06/04/2021
According to the Green Burial Council, GBC certification allows consumers to be able to distinguish between the three levels of the green burial ground and understand that each has a different set of standards. It requires cemetery operators commit to a certain degree of transparency, accountability, and third-party oversight. And it prevents future owners from going back on whatever ecological or aesthetic promises have been made in the past—from limitations on burial density that protect a local ecosystem to prohibitions against the use of monuments that would negatively impact a viewshed.