The Centre for Natural Burial

By Ken Hashizume, Bayshore Broadcasting Corp
Giving people the option of going au naturel when it comes to being laid to rest.
Mike Salisbury — President and Founder of the Natural Burial Co-Operative — came to Arran-Elderslie Council yesterday and presented a plan to set up Canada’s first natural burial ground along a piece of property on […]

Could be country’s first cemetery where bodies decompose naturally and a tree is planted overtop instead of a headstone
By SCOTT DUNN, The Sun Times
Paisley could be the location of Canada’s first natural burial cemetery.
Going “natural” dispenses with expensive caskets and there’s no embalming. It’s a burial with a simpler casket or shroud with an added […]

No embalming, no headstones, no grave liners - just land that eventually looks like a forest meadow
SHANNON MONEO, Special to The Globe and Mail
VICTORIA — For Robert MacRae, the phrase “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” is taking on new life now that green burials will be possible not far from his Victoria home.
This fall, […]

How a simple burial can leave a lasting legacy
by Dana Logan, Boulder Weekly
Nearly every aspect of our lives impacts the environment. Death, unfortunately, is no exception. And just as more and more people are considering how the choices they make in life can affect the health of the planet, so, too, are more people searching […]

Caskets of wicker and recycled paper in fields of flowers: finally, eco-burial comes to Canada
BARBARA RIGHTON, Macleans Magazine
It sits on a warehouse shelf in Burnaby, B.C., an anomaly among the burnished hardwoods. Six feet long and made of green wicker, it is Gordon Robchan’s lone attempt to sell something other than the traditional caskets he […]

Expenses go towards preserving natural spaces set aside as burial preserves
The Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - The natural burial movement is to the established funeral industry as the hospice movement is to hospital palliative care of the dying. t is evolving as part of a holistic philosophy adhered to by people who find society’s institutions just don’t […]

The buzz grows around environmentally friendly choices
Johanna Weidner, Waterloo Record
Aspen Heisey wants her body to return to the earth, to decay naturally in a natural setting. Her burial would ideally be in a biodegradable casket, with no embalming fluid, and in a wooded area where it’s enjoyable to spend time.
Above all, she wants her death […]

By Theresa Lalonde, CBC Radio, “Sounds Like Canada”
Canada has an active green burial movement. Members have been pushing for eco-friendly funerals for years. And beginning next year, the first official green burial sites will open.

By Matt Hryciw, The Toronto Observer
In death, environmentally conscious Ontarians will soon have the chance to extend their green lifestyles beyond the grave. Woodlawn Memorial Park in Guelph, Ont., hopes to open a swath of environmentally friendly final resting places late next year.
The cemetery is currently in the planning stages of a ‘green’ expansion of […]

By EternalCoil.ca
A month ago I posted about how some cemeteries are going green with not using normal caskets or headstones. Here are some products that will help with passing away green. Right now they are made overseas (maybe Canada is too conservative??), but I’m sure a form of them will be here soon enough.