The Centre for Natural Burial

By Cat Andersen, Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - As people decide to go green in their lives, it only follows that they might want to keep the environment in mind when the time comes to shuffle off this mortal coil. The funeral industry is getting on board with new ideas for eco-friendly memorials.

Idea of being laid to rest in natural burial cemetery very appealing
By Anne Finlay-Stewart, Sun Times
When I read about the proposal for a natural burial cemetery near Paisley I knew that the time had come to write the column I’d been thinking about all winter. Now that the crocus and forsythia buds are out, life […]

The Canadian Press
TORONTO — A burgeoning industry catering to the desire to be green - even in death - will soon offer mourners a new environmentally friendly option to bury their loved ones in British Columbia and is also working toward setting up shop in a small southern Ontario community.
Canadians once looked to cremation as […]

Cardboard is the latest thing in caskets Urns can be made of compressed cotton or rice
By DARRON KLOSTER, Canwest News Service
People can now reduce their environmental footprint even after they’ve stopped walking the Earth.  Victoria funeral parlour is promoting cardboard caskets covered in wood veneer and urns made of compressed cotton, rice and other biodegradable […]

A woodland burial site is being planned as an extension to Penwortham Cemetery because of a lack of room to bury the dead. But the £30,000 bid by Penwortham Town Council has been held up once again by the Great Crested Newt. The newt – already the scourge of many new developments in and around […]

Gizmodo
When you die, instead of having your grave marked by granite, you can now peg it to something even more immutable: latitude and longitude. A new eco-friendly forest graveyard promises a new kind of service, according to the Sydney Morning Herald:

By Simon Webster, The Sun-Herald
Relatives and friends will require a satellite navigation device to find graves of loved ones in NSW’s first eco-burial site. The deceased will be buried in biodegradable coffins between gum trees in a protected koala sanctuary.
Reflecting a worldwide trend towards environmentally friendly burials, the site, on bushland attached to Lismore Memorial […]

By REGAN McTARSNEY
LONDON (AP) - It’s no longer enough to live a greener life—now people are being encouraged to be environmentally friendly when they leave the Earth too. Cardboard coffins, clothes sewn from natural fibers, a burial plot in a natural setting. Green funerals attempt to be eco-friendly at every stage.

State to get its first natural graveyard
Associated Press
When Dave Drapac tells people about his plans for a green graveyard, where they can be buried without chemicals or a coffin, many say the idea is “cool.”
“I love the idea that I can be composted” is another response, said Drapac, president of the Trust for Natural Legacies, […]

Ecoffins are designed to “biodegrade along with the body,” says Joanna Passarelli.
By The Denver Post
The truly dedicated environmentalist can celebrate Earth Day eternally in an Ecoffin, a sustainably-designed biodegradable casket that two Telluride women are marketing.
First introduced in the United Kingdom, the Ecoffins are made of bamboo, pandanus (a sea grass alternative), willow crowns or […]