Resources and Links

Green Burial Pittsburgh

• Green Burial Pittsburgh Blog - under development
• Green Burial Pittsburgh Facebook Page
• Green Burial Pittsburgh Newsletter, January 2009
• Green Burial Pittsburgh Newsletter, May 2008
• GBP Prospectus for Funders
• Acknowledgment of GBP Donors

Green Burial Pittsburgh in News

• "Natural burial ground proposed in Penn Hills", January 20, 2011. By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• "Green burial sites gaining popularity", January 20, 2011. By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• Green Burial Pittsburgh, by By Kair L. Purvis, The Point North, July 2009
• Exploring Green Burials, The Allegheny Front Environmental Radio, June 24, 2009 (you can listen to the show by clicking here)
• KDKA Video on Green Burial Pittsburgh, April 22, 2009
• “Green funerals bring back old ideas,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 9, 2009
• “Group looks for land for green burials in Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 20, 2009

Other Videos about Green Burial across the US

• Green Burial, by Samantha Shipeck, a junior attending Pine-Richland High School, was named Best Documentary Film in the 2010 SciTech C.A.U.S.E. Challenge, a film festival sponsored by Bayer Corporation, Carnegie Science Center's Regional SciTech Initiative and Pittsburgh Filmmakers, April 22, 2010
• Weather Channel video about green cemeteries in South Carolina and Georgia
  
• KQED video about green burial in California

Merchandise that supports Green Burial Pittsburgh

• Buried in Books: Bookcase Casket. Dual-use furniture that leads to Sustainable Living and Green Burial. A portion of Bookcase Casket sales will go to support Green Burial Pittsburgh.
  

Related Organizations in Southwestern Pennsylvania

• Allegheny Land Trust
  
• Audubon Society of W. PA
  
• Final Journey Home (home funerals with Rev. Lynn Acquafondata)
  
• Fox Chapel Area Land Trust
  
• Friends of the Riverfront
  
• Funeral Consumers Alliance of W. PA
  
• Hollow Oak Land Trust
  
• Montour Trail Council
  
• Nine-Mile Run Watershed Association
  
• North Area Environmental Council
  
• PennFuture
  
• Pennsylvania Environmental Council
  
• Pine Creek Land Conservation Trust
  
• Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
  
• Sierra Club Allegheny Group
• South Fayette Conservation Group
  
• Student Conservation Association
  
• Sustainable Pittsburgh
• Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

If you would like to be added to this listing, please email your group's name and URL to mcquillin@greenburialpittsburgh.org. We would welcome a reciporcal listiing of Green Burial Pittsburgh your website, if possible.

National Links

• GreenBurial.org
• Green Burial Council
• Centre for Natural Burial
• Natural Death Centre
• Memorial Ecosystems - Home of the First Green Cemeteries in the U.S.
  

Last modified on: February 9, 2011