Helpful in making informative decisions concerning death care and what is done with the bodies of the deceased

1. Natural Burials in Green Cemeteries:
Reuniting People with the Environment

2. Burial choices
Family empowerment
Land protection
Open discussion

3. Burial through
the Ages

4. Civil War Era

5. High Tech
Disposal Options
Promession (freeze dry)
Resomation (alkaline hydrolysis)

6. Other options
Burial at Sea
in some areas
Funeral Pyre (open burning)

7. Evergreen Cemetery
Southeast Gainesville

8. Religion-affiliated
cemeteries

9. Cemetery businesses

10. Environmental Impacts
of Conventional Burial
Embalming / Vault Burials
(per year)
• 1.6 million tons concrete
• 104,000 tons of steel
• 2,700 tons copper/bronze
• 827,000 gallons formaldehyde
• Worker/groundwater impacts
• Costs consumer: $6,000 - $10,000
Source: Casket & Funeral Association of America
and Cremation Association of America

11. Environmental Impacts
of Cremation
• Releases pollutants such as mercury
and greenhouse gases
• Fossil fuel for 1400o F. for 2 hours
• 32% of U.S. burials in 2005,
more than 50% in Florida
• Costs consumer: $1,000 - $5,000
Source: Cremation Association of America

12. Finding Harmony
with Nature
Conservation Burial:
• Protects land in perpetuity
• Accomplishes ecological restoration
• Funds further land acquisition
• Costs consumer: $2000 for cemetery costs
Source: Green Burial Council

13. Green Burial Council
Three certification levels:
Hybrid Burial Grounds

14. Green Burial Council
Three certification levels:
Hybrid Burial Grounds
Natural Burial Grounds

15. Green Burial Council
Three certification levels:
Hybrid Burial Grounds
Natural Burial Grounds
Conservation Burial Grounds

16. Green Burial Council
Three certification levels:
Hybrid Burial Grounds
Natural Burial Grounds
Conservation Burial Grounds
Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery
is the first certified cemetery in Florida

17. Green Burial
in other places

18. Ramsey Creek Preserve –
Memorial Ecosystems, SC

19. Foxfield Preserve, Ohio

20. Glendale Memorial Preserve,
near DeFuniak Springs, Florida

21. Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery
Service of Blessing – October, 2010
First burial: Dr. Kathy Cantwell
July, 2010

22. CONSERVATION &
RESTORATION

24. PRAIRIE CREEK CONSERVATION CEMETERY

25. Biodegradable Burial Containers

29. Professional funeral director Family or friend as
Acting Funeral Director
Prairie Creek
Conservation Cemetery

30. Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery
Costs:
Human burial . . . . . . . . . . $2000
Cremated remains . . . . . . $ 250
Pet remains . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 100 - $400
(based on size)
Prices include opening and closing, grave
marker, and all proceeds go for perpetual
land management and acquisition of
additional conservation lands.
Prices do not include: transport to the
cemetery, optional funeral director
services, and optional rental of Lodge

31. The mission of
CONSERVATION BURIAL, INC.
is to promote natural burial practices
in cemeteries that conserve land and
re-unite people with the environment.

32. Website:
www.ConservationBurialinc.org

34. CONSERVATION BURIAL, INC.
DIRECTORS
Allan Moynihan, President
Sven Hanson, Vice President
Susan Marynowski, Secretary ADVISORS
Robert Hutchinson, Treasurer Tom Ankersen, Advisor
Laurie Jennings, Board member Fred Cantrell, Advisor
Mickey Milam, Board member Donna Isaacs, Advisor
Jim Wagner, Board member LoraKim Joyner, Advisor
Larry Schwandes, Advisor
Gardner, Bist, Wiener, Wadsworth,
& Bowden, PA – Legal counsel

35. QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

36. Freddie Johnson, Executive Director
PRAIRIE CREEK CONSERVATION CEMETERY
7204 SE County Road 234
Gainesville, FL 32641
(352) 317-7307
www.ConservationBurialinc.org