The Centre for Natural Burial

BY MARYLYNNE PITZ, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
There are green buildings, green cars, even green weddings. Now comes one of the latest, and ultimately last moves, environmentally conscious consumers can make - green burials.

By Linda S. Morris, The Telegraph
The proposal for a natural or “green” cemetery in Bibb County has some nearby residents upset and the cemetery owners attempting to explain the concept. The cemetery is planned on 25 acres at 4600 Davis Road in Bibb County near the Twiggs County line.

By Marketplace
An eco-friendly coffin producer in the U.K. has given some funeral advocates sticker shock over its expensive biodegradable caskets. And April Dembosky reports environmental advocates also question the company’s commitment to green.

By nzherald
South Australia’s largest cemetery will offer carbon-neutral cremations and burials as part of plans to offset the carbon emissions of its operations. Centennial Park in Adelaide says its carbon offset scheme is believed to be a first for an Australian cemetery and follows a study into the environmental impacts of cremations and burials.

Attention Spam
In the first season of HBO’s historically accurate western Deadwood, Al Swearengen’s minion, E.B. Farnsworth confesses his betrayal and begs him not to feed him to the pigs ? just in case there really is resurrection of the body upon Christ’s return. Given the paucity of data regarding the afterlife, what happens to us […]

Walking the Berkshires, Blog
When you “shuffle off this mortal coil, turn your body back to soil” as Loudin Wainwright III acidly puts it in the lyrics to “Suicide Song”, will you still have a carbon footprint?  How green is your cemetery?   The Funeral Consumers Alliance of Eastern Massachusetts is a strong believer in going out […]

By Times & Star
OBJECTORS packed Lorton’s Yew Tree Hall on Tuesday as the planning inquiry into a controversial plan for a woodland burial site in the valley got underway.
Planning inspector Wenda Fabian conducted the inquiry into plans by Essex Firm Woodland Burial Services Ltd to create more than 3,000 burial plots on a site near […]

By Sheena Hastings, Yorkshire post
‘I want to look my best, with my hair done nicely, with a fringe, and some lipstick.’
PAM Jackson is hale and hearty. Like many 80-year-olds, she takes a few pills, but she has no particular reason to suppose she will slip this mortal coil in the very near future. All the […]

By Sara Hawthorn, The Press
I’VE NEVER wanted to help the daisies grow when I’m dead and gone. I’d rather be stuck on a pyre and have flaming arrows shot at me. It’s not an eco-friendly option - the plumes of smoke would probably negate all those years spent doing hardcore recycling.
However, those who do wish […]