Billy Campbell is a rural doctor, an environmentalist and a pioneer in the Green Burial Movement in the USA opening the first modern "green cemetery" in North America. In 1998, he and his wife, Kimberley, opened the Ramsey Creek Preserve in upstate South Carolina. It specializes in burials that eschew embalming, traditional coffins and headstones in favor of a simpler, less costly, more natural approach. Graves are hand-dug, and instead of using expensive, finished coffins, … Wikipedia
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The Center for Etical Burial is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded to educate the public about opportunities to use the burial process as a means of producing public good, including reducing the ecological footprint of the cemetery and funeral indus www.greenburialcouncil.org
3/1/2007 - While it will take at least 80 clients to assure that the acreage is permanently protected, Dr. Garland Johnson, Nellie Campbell, and Dr. Billy and Kimberley Campbell have secured the 38 acres and one... www.ramseycreekpreserve.com