Green Burial Movement Spreads to the Southwest

by Ted Robbins, NPR

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.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, September 21, 2006