The Centre for Natural Burial

Green movement progressing to cemeteries
By Karen Nugent TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Before the mid-1800s, families cared for their dead — holding wakes at home and burying loved ones in simple wooden caskets, often on their own property, where they could visit grave sites whenever the mood struck.
Those practices changed for several reasons, according to Mark Harris, […]

By KIM BRISCOE, Evening News 24
Many people choose to devote their spare time to knitting jumpers, scarves or baby clothes for family and friends, but Fiona Dowson has put her spinning and weaving skills to a more melancholic end.
A growing market for eco-funerals has led the 42-year-old to set up a business creating green burial […]

By Kapiti Coast District Council
Kapiti Coast residents are being asked their views on whether natural burials should be allowed on the Kapiti Coast and where such burials should take place.

KAY BLUNDELL - The Dominion Post
It is no longer fashionable to leave a large carbon footprint … even after you are dead.
Environmentally friendly Kapiti Coasters are lobbying for an eco-friendly burial park. Jocelyn Thornton spearheaded the establishment of the Kapiti Natural Burial Group two years ago with the goal of creating a park where native […]

Julia Carlisle, Brisbane Times
There’s a burning environmental issue that Robert Larkins wants to address, and he’s dead serious about it.
If we really want to help the planet we should stop getting cremated, says Larkins, the author of Funeral Rights, a new book about the Australian funeral industry.

By LOUISA PEARSON, Scotland on Sunday
DON’T fear the reaper,” sang Blue Oyster Cult back in 1976. Following that instruction was probably feasible back in the 1970s, when climate chaos only popped up in disaster movies as opposed to everyday living. But here in the 21st century, death comes with responsibilities. And if you’re dying to […]

Eie Flud Blog
Eco living is a bit of a misnomer! Because, not one to miss an opportunity to be full of woe! Today is all about eco-dying!!

Green burials ensure folks live an eco lifestyle—even in the afterlife.
By Alison Sherbach, Plenty Magazine
Four miles off the highway, up a hill, and at the end of a tree-lined gravel road in the quiet town of Newfield, NY sits a pistachio-colored cottage. The small, solar-powered building resides in a pleasant meadow, and nearby are nine […]

Isabel Berney, Roanoke Times
Berney, of Blacksburg, is a member of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of the Virginia Blue Ridge.
Joe Kennedy relates the sad state of Roanoke’s municipal cemetery, Coyner Springs, its potter’s field, in Botetourt Country in his Cuppa Joe column of July 1 (”Cemetery becomes a cause for woman”). As City Manager Darlene Burcham […]

America’s Environmental Footprint
By N. Katers, AC
In recent weeks, the news and alternative media have been deluged with stories on Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” but there has been a dearth of stories on the debate over the efficacy of using wind farms for energy and the tensions between the growth of McMansions in exurbs and […]