Portland sustainability efforts move to green burial services

GHN News - Karen Covington - In
keeping with the growing sustainability movement in Portland, five
local funeral homes are offering green burial services and supporting a
local non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the Columbia River
Gorge. 

Lincoln Memorial Park & Funeral Home, Skyline
Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, Young’s Funeral Home, Ross Hollywood
Chapel and Bateman Funeral Home are all members of the Green Burial
Council and now offer a range of earth-friendly products, services and
tributes designed to reflect the deep respect Portlanders have for the
environment.

“People who love nature want to honor that
commitment at the end of their lives,” said J. C. Aubry, Market Director
of Dignity Memorial providers, a network of more than 1,800 funeral,
cremation and cemetery service providers in North America.

These
locations will also support Friends of Columbia Gorge by promoting
awareness of the organization and by offering customers the special
opportunity to establish an honorarium for family and friends to donate
to the organization on behalf of their loved one. Portland Dignity
Memorial providers will match all donations made by their customers up
to $5,000.

The funeral homes will also support Friends of
Columbia Gorge through activities and by promoting awareness of the
organization through their websites and locations in the Portland area.


Friends of the Columbia Gorge is a 30-year old organization with nearly
5,000 members in Oregon and Washington and dedicated to protecting the
wild and beautiful Columbia Gorge. Through an agreement with Friends of
Columbia Gorge, the businesses will also offer customers the opportunity
to establish honorariums for family and friends to donate to
conservation work in the Columbia Gorge.

“Protecting the
Columbia Gorge means making it a better place for our future
generations,” said Kevin Gorman, executive director of Friends of the
Columbia Gorge. “In the same vein, green burial services work toward the

same goal: making our planet a better place for the next generation.”