Ann Hoffner

Society of Environmental Journalists / Investigative Reporters and Editors / Boating Writers International / American Society of Journalists and Authors

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It's Live! Second Edition of The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide available for purchase at https://t.co/hR93xZvnRO
digital complete and regional versions available. Print coming soon.

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Article about green burial in Australia, its difficulties and promise. I find it interesting that a country the size of the continental US with a population of 25 million, most of it on the coasts, is running out of cemetery room! https://t.co/YYjGMs4xMa

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KIRO 7 News Radio’s traffic reporter Chris Sullivan was pall bearer at a green burial at Woodlawn Cemetery in Snohomish WA, a Green Burial Council certified hybrid cemetery. "Okay. I joked with my wife,... https://t.co/mX5afaMJCF

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News video of Woodland Memorial Park Funeral Home & Cemetery, a Green Burial Council certified hybrid cemetery in Sand Springs, OK. According to Vonda Ewell whose husband recently received a... https://t.co/J4nn7hm4pJ

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Laura B. Hayden - author for SevenPonds blog interviewed Jonas Zahn for a series "What do you need to know about green caskets?" Zahn, owner of Northwoods Casket Company, has always included in his... https://t.co/grMd6yD4st

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New Zealand has 19 green burial cemeteries, many more for population size than here in the US. The movement has grown faster than any previous form of “post-death disposition”, according to Natural Burials, a non-profit... https://t.co/VXxaKoicpc

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Ellen Stroud, an environmental historian at Penn State University, has a fascination with corpses. "I like thinking about how our... https://t.co/wv65yb8gQt

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Washing the dead by the Pittsburgh chevra kadisha to honor the victims of the synagogue shootings will be difficult and poignant. https://t.co/sAYpGyms2I

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“Green burial families want to be more engaged. They don’t want to put death in the closet” is a quote from this engaging article on the state of green burial in... https://t.co/giXk68MBgZ

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The Spirit Sanctuary is a new natural burial ground in Essex, NY run by the Eddy Foundation /www.theeddy.org It is open to the public for low cost green burial with a proviso, that you must have... https://t.co/nmSipuV9vL

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@GreenBurialVT @sevendaysvt Yes. A vault prevents even a biodegradable casket from biodegrading. Shame.

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A Vermont carpenter has made a business building caskets suitable for green burial and personalizing them with artwork. Matt Kasvinsky builds coffins at Vermont Custom Casket of... https://t.co/FFfCownvX9

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Washougal, WA is considering adding green burial to options at Washougal Memorial Cemetery, making this the area's second cemetery to do so. Fern Prairie Cemetery in nearby Camas has... https://t.co/NchSBP4xHp

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Join Candace Currie, Director of Planning & Sustainability at Mount Auburn Cemetery, and Kaat Vander Straeten for a conversation about the "new old practices" of green burial and home funerals on Tuesday, October 30 at 7:30 pm at the Wayland Free... https://t.co/rvJYKAGiy5

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The third annual Provincetown's Day of the Dead Performing Arts Festival will include workshops on home-based, after-death care and natural burial options, according to Dawn... https://t.co/Y68WJqcjgp

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Are you creative? Play Lab is a platform for aging experts and end-of-life practitioners to expand their thinking by pairing up with a community of imagineers. Bevival's founder Caren Martineau and... https://t.co/5UZXIxf2Dg

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Darren Crouch at Passages International, Inc. - Green Funeral Products was at the National Funeral Directors Association convention at Salt Lake City promoting green burial to the conventional funeral world. His company promotes and sells... https://t.co/XmUvOTXkaO

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Here's a lovely concept from Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery. On October 28 it will hold the 8th Annual Memorial Celebration ceremony with food, music, walks on the... https://t.co/hLUQ0eGd36

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The South Farmington Friends Cemetery Association has decided to include a section for green burials in the restoration of its historic cemetery in Farmington, NY, creating another hybrid cemetery in the Rochester area, which has not been shy about... https://t.co/2CbCKsR5Eb

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Last year's Celebrating Aging In Film Series in Montclair, NJ was a great success, interesting both for the films shown and the discussions. Presented by Bevival and Montclair Film, this year's series will... https://t.co/TTI6GbwwUA