The Centre for Natural Burial

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Envision a green cemetery in the middle of a restored tallgrass prairie, with native flowers blooming in the spring alongside lush native grasses.  Could you imagine a more beautiful way to spend eternity while helping to protect and restore an endangered ecosystem and provide habitat for grassland birds, butterflies, and other prairie wildlife?

Going to the green beyond » Mortuary offers alternative funeral
By Stephen Hunt, The Salt Lake Tribune
Imagine you or your loved one buried simply, in a plain pine box without the use of toxic embalming fluid and laid to rest in a place in harmony with the native landscape.
Memorial Cemeteries and Mortuaries — the first funeral […]

By Jim Nicolow, The Greenwash Brigade
Did you ever hear that joke — that the quickest way to significantly reduce your environmental footprint is to die?
However, while death is a natural part of ecosystems, with dead organisms consumed by other organisms (waste equals food), dead humans are typically embalmed with a toxic cocktail of chemicals and […]

By April Dembosky, Marketplace.
An eco-friendly coffin producer in the U.K. has given some funeral advocates sticker shock over its expensive biodegradable caskets. And April Dembosky reports environmental advocates also question the company’s commitment to green

By: Mike Webster, WCSH
LIMINGTON (NEWS CENTER) — With all the talk about global warming, going green has become a way of life for many of us. Now, people in Maine can even go “out” green — and spend eternity in a natural resting place.
Peter McHugh has worked on his 147 acre tree farm for a […]

By GreenMuze Staff
Canada now has its first green urban burial plot area in the entire country. The new green burial space is located at the Royal Oak Burial Park on Vancouver Island, in western Canada. The memorial park has allocated about one-eighth of an acre for green burials. Green burials have long been popular in […]

By Associated Press
ST. CLOUD, Minn. - Tradition and laws have kept “green” burials from becoming widespread in Minnesota, but funeral directors say more people are inquiring about them.
“There are people talking about it and people mentioning it,” said Mark Benson, funeral director at Benson Funeral Home in St. Cloud. “They’ve seen the stories. They’re talking […]

Going Out Green Blogspot
Of all the considerations when planning a natural burial, picking an earth-friendly coffin is one I thought would be a cinch.
I had in mind a one of those six-sided, wooded “toe-pinchers” made popular in old western gunslinger movies. No varnish. No glue. Maybe some dovetail joints or some dowels instead of nails […]

Plans have been submitted to build the first green burial ground in North Shropshire.
If approved, the site at Alkington Grange, near Whitchurch, would be used for around 10 burials a year using methods and items such as coffins and casks which are non-polluting and biodegradable.

Audio Transcript by Ian Townsend, ABC
There’s a boom in funerals around the corner as the Boomers face mortality, but neither cemeteries nor crematoria are eco-friendly. The business of burials is beginning to adapt, and so are their future customers.