The Centre for Natural Burial

By Green Space
A look at the growing movement towards natural, or green, burials with Doug Lovelace and Cinthia Beal of the Natural Burial Company.

Eco-friendly dying
By Peter Hadzipetros, CBC News
You’ve done your bit for the environment during your lifetime - minimizing to whatever extent possible your consumption of non-renewable resources and your discharge of stuff that is bad for the air we breathe and the water we drink.

It’s time for land trusts to enter the land of the dead.
by Stephen F. Christy, Jr.
Land Trust Alliance Exchange
It’s time for land trusts to enter the land of the dead. We’re already doing it. Think about our daily work.  Our newsletters overflow with successful land preservations, the enjoyment so many folks are having on these […]

The Mummy’s Bracelet (Blog)
The Natural Death Centre held a Green Funeral Exhibition yesterday, as a theme for their annual UK Day of the Dead events. I didn’t anticipate any jewellery-related exhibits or talks that might directly relate to my PhD research, but it’s always interesting to go to events organised by different groups with an […]

By Allison Jones, Canadian Press
TORONTO (CP) - Cycling to work, using energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs, eating organic food - Canadians are trying harder these days to be conscientious consumers.
But amid all this green living, just how green a legacy will we leave in death?

By HANK DANISEWSKI, SUN MEDIA
Some Londoners are opting for the simplest funeral possible - being cremated in cardboard box - a recycled cardboard box that sells for $195.
Dan Atkinson of London Cremation Services said environmental concerns are a growing issue as people plan their final exit.
“It comes up all the time when people make their […]

By A.J. Nelson, Reporter-Times.com
MORGAN COUNTY
The “green” burial might be catching on as a fad in some parts of the country, but local funeral directors are getting few requests for such an older way to inter the dead.

Greenhaven offers an ecofriendly and economical way of interring your loved one in a truly traditional and family led way. A way which pre-dates the formal rituals offered by high street funeral directors who follow a pattern which only arrived in Britain in Victorian times.

By Laura Shinn, Willamette Week Online
Some of us want a stylish sendoff to the afterlife. Let’s take Anna Nicole Smith, for example: She was laid to rest in a made-to-order pink couture gown inside a mahogany casket draped with a pink-sequined cover adorned with feathers and—you guessed it—pink ribbon. But we’re willing to bet those […]

By Global Cool
A reproductive biologist is urging the dead to join the battle against global warming by persuading their families to opt for eco-burials over cremations.