The Centre for Natural Burial

By EternalCoil.ca
A month ago I posted about how some cemeteries are going green with not using normal caskets or headstones. Here are some products that will help with passing away green. Right now they are made overseas (maybe Canada is too conservative??), but I’m sure a form of them will be here soon enough.

By Mark Harris, Grave Matters Blog
The Ramsey Creek Preserve, as enthusiasts of natural burial know, is the first — and until recently only — green cemetery in the United States.
On a trip down to Georgia last week, I stopped off in tiny Westminster, South Carolina, to tour its leafy grounds for first time since visiting […]

By Cliff White, Gazette
Peter McHugh rides his all-terrain vehicle across the 2.1 acres of 150-acre property he has recently devoted to creating Maine’s first green cemetery.
He points out prospective locations for burial sites – little spaces of cleared land marked only by brown fallen leaves amidst a forest of mostly bare trees. The throaty growl […]

By Anjel Craig
If there is one thing that anyone can be absolutely sure of, it’s that death will always be in business, and for the uninsured or unprepared, that can be a very expensive business. According to the National Funeral Director Association, the average cost of a funeral service is around $6,500, and that does […]

By Angus, Woodlands
“Green burials” of various sorts are increasingly popular - many people want to escape from what they perceive to be the conveyor-belt experience of some crematoria and the impersonality of cemeteries and churchyards.  Many people also find established funeral rituals are not right for them. More positively, woodland burials or green burials are […]

By Keagan Harsha - WCAX News
A group of Vermonters is taking the concept of being environmentally green to a whole a new level. They’re trying to build an eco-cemetery near Bristol. An eco-cemetery is an ecological alternative to being cremated or being buried in a traditional cemetery. The interred are buried in bio-degradable caskets or […]

Book Review By Jane Irwin
These big, handsome books from Firefly Books, each illustrated by well-known architectural photographer John de Visser, survey the extant buildings in which Canadian Christians have worshipped for the last 250 years, and some places where Canadians of all religious traditions (and none) have buried their dead for much longer. They are […]

LYNNPORT (AP) — A growing number of environmentalists are trying to go “green” even when it comes to death, planning for home funerals with handmade, biodegradable caskets.

By Joan Carreon, Herald News
With everything seemingly going green these days, why not burials? Green burials are a relatively new concept, at least for the Midwest. But that may be changing.

By Peter Holderness, Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University
Americans bury the equivalent of the Golden Gate Bridge every year in placing loved ones in cemeteries. Yes, that’s right, more than 90,000 tons of metal and 1.6 million tons of concrete — more asphalt and steel than in the San Francisco icon — is used in […]