The Centre for Natural Burial

A photographic tour of Ramsey Creek Preserve
By MSN Lifestyles

China is actively promoting the idea of “green burial” as 16,556 acres of land is being consumed for building tombs to cremate 20 million Chinese dying each year.

The Environmentally Friendly Way to Be Buried
By Blair Mathis, AC
Many people are more aware of environmental dangers and the need for ‘green’ preservation than any other time. Some feel it is their duty, while others follow that need as a way of life.
But what about after death? For those who dedicate their lives to preserving […]

Northwest Florida Daily News
Motorists can expect delays when traveling through north Walton County this afternoon. The funeral service for Army Sgt. Tim “Timmy” Padgett, who was killed in Afghanistan, will start at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church on Circle Drive in DeFuniak Springs.
Burial with full military honors will follow at Glendale Memorial […]

by Laura Godfrey, Assistant Arts Editor, Excalibur
Thousands of people recently found out just how easy it is to be green at Toronto’s first Green Living Show. The event, which ran from April 27 to 29 in the Direct Energy Centre at Exhibition Place, featured hundreds of booths with products and information on environmentally friendly ways […]

Latest installment in green lifestyle stories urges making one’s final decision earth-friendly.
By Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute
The media have been all over stories of eccentric families’ toilet paperless lifestyles and their green weddings, but now CNN has pushed the peripheries of ecological awareness to the end of life by making the case for a […]

Say No to Trash (blog)
The effect mainstream funeral practises have on the earth is something I had thought a little about but never really researched. I knew the embalming chemicals were bad news, not to mention the space bodies take up in the earth, so I wondered about cremation and if that was any better. […]

Shannon Beahen, Ottawa Xpress
How we die says a lot about how we live
This issue is our first Art of Living special and for it we’ve chosen stories that look at some unique or artful ways some of us choose to live: It may be where we skateboard, where we meet others of the same ideology, […]

Newfield cemetery takes unconventional approach to burials.
Back The entrance sign says “Greensprings Natural Cemetery.”
But where are the grave stones, mausoleums, well-manicured grassy plots and paved roads? The place looks more like a farmer’s field than a cemetery.

Jen Baról, The Albuquerque Tribune
Theresa Doyle was an independent woman, an unconventional woman, a free-thinker who taught her children to question society and not to settle for its norms. She was also a quiet, rural woman whose life followed a simple philosophy: cherish your privacy and take care of your own business.
So it only made […]