Georgia may rank near the very bottom when it comes to green living. When it comes to green death, however, we’re right near the top.

Two of the nation’s 15 “exclusively green” cemeteries are in Atlanta, according to the AJC.

And the proponent of one in Macon is planning to sue the county commission over an ordinance passed to block that cemetery.

Green cemeteries haven’t been welcomed in other places in Georgia. In November 2008, the Macon-Bibb County Commissioners killed a green cemetery proposal by passing an ordinance requiring leak-proof caskets or vaults for burials.

Elizabeth Collins, who proposed the project, said she probably scared the public by saying pagans and hippies might use the cemetery. Also, people in east Bibb County where the cemetery was planned carried a grudge, she said, about having a landfill “rammed down their throats.”

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