The Centre for Natural Burial

By, Are We Green Yet? (Blog)
The latest eco-friendly trend, that can be your last environmentally friendly act before leaving this world, has been labeled green burial.
This new burial process shuns the traditional burial ritual which environmentalist believe is exacting a huge toll on the environment. Embalming injects corpses with formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, that releases […]

Natural burial methods growing in popularity
By JAY LEVIN, The Pueblo Chieftain
HACKENSACK, N.J. - Genevieve Maiberger is excited about her burial.
When the time arrives, the retired schoolteacher from Teaneck, N.J., will be placed in a linen shroud and planted in the earth of a hilltop in a lovely meadow, along with the ashes of her husband, […]

No embalming, no metal caskets, no vaults and, for some, a contribution to land conservation
By Kirsten Scharnbergm, Chicago Tribune
When Billy Campbell’s father died a number of years ago, the family did what was expected at the time: Bury him in a historic cemetery behind the family’s Methodist church.
The setting was lovely and bucolic, but Campbell, […]

By Eileen,  EcoSpace
When animals and plants die, they decompose and become nutrients for new forms of life. Why should we deny ourselves of Mother Earth’s beautiful cycle?  Modern cemeteries separate the deceased from natural cycles by embalming them in toxic chemicals, boxing them in steel caskets and concrete burial vaults, and drenching the funeral grounds […]

Practice Protects the Environment and Costs Less
By Vonda Sines, AC
The expression “sleeps with the fishes” has taken on a new meaning.
An emerging new movement in this country for simpler and cheaper burials that are also more environmentally friendly has resulted in new and more creative final resting places. One example, according to an article by […]

The Greening of American Cemeteries
by Kathleen Everett
It was raining when we got there. Correction: teeming. This was not the gentle day we awakened to, my intrepid companion and I, but we’d driven up from the Hudson Valley to visit Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve in Newfield, N.Y. and we were undeterred. As the hydro-apocalypse moved in, […]

Final Resting Spots Honor Dead, Earth
By Elizabeth Birge, Washington Post - Religion News Service
In life, Lou Tafuri loved to fish in the waters off the New Jersey coast. In death, he sleeps with the fishes. His family couldn’t be happier. Tafuri, who died in 2005, was cremated after donating his body to science. Shortly before […]

By Alexa Weigel-Krause, The Citizen
Cemeteries have historically been tarnished by associations with superstition, horror films and an eerie sense of religious sanctity. They are cold, filled with sorrow and an unsettling smell of fresh earth. Or must they be?

Green burials ensure folks live an eco lifestyle—even in the afterlife.
By Alison Sherbach, Plenty Magazine
Four miles off the highway, up a hill, and at the end of a tree-lined gravel road in the quiet town of Newfield, NY sits a pistachio-colored cottage. The small, solar-powered building resides in a pleasant meadow, and nearby are nine […]

By Philip Proefrock, Green Options
The move towards a greener lifestyle extends even to the end of life. Choices for the final resting place include some relatively new approaches. Many of these developments seem to be coming out of the United Kingdom and from Europe, though they are being adopted in other countries, as well.