Thursday, June 24, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24, from 6 - 8 p.m.
Green burial has sparked an interest among land conservation circles in Maine recently, according to the Conservancy, in a news release. The idea isn’t new — interment without concrete vaults, embalming, or unrecyclable components was the way all burials were conducted until a few generations ago. What is new is that land trusts are thinking of green cemeteries as a way of conserving land in perpetuity for gentle multi-use — trails, habitat, and green space as well as burials.