The Centre for Natural Burial

The Shropshire Star
At her funeral parlour in Ludlow, she says her final send off will reflect her life: “green” and fun.

By: Wendy Skinner, Ithaca Times
“I was at the first Earth Day celebration, in Philadelphia … I was 11 … I had my clogs painted with the Earth Day symbol of the sun and the water and soil … I remember a lot of people, music … that whole free love, hippy, peace sign, groovy feeling. […]

By Gary Smith - Active Rain Realestate Network (Blog)
Back in the “Ma and Pa Kettle” days, most rural funerals were done on the family farm. There may or may not have been a casket. But, if there was it was made of wood.  Since that time, the trend in funerals has been for the remains […]

Austrlian researcher suggest that people should be buried upright in a cardboard box under a tree.
By Agence France-Presse
An Australian scientist called Wednesday for an end to the age-old tradition of cremation, saying the practice contributed to global warming. Professor Roger Short said people could instead choose to help the environment after death by being buried […]

By Camille Adair’s “a lifelong practice”
April 18th, 2007
Today Camille is joined by Joe Sehee, executive director of the “Green Burial Council” and Cynthia Jones. Please visit the Green Burial Council for more information. “One’s death should mean something.” - Edward Abbey Download Green Burial Joe Sehee is executive director of the Green Burial Council, a […]

By Camille Adair, A Lifelong Practice (Blog)
“One’s death should mean something.”
- Edward Abbey
Joe Sehee is executive director of the Green Burial Council, a nonprofit organization he founded to encourage sustainability in the death care industry and to use the burial process as a means of facilitating ecological restoration and landscape level conservation.

By Bruce Ritchie, Tallahassee Democrat
Fran Sullivan-Fahs has a worm composting bin where she recycles fruit peels and other kitchen scraps. She gives away worms as Christmas presents to other gardeners. So when she dies, Sullivan-Fahs says, she wants to be put in a plain wooden casket and buried without a vault to encourage decomposition. She […]

Green Burials, Body Donation, and Other Ways to Responsibly and Respectfully Care for the Dead
By Karama C. Neal, AC
The cost of funerals is rapidly approaching $10,000, not as much as most weddings, but still pretty steep. The expense alone is enough reason to consider burial alternatives, but you may also be concerned for other reasons. […]

By Marisa, Jewish Life, Environment (blog)
I honestly can’t remember now what I was searching for online when I first stumbled on this website. I’d never heard of Green Burial before, but being an environmentalist as well as someone who believes in planning ahead, I was intrigued. By the time I’d finished reading through all of […]

Electronically translated (AKA, very poorly translated) from French
By Sophie Massé, Urbania
Raoul Bretzel and Anna Citelli, two Italian designers, are proud to present Capsuled it Mundi. An organic coffin. A large egg of bioplastic which can accommodate the body in foetal position