on Sep 22nd, 2006NPR Senior Stories: Disable Activists, Green Burial
Disabled Activists Win Battle for Independent Care
Earlier this summer, federal officials announced they will provide two billion dollars to states that help people leave nursing homes — instead of paying for them to live in one. That plan was the result of an unlikely alliance between severely disabled activists and a White House official.
Green Burial Movement Spreads to the Southwest
The Green Burial Council announced the nation’s first standards for environmentally friendly burials. The regimen, which proscribes embalming, vaults, or metal caskets, has been used in Britain for a decade. Now the debate is whether the methods touted by the council, based in New Mexico, will catch on across America.
The Green Burial Council is a nonprofit organization founded to encourage ethical and sustainable practices in the deathcare industry, and to use the burial process as a means of facilitating ecological restoration and landscape-level conservation.
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