The Centre for Natural Burial

Times and Star
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a green burial ground at Lorton are likely to be refused, more than two years after they were first submitted.

By Jodi Peterson, Dear friends
Singer/songwriter John Winn of Grand Junction, Colo., tells us his latest CD, Wild Stallion, contains a song titled “Mother Earth” that was inspired by one of our Writers on the Range opinion columns. “Just bury me out on the lone prairie” appeared on Jan. 12, 2004, and described author Patricia Walsh’s […]

The up-and-coming green burial movement dovetails nicely with environmentalism, “non-organized” spirituality and genuine, noncorporate culture.
By Todd Spencer, Common Ground
It’s hard to write about death with funk playing. I’ll have to turn this nasty funk tha hell down. Nothing less “goth” than funk music, it turns out.
OK. Imagine your grandmother’s organ playing.

A hands-on, spiritual facet of the green burial movement takes the funeral director and the funeral home out of the picture
By Bill Strubbe, Common Ground
Home funeral guide Jerrigrace Lyons, director/founder of Final Passages in Sebastopol, was the first to facilitate a green burial at Fernwood.

By Bill Strubbe, Common Ground
Six feet under will never be the same if artisans catering to the green burial movement have their way. Whereas once a family’s standard internment choices might include the The Bel-Air Mahagony, The Regency or The Count Dracula (coffins that typically run from $2000 to $10,000), “green death” craftspeople are creating […]

Green burial lets humans feed the daisies, not just push them up
By Jaye Christensen, Common Ground
Last year 22,500 cemeteries across the United States buried 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, 104,272 tons of steel, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze, 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods and 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete.

Green Cemeteries Fund Conservation
By Nancy Bazilchuk, Conservation In Practice Vol. 8 No. 1
The Galisteo Basin Preserve in New Mexico is a conservationist’s dream. The 5,260-hectare parcel is blanketed by a patchwork of pinon and juniper forests and blue grama grasslands, with raptors wheeling overhead while jackrabbits and coyotes lope down dry arroyos. And if Joe […]

Baby boomers are taking green living to the final frontier — with green burial.
By Sharon OBrien, Your Guide to Senior Living.
Pioneer practice of green burial makes a comeback with baby boomers
Green burial has a much smaller impact on the environment than traditional casket burial, and is intended to provide environmental and ecological benefits over time.

Qualicum News. Parksville, B.C.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals.
Makes me sad to realize I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.
– Garrison Keillor
We humans do a lot of stupid things in a lot of stupid ways but few can match the way we let ourselves be treated after we […]

By Bridget Wayland, Harrowsmith Country Life Magazine
You recycle. You carpool. You go organic. If you re an ecoconscious person, you try to minimize your impact on the planet every chance you get. How ironic, then, if all the virtuous principles you lived by get overturned in the end-the very end.