The Centre for Natural Burial

BY DON MANLEY • dmanley@news-press.com • September 9, 2008
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 biodegradeable wooden or wicker caskets without […]

A rising number of British Columbians are bequeathing property to organizations who promise to protect the areas forever
By Mark Hume, The Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER — As he makes his way through the tangled forest that surrounds his home in Coquitlam, Steve Vida points out where a black bear named the Young Punk broke down a […]

“Your community is in danger!” translates into “We’re afraid of losing money!”
By Michael d’Estries in Composting, Green Living, Recycling
You know you’ve been sniffing a little too much embalming fluid when you argue that natural burials are bad for the planet. And yet, that’s just what a funeral director from New Zealand did while participating in […]

By Rabbi Yerachmiel D. Fried, Texas Jewish Post
Dear Rabbi,
A company called Natural Burial of Portland, Ore., is selling “a variety of eco-friendly, biodegradable burial products including Ecopod, a kayak-shaped coffin made out of recycled newspapers,” according to the newspaper story. They will also offer “fair-trade bamboo caskets lined w/bleached cotton” and “more traditional-looking handcrafted coffins […]

Funeral options that honor your loved one–and the planet
Scientific American Magazine
“I’ve heard that increasing eco-awareness around the world has now extended itself to the afterlife, whereby burials can even be “green.” Is that true?” - Mary Lewis, Duxbury, MA
Modern western-world burial practices are arguably absurd, all things considered: We pack our dearly departed with synthetic […]

A proposed new eco burial area with trees planted in commemoration of loved ones will be landscaped with the help of caring young students from Te Puru School.
The school children are assisting Thames-Coromandel District Council with a planting session at Totara Cemetery next Thursday September 11 as part of Conservation Week.