26/16
After Death: 8 Burial Alternatives That Are Going Mainstream, LiveScience 9/9/11 ​

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Planning 
End of Life Resources and Support 

Aldergrove Caskets
Center for End of Life Transitions
Conservation Burial Alliance
The Conversation Project   
Death Faire 

Funeral Consumers Alliance of North Carolina 
NH Home Funeral Resources, Education and Advocacy 
Pandemic: Care for those who die at home, Green Burial Project 
Shrouding Sisters
The Art of Dying 
The Green Burial Project
The Sophia Center for Life Studies
Transitions LifeCare

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Friends and Colleagues
Gratitude for Your Support and Counsel ​ 

  • Conserving Carolina
  • Durham Friends Meeting 
  • Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association  
  • Eno River Association 
  • Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
  • Farm Church​
  • Green Burial Massachusetts
  • Kestrel Land Trust
  • Land Trust Alliance 
  • Lee Webster 
  • Penn Forest Natural Burial Park
  • Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South ​
  • Triangle Land Conservancy​

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Conservation Burial Alliance
Growing the Movement  

  • ​Baldwin Hill Conservation Cemetery
  • Carolina Memorial Sanctuary
  • Foxfield Preserve​
  • Heartwood Preserve
  • Kokosing Nature Preserve 
  • Larkspur Conservation at Taylor Hollow 
  • Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery 
  • Ramsey Creek Preserve 
  • White Eagle Memorial Preserve​​


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  • HOME
    • The Land
    • A Place for Everyone
    • Why Bluestem
    • The Bluestem Story
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    • FAQs
  • Community
    • Who We Are
    • Bluestem Meditations
    • Bluestem Conversations
    • Friday Workdays
    • Events
    • Newsletter
    • Building Community
  • Green Burial
    • Principles
    • Planning for Burial
    • Burial Costs
    • Burial Areas
    • Conservation Burial
    • Remembering Loved Ones
    • One Family's Story
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