August 22, 2004

Cemetery embraces environmentalism

Washington Post

The Daphne Fernwood Cemetery in Mill Valley, Tenn., soon to be renamed Forever Fermwood, will be a green cemetery.

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Marin cemetery: Ashes to ashes, dust to mulch

By Peter Fimrite, the San Francisco Chronicle

Marsha Goldberg has every intention of pushing up daisies when she dies. Daisies, wildflowers and a big redwood tree, too.

Goldberg is calling dibs on her choice of burial sites on a hilly, forested 32-acre stretch of land in Mill Valley, where she is making plans to become fertilizer at the country’s first permanently protected cemetery, nature preserve and wildlife sanctuary.

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August 21, 2004

Back to basics

By Andrea Wright , The Enterprise

LAKE LIVINGSTON — From the catahoula barrens, the big blue heron flapped its wings and sailed outward over the lake, followed by a snowy white egret. By sundown, even in August, the breeze rustling through the droopy Spanish moss was crisp and cool.

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