The Centre for Natural Burial

Amy Wolf, 27 News
Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence looks like many burial sites. But starting in January, the northwestern edge will be transformed into a green cemetery. “From what we understand, we will be the first public natural burial area in the united states,” said Ernie Shaw, Interim Director of the Lawrence Parks and Recreation […]

By Jessica Anderson, IDSnews.com
Funeral director Nathan Butler expects to finalize paperwork this October on the new Evergreen Forest Cemetery, which won’t have matching headstones in neat, evenly spaced rows. Rather, he pictures “a forest preserve.”
“A green cemetery isn’t going to look like a park,” said the Kelley School of Business alumnus.

By Kristen Banker, Modern Eco-Homes
I was contacted this past Sunday by an old acquaintance. She wanted to let me know that her Grandmother had passed. Knowing that I had a strong liking towards Nonna, (as we Italians call the Grandma’s), I appreciated being informed. It’s never easy loosing someone, even when you know they lived […]

BY EMILIA ASKARI, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
For generations, metro Detroit families have visited Addison Township’s Upland Hills Farm for hayrides, Christmas trees and harvest festivals. Soon, some may be visiting the farm for graveside memorial services.

WXYZ action News
People who want to want to take their environmental values to the grave could get their wish under a proposal for a 230-acre green burial ground in Oakland County.
The burials would be minus vaults, expensive coffins and embalming.

Tracy Davis, The Ann Arbor News
It makes sense that a person with environmental sensibilities would want their last wishes to reflect a green-conscious lifestyle.
And a growing awareness of the environmental impacts of conventional end-of-life rituals has created the beginnings of a movement that could change traditional burial and funeral practices.
Green, or natural, burial does not […]

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada’s cemetery directors are learning this week about ways to catch up with a British trend that offers green burials for environmentally-conscious customers.

By TARINA WHITE, SUN MEDIA
Forget about striving to live greener, it’s time to focus on dying greener.
That was the topic yesterday at the Western Canadian Cemetery Association’s annual convention in Calgary.

City commissioners will consider moving forward with plans to establish a Natural Burial Cemetery area at the northwestern edge of Oak Hill Cemetery. Commissioners will receive information from the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, which wants permission to establish the section and begin selling lots Jan 1. The area would not be mowed. Only native […]

Customers can choose an eco-exit
DON MANLEY
dmanley@news-press.com
In a case of what’s old is new, a “green” approach is now an option for patrons at one Fort Myers funeral home.
Fort Myers Memorial Gardens on Colonial Boulevard has begun offering green funerals - where bodies are buried in biodegradable wooden or wicker caskets without any embalming fluids.