The Centre for Natural Burial

By Graeme Stemp-Morlock, Green Living Magazine
It’s one of the biggest and most expensive decisions you will ever make in your life: your funeral. When a loved one passes away, many things are considered in a short time. Increasingly the environment is one of those things.
A worldwide movement for green burial is gaining momentum in Canada. […]

New Company Offers Eco-Friendly Caskets
By Gus Jarvis, The Watch
Thanks to Telluride-based EcoffinsUSA, eco-friendly caskets, coffins and urns are now available nationwide to funeral directors and funeral homes for an all-natural, green burial.
Ecoffins are hand woven from organic sustainable materials, available in six unique casket styles, four coffin patterns and six ashes urns. Standard sizes accommodate […]

By Kevin Miller,  Bangor Daily News
It was four days before Christmas — the winter solstice — when Arielle and Rob Bywater buried their infant son in a plain wooden coffin on a forested bluff overlooking the Penobscot River.

By Wendy Priesnitz, Natural Life Magazine
When a loved one dies, environmental issues may not be top of mind for grieving family and friends. However, the average funeral and burial are very un-green.
Embalming fluid is made with formaldehyde, which is a carcinogen. Most traditional caskets are made from formaldehyde-glued chipboard covered in a thin veneer. Handles […]

By Chad Lawhorn, Lawrence Journal
They carry your ornate metal casket to the graveside.
It is a beauty. The polished brass corners and detailed hardware give it the look of fine furniture meant to last generations. It fits well with the backdrop of a manicured cemetery, tightly mowed and peppered with intricately carved tombstones chiseled from a […]

By Kris Scheuer
Many of us are trying to reduce our environmental impact while here on earth, but how about in our final act when we leave this planet?
Decisions around our own mortality are not easy to contemplate. However, for the green conscious the idea of departing in an eco-friendly way is catching on.

By Jerri Stroud
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
The Texas Department of Insurance has placed National Prearranged Services Inc. of Clayton and two affiliated insurance companies in receivership, the department said Friday.

The inconvenient truth about our last rite of passage spurs a natural-burial movement
By Chris Smith, Checkerspot Magazine
Sometimes it’s the heart that is last to go, a knot of dense muscle still recognizable after the other organs have long since vaporized. Sometimes non-combustible material is found among the remains — prosthetic implants, dental filling sand unretrieved […]

By CINDY WOJDYLA , CAIN
JOLIET — Tezak funeral home is ready to embrace eco-friendly funerals.
No one has asked for a “green” funeral yet, but when they do, the 100-year-old business will be ready to accommodate them, said Amy Rodrigue, office manager and pre-arrangement counselor for the funeral home her great-grandfather started in 1908.

By MATT RILKOFF - Taranaki Daily News
Judy Martin wants a “natural” burial so she can rot right down without any fuss when she dies.
Unfortunately the closest place the New Plymouth woman can have a fast-rot burial is in Makara, near Wellington, a 4 1/2 drive for any family wishing to pay their respects.