{"id":12911,"date":"2011-10-21T13:33:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12911"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:33:19","slug":"brock-grad-promotes-eco-friendly-burials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/10\/brock-grad-promotes-eco-friendly-burials\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock grad promotes eco-friendly burials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12925\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?attachment_id=12925\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12925 alignleft\" title=\"Courtney Heron-Monk\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/courtney-heron-monk-thumbnail-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Courtney Heron-Monk\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courtney Heron-Monk (BA \u201909), a graduate of Brock University&#8217;s Human Geography program, was recently featured in a <em>Toronto Star<\/em> article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1072207--how-to-keep-the-burial-process-lean-and-green#article\" target=\"_blank\">How to keep the burial process lean and green<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 As general manager of the Natural Burial Association, Heron-Monk speaks about eco-friendly alternatives to conventional burial practices.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nHow to keep the burial process lean and green<\/strong><br \/>\nOct. 18, 2011<br \/>\nBy Valerie Hauch<br \/>\nStaff Reporter<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s only 25 and in good health, but Courtney Heron-Monk has already given much thought to her burial plans. When she leaves this mortal coil, she\u2019ll have a natural interment \u2014 no fancy casket with varnished wood costing thousands of dollars, no concrete vault or embalming fluids which eventually leak into the soil, no cremation which uses a lot of fuel and releases gases into the air.<\/p>\n<p>As general manager of the Toronto-based Natural Burial Association \u2014 a non-profit which promotes the establishment of natural burial grounds as a land use planning tool to create, protect and link natural spaces \u2014 Heron-Monk is an expert in eco-friendly alternatives to the conventional burial. She says the NBA\u2019s goal is not to put an end to conventional burial and cremation practices but to draw attention to natural burial as a sustainable option and educate the public.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the article visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/1072207--how-to-keep-the-burial-process-lean-and-green\" target=\"_blank\">thestar.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Heron-Monk (BA &#8217;09), a graduate of Brock University&#8217;s Human Geography program, was recently included in a Toronto Star article, &#8220;How to keep the burial process lean and green&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[3333,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12911"}],"version-history":[{"count":75,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12998,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions\/12998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}