The Centre for Natural Burial

By The Carbon Offset Review
For those that spend their lives respecting the Earth through recycling, carpooling, conserving energy, etc., traditional burials just don’t make sense. Everything about a traditional burial seems unnatural. Imagine having one’s body pumped full of chemicals to stop the natural process of decomposition when they’ve spent their entire life eating organic, […]

PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
LOCAL AUTHORITIES throughout the State should make more burial spaces available for Muslims as, currently, there is just one graveyard in the Republic where they can be buried, a spokesman for the community in Ireland has said.
Ali Selim, secretary of the Irish Council of Imams and based at the Islamic Cultural […]

By GreenMuze
Mainstream funerals have significant impact on the environment, from the overuse of endangered woods, the toxic finishes on the coffins, the cement vault, embalming chemicals, chemically treated lawns, and pesticide-covered flowers. The Natural Burial Cemetery explains that each year US cemeteries bury an estimated 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, 90,272 tons of steel (caskets), […]

By Adriel Bettelheim, CQ Staff
If the biodegradable-coffin business ever takes off, its executives can point to this year’s Democratic National Convention as their breakout moment.
The convention organizers’ goal of making the gathering the greenest political hobnob in history has unleashed a wave of pitches and promotions surrounding organic foods, renewable fuels, carbon offsets and consumer […]

Backers of run-down cemetery believe natural burials may reap income
By Tom McGhee, The Denver Post
The growing popularity of environmentally sensitive burials could pump life into Denver’s run-down Riverside Cemetery and help other Colorado graveyards struggling with rising costs.

By Daniel Bush, The Brooklyn Paper
It’s the meanest, cleanest, eco-friendliest gathering ever known to man.
And — believe it or not — I’m not talking about the Democratic National Convention.
On Sunday, when Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (D–Denver) announced this year’s DMC will be “the greenest convention in the history of conventions,” he was cheered by a […]

By Adriel Bettelheim, CQ Staff
If the biodegradable-coffin business ever takes off, its executives can point to this year’s Democratic National Convention as their breakout moment.
The convention organizers’ goal of making the gathering the greenest political hobnob in history has unleashed a wave of pitches and promotions surrounding organic foods, renewable fuels, carbon offsets and consumer […]

Cemeteries in Bloomington, Lafayette planned.
From The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Environment-friendly burial services are being offered across the country and are drawing attention from some Indiana funeral planners.
Green burial services can involve cardboard caskets and cemeteries that look like wooded nature preserves. At least two green cemeteries are being planned in Indiana - one near Bloomington […]

Northampton Chron & Echo
Families in Northamptonshire are turning their backs on traditional funerals in favour of giving their deceased loved ones a greener send-off.
Instead of paying for horse-drawn hearses and engraved gravestones, families are choosing more environmentally-friendly plots as the final resting place for relatives.

By PAM ZUBECK, THE GAZETTE
How would you like to spend eternity?
In a silk-lined casket under dew-laden bluegrass and granite stones, borders and benches? That’ll be up to $200,000, please, depending on the size of your family.
Or in an egg-crate box or “ecopod,” biodegrading beneath native grasses and wildflowers? A “green burial” would cost significantly less […]