The Centre for Natural Burial

Cemeteries in Bloomington, Lafayette planned.
From The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Environment-friendly burial services are being offered across the country and are drawing attention from some Indiana funeral planners.
Green burial services can involve cardboard caskets and cemeteries that look like wooded nature preserves. At least two green cemeteries are being planned in Indiana - one near Bloomington […]

Home funerals, memorial reefs, natural cemeteries and the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Humboldt
By Bob Doran, North Coast Journal
What happens after you’re dead? The exact nature of the afterlife (if there is one) is debatable and far from certain. What is certain is that we leave behind a body, a mass of flesh and bone that […]

By Funeral Gurus
Green Burial Council’s Joe Sehee explains how the Council is reaching out the funeral industry. Green funerals & green burials present another option for funeral homes.

By Cheryl Corley, NPR
Ginny Boll loves life. The 78-year-old former nun operates a dog-grooming business in Wisconsin in a small shed near her home on her woodland property. When she dies, Boll says she wants her friends to hold a party to celebrate her life and then to bury her simply.
She’s not interested in being […]

BY MARYLYNNE PITZ, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
There are green buildings, green cars, even green weddings. Now comes one of the latest, and ultimately last moves, environmentally conscious consumers can make - green burials.

Toledo Blade
BABY Boomers were the first generation to wholeheartedly embrace the environmental movement, and now they are bent on taking their zeal to save the planet all the way, literally, to the grave.

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 Joey Bunch, The Denver Post
Denver — Some people are getting a chance to stand up for the environment, even when they’re 6 feet under. The national Green Burial Council advocates a plan that allows people to be buried naturally — no embalming, no casket, no steel vault, nothing that can’t return to dust — […]

By Joe Sehee, PERC (Property and Environment Research Center)
Winter 2007
Volume 25 | Number 4
Green burial may sound like another trend of the eco-chic, but it’s actually the way most of humanity has cared for its dead for thousands of years. The idea calls for returning to the earth without the use of non-biodegradable toxins or […]

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, […]