The Centre for Natural Burial

By Michael McKinney, Fiona Brady and Hilary Dixson, Earthly Matters
Most people continue to harm the environment even after they die. Perhaps because death is a terminal event, or perhaps because we prefer not to think about death at all, our impact on the environment after death is one of the least appreciated topics in environmental […]

By Sami Grover, Treehugger
What’s the Big Deal?
Worldwide, more than 50,000,000 people pass away each year. Traditional burial and cremation practices can have significant negative environmental impact, but green funerals and eco-burials are one way to lessen the impact. While death can be a difficult subject, keeping ethical beliefs and environmental convictions in mind while tending […]

By Marc Hansen, Hansen Register columnist
While Iowans still prefer burial plots to cremation urns, cremation seems to be gaining ground. So to speak.

St Magaret’s Church, at Thorpe Market, near Cromer, is a finalist in a national search to find the best village church which has adapted to serve the wider needs of the community.
By RICHARD BATSON, EDP24
A decade ago the quaint flint-faced country church was in danger of closure - but its revival at the heart of […]

By Heidi Glenn, NPR
When Six Feet Under character Nate Fisher was laid to rest in the HBO series, his unconventional funeral gave many viewers their first glimpse of eco-friendly “green burials.” A scene in the series shows several characters carrying Fisher’s shrouded body — sans casket — to a gravesite in the woods.
Since then, the […]

By Cheryl Corley, NPR
Ginny Boll loves life. The 78-year-old former nun operates a dog-grooming business in Wisconsin in a small shed near her home on her woodland property. When she dies, Boll says she wants her friends to hold a party to celebrate her life and then to bury her simply.
She’s not interested in being […]

Peaceful Islands of Biodiversity
By Mark Wexler, National Wildlife Federation
Cemeteries often provide ideal habitat for wildlife, particularly in urban areas; some also serve as vital links to the nation’s ecological past
IN THE SHADOW of Mt. Tamalpais, more than 150 graves lie scattered across a windswept hillside in Marin County, California. Though the hill makes up a […]

Food for Design Blog
The most earthly looking eco-burial container that we’ve found is the Capsula Mundi, created by a pair of Italian designers who wanted to remove the taboo from the burial process and give it a new conception.

By Gail Robinson, The Star
ECO-minded folk who want to be environmentally-friendly even after death will soon be able to have a green burial in Barnsley. The scheme, which should be launched this summer, will see part of Barnsley Cemetery used for the new approach, which Coun Roy Miller, Cabinet spokesman for Environmental Services, says will […]

By Debt Prison Blog
Doesn’t $8,000 for the cheapest funeral in one of the poorest states in the Union seem a little excessive?  That’s what I thought.  Just this past week a distant cousin passed away quite unexpectedly.  He had stopped making payments on his burial policy about six months earlier, so the immediate family had […]