The Centre for Natural Burial

An Atlanta-area monastery looks to “green burials” to sustain a cloistered lifestyle
by Gabrielle Coppola, Business Week Magazine
Father Francis Michael, abbot of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery, spends his days watching the birds, butterflies, and dragonflies that inhabit the order’s grounds about 30 miles east of downtown Atlanta. In August, the monks of Our […]

By Catherine Collins, Evening Telegraph
Concerns have been voiced over the sites earmarked for a town’s new cemetery after it was revealed the existing one could be full in as little as two years. Rushden Town Council fears the cemetery in Newton Road will be full between the next two to 10 years and has asked […]

By CYRUS LEVESQUE
BRISTOL — For some, concern for the environment is a lifelong passion, but that doesn’t have to be the end of it. A local group is trying to start an eco-cemetery, where the interred are buried in biodegradable caskets without being embalmed, as an alternative to conventional burial methods.

When It Comes to Honoring the Dead, If It’s Not ‘Dangerous or Illegal,’
Tyler Cassity Will Do It
By John Berman and Sarah Rosenberg, ABC News
Imagine a burial with no casket or tombstone, incessant chanting, and no embalming. Such ceremonies are not only occurring in distant countries with distinctive cultures, but also in the great state of […]

KIM BRISCOE, Norwich Evening News 24
A woodland burial park on the outskirts of Norwich is celebrating a hat trick after winning an award for the third year running. Colney Woodland Burial Park retained its title as the nation’s top green burial site in the 2007 Cemetery of the Year Awards.

Habits Not Peculiar (Blog)
“In a narrow grave, just six by three
We buried him there on the lone prairie”
American funeral practices are undergoing rapid changes with so called “natural” and “green” options becoming more common methods of dealing with the deceased.

Carrol County Times
Walking through the bucolic countryside of New York’s Finger Lake region offers the hiker a wide variety of trees, wildflowers and native birds, and one of the latest trends in the funeral industry, Greenspring Natural Cemetery Preserve.

By Caroline Cummins, January Magazine
When Jessica Mitford’s 1963 exposé, The American Way of Death, became a bestseller, readers were shocked, shocked to discover that the funeral industry routinely overcharged and defrauded its grief-stricken clientele. Cremation, instead of embalming and casketing, rapidly became more popular as the cheapest and most environmental funeral option; today, nearly a […]

By Julia Carlisle, Courier Mail
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 Kristin Edelhauser, Entrepreneur Daily
Halloween is just around the corner, which makes this entrepreneurial story that much more timely. In the past, we’ve featured entrepreneurs making a living off of funerals and burials. ABC’s Nightline  recently featured another entrepreneur making a living off of death.