The Centre for Natural Burial

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

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 […]

By MATT SEDENSKY
Beyond the convention center filled with glistening hearses, beyond the rows of perfectly arranged caskets and bottles of embalming fluid, funeral directors await perhaps their greatest windfall ever: The death of the baby boom generation.
For thousands of professionals gathered here at the National Funeral Directors Association convention, the current economic slump does nothing […]

By Kristen Banker, Modern Eco-Homes
I was contacted this past Sunday by an old acquaintance. She wanted to let me know that her Grandmother had passed. Knowing that I had a strong liking towards Nonna, (as we Italians call the Grandma’s), I appreciated being informed. It’s never easy loosing someone, even when you know they lived […]

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 […]

By Adriel Bettelheim, CQ Staff
If the biodegradable-coffin business ever takes off, its executives can point to this year’s Democratic National Convention as their breakout moment.
The convention organizers’ goal of making the gathering the greenest political hobnob in history has unleashed a wave of pitches and promotions surrounding organic foods, renewable fuels, carbon offsets and consumer […]

By Daniel Bush, The Brooklyn Paper
It’s the meanest, cleanest, eco-friendliest gathering ever known to man.
And — believe it or not — I’m not talking about the Democratic National Convention.
On Sunday, when Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (D–Denver) announced this year’s DMC will be “the greenest convention in the history of conventions,” he was cheered by a […]

By Adriel Bettelheim, CQ Staff
If the biodegradable-coffin business ever takes off, its executives can point to this year’s Democratic National Convention as their breakout moment.
The convention organizers’ goal of making the gathering the greenest political hobnob in history has unleashed a wave of pitches and promotions surrounding organic foods, renewable fuels, carbon offsets and consumer […]

By 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.