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Green Is the New Dead
Green-burial movement gets more ambitious
27 Jul 2006
“I’d prefer to be put in the ground, under a tree,” says Joe Sehee, contemplating his inevitable demise. “But I don’t want to go in the ground with anything, I just want to be buried in a simple pine box or shroud, and that’s it.”
If Sehee has given his preferences a lot of thought lately, it’s not that he’s planning to shuffle off this mortal coil any more imminently than the rest of us — it’s just that, as executive director of the Green Burial Council, it’s his job. (more…)
Green
June 14, 2006
A biweekly column appearing on SFGate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, and the leading news and information site in the Bay Area.
Green explores regional environmental issues, people, politics, and contexts in the most environmentally aware part of the United States. (more…)
A Cure for What Jails Ya
May 4, 2006
An interview with jailed “eco-terrorist” Jeffrey Luers
04 May 2006
In 2000, 21-year-old Jeff Luers and an accomplice set fire to three pickup trucks at a dealership in Eugene, Ore., to bring attention to gas-guzzlers’ contribution to global warming. They were promptly arrested. Luers, who refused to plea bargain, was sentenced to 22 years, eight months in prison. It is the longest term ever handed down for environmentally motivated sabotage in America — and far longer than sentences given to arsonists in Oregon who have destroyed more property and endangered peoples’ lives.
But Luers’ sentence may be surpassed if any of the upcoming trials of 11 people arrested in January for eco-motivated arson and vandalism yield convictions. (more…)