The Centre for Natural Burial

By Nick Bramhill in the Irish Examiner
THE man behind Ireland’s first natural cemetery is planning to open up to eight more burial grounds across the country.
Colin McAteer’s Green Graveyard Company has already taken bookings for 120 plots and held its first ever green burial since its eco-friendly cemetery in Killane, Co Wexford, opened earlier last […]

By Alexandra Waite, The Advocate
When pondering death and plans for one’s body after it is departed, most people feel they are only left with the options of traditional burial or cremation.
In contrast with this common belief, new research is showing that such burials and even cremation are becoming increasingly harmful to the environment and more […]

by Hazel Saunderson,
Even though Halloween is over, here is one super sustainable design solution that is bound to keep the green spirits happy for the rest of the year. Direct from Denmark, Bendt Stov recently launched DanCof, an innovative range of eco-coffins and urns that have been molded from biodegradable, long fiber recycled paper (PULP). […]

JOYCE EDLEFSEN jedlefsen@uvsj.com
ST. ANTHONY - Even death can’t escape change. In most cases, death means burial in a conventional cemetery after conventional embalmment and a funeral. Cremation is also an alternative. A new trend is evolving in the death business - green burial.
Green burial can mean internment in a place away from the usual cemetery, […]

SAMARA KALK DERBY | skalk@madison.com | 608-252-6439 |
BARNEVELD — On a warm, sunny Halloween day, a group of 20 people drove up a rural road at Circle Sanctuary, a nature-based pagan church and ecological preserve here, to spread and inter the ashes of one of their own.
Bruce Parsons, of Milwaukee, who identified as a Wiccan […]

by Brian Merchant
Green burials have been a growing trend in the United States for some time now — and the term itself has come to encompass very different kinds of natural burials. But it’s still surprising just how fast they’ve grown. An AP story out today reveals that the Green Burial Council “now counts more […]

by Manuel Valdes,
Steve Sall moved forward on uneven, rocky terrain in his motorized wheelchair and came to a stop at the edge of a sweeping vista of ponderosa pines and bright pockets of yellow wildflowers.
Sall wanted to see the canyon he used to hike before Lou Gehrig’s disease left him near death. Three months later, […]

By Shannon Proudfoot, Postmedia News
From recycled newspaper coffins that resemble space-age mummies to sea-salt urns that dissolve in hours if floated out to sea, green burial options will be among the most innovative products on the trade-show floor at the National Funeral Directors Association convention in New Orleans this week.
“It allows families to do something […]

Pam Frampton, The Telegram
“Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom — all, which makes death a hideous show.”
— Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), English poet and social critic
Let’s get this straight: there’s nothing funny about death. But I think we can all agree that’s it’s […]

Andover Advertiser,Hampshire Business
IT does what it says on the can and that’s why it was chosen as one of the winners in this year’s Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sustainable Business Awards.
East Meon’s Sustainability Centre was named as Small Business of the Year, a category sponsored by Business Link, when the awards were presented by […]