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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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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
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