The Centre for Natural Burial

Growing movement wants to take ecology sensitivity into the graveyard
One aspect of the green burial movement advocates being buried without chemicals in a biodegradable casket in the forest.
By LASHA MORNINGSTAR, CR News Editor Edmonton
As green ethics splash over more and more aspects of our lives, many Canadians want their last footprint on earth to be […]

Eco-Friendly Burials Help Rebuild East Coast Reefs
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, The Associated Press
If you want to help the Chesapeake Bay in the afterlife, or forever be part of the memories from Baltimore’s historic Memorial Stadium, a Georgia company has a burial option you may want to consider.
Eternal Reefs Inc., based in Decatur, Ga., mixes cremated remains […]

By KEITH J. O’CONNOR, The Republican
Pease and Gay Funeral Home in Northampton offers a “green” burial as one of its many package options. And Jim Gay would love to be able to deliver on that option. There’s only one problem.
“Nobody’s been able to utilize it yet … it’s getting a cemetery to accommodate it,” Gay […]

A natural burial site has been chosen for Adelaide
A parcel of bushland at Enfield Memorial Park cemetery in Adelaide is to be turned into what is described as an environmentally-friendly grave site.

By AAP
South Australia has joined NSW, Victoria and Tasmania in offering a site for natural burials.

By Mark Harris, Vegetarian Times
On a bright, spring morning, dozens of mourners gather at Ramsey Creek Preserve’s natural cemetery to say good-bye to Chris Nichols. For nearly eight months the 28-year-old stonemason and “gentle, New Age hippie,” as his mother calls him, had battled aggressive colon cancer and, two days earlier, had passed away quietly […]

By KAYLA BUNGE, GazetteExtra
Dr. Kathryn Brown walks her dog Dakota through a labyrinth on her farm that she would like to turn into a green cemetery where she can someday be buried. Canary yellow mushrooms dot the grass underfoot, sprouting amid the moisture of a late-September morning. Spindly box elder trees grow between towering pines, […]

By JenniferBrinkmann
If you’re environmentally friendly, your concern for the planet doesn’t have to end at your death. Although most people don’t enjoy discussing their own funeral plans, doing so will make sure that your beliefs and decisions will be carried out properly. Your funeral will be one of the most expensive personal decisions you will […]

By Alexandra Garry
Drastic change in the seemingly unchanging business of burial may seem unlikely. Indeed, much has remained the same since the development of embalmment following the Civil War. But now, the funeral industry appears to be on the cusp of a shift in its operation - and Lawrence has become part of the trend.

Three Welsh burial sites won top prizes at the 2008 Cemetery of the Year Awards last night. Thornhill Cemetery and Crematorium in Cardiff won the National Asociation of Memorial Masons’ freedom of choice award, The pet cemetery at Brynford, Holywell, won an honourable mention in pet sites and Usk Castle Chase Natural Burial Ground, Monmouth, […]