When I was still riding escorts, I had a habit of reading any trade journal I could get my hands on, just to earn more about the industry. Two or three years ago, one publication had a profile of a interesting cemetery. It allowed no monuments stones, metal caskets, or concrete vaults. You didn’t get a plot map, but a GPS fix for the grave. They didn’t have groundskeepers on staff; they had botanists. It was marketed more as a nature preserve than a cemetery.

That movement is continuing to grow. There are now a dozen certified “green” cemeteries across the country, and over 60 certified green funeral homes. There’s a book out about how families have done green burials. More funeral homes are starting to notice the movement, and so are more media outlets.

The Clarion-Ledger shares this story from the Indianapolis Star.