A new Johnson County nonprofit could bring the first conservation burial cemetery in the state of Iowa. Founded this year, the Back to Ground Natural Burial Cemetery group is in talks with local land trusts and the national Conservation Burial Alliance to give those in Iowa easier access to an all-natural, or green, burial option..
“Green” or “natural” burials have become increasingly popular over the past two decades. In Florida, there are at least seven cemeteries that offer the service. Nearly all of them are in Central Florida, requiring South Florida families to drive hundreds of miles to bury their dead, producing carbon emissions along the way.
“Green” or “natural” burials have become increasingly popular over the past two decades. In Florida, there are at least seven cemeteries that offer the service. Nearly all of them are in Central Florida, requiring South Florida families to drive hundreds of miles to bury their dead, producing carbon emissions along the way.
Green burials do away with elaborate caskets, embalming fluids, concrete vaults and tombstones. The result is fewer carbon emissions than cremations and less impact on the climate.
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