The Centre for Natural Burial

LYNNPORT (AP) — A growing number of environmentalists are trying to go “green” even when it comes to death, planning for home funerals with handmade, biodegradable caskets.

By Peter Holderness, Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University
Americans bury the equivalent of the Golden Gate Bridge every year in placing loved ones in cemeteries. Yes, that’s right, more than 90,000 tons of metal and 1.6 million tons of concrete — more asphalt and steel than in the San Francisco icon — is used in […]

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, […]

Parmalee Thomas A.. American Funeral Director. 130(3)pp20
It’s a substance most embalmers work with just about every day. But it has managed to cause a storm of controversy in the European Union that has gone largely unnoticed in the United States.

Plan cemetery to buy, protect N.H. ranchland
By Deborah Baker, Associated Press
GALISTEO BASIN PRESERVE, N.M. — Tromping across a small, grassy meadow ringed by piñon and juniper trees and dotted with cactuses and clumps of bright-yellow flowers, Joe Sehee suddenly came to a stop. “That’s definitely a burial area,” he said, peering at the gently sloped, […]

By: Kelli B. Kavanaugh, metromode
Driving north from the skyscrapers and stadiums of downtown Detroit to Upland Hills Farm, just north of Rochester in Addison Township, is a study in quick transitions: from urban core to suburban sprawl to rolling pastures and forests in just 45 minutes.

It’s time for land trusts to enter the land of the dead.
by Stephen F. Christy, Jr.
Land Trust Alliance Exchange
It’s time for land trusts to enter the land of the dead. We’re already doing it. Think about our daily work.  Our newsletters overflow with successful land preservations, the enjoyment so many folks are having on these […]

By Camille Adair’s “a lifelong practice”
April 18th, 2007
Today Camille is joined by Joe Sehee, executive director of the “Green Burial Council” and Cynthia Jones. Please visit the Green Burial Council for more information. “One’s death should mean something.” - Edward Abbey Download Green Burial Joe Sehee is executive director of the Green Burial Council, a […]

By Camille Adair, A Lifelong Practice (Blog)
“One’s death should mean something.”
- Edward Abbey
Joe Sehee is executive director of the Green Burial Council, a nonprofit organization he founded to encourage sustainability in the death care industry and to use the burial process as a means of facilitating ecological restoration and landscape level conservation.

Green burial lets humans feed the daisies, not just push them up
By Jaye Christensen, Common Ground
Last year 22,500 cemeteries across the United States buried 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, 104,272 tons of steel, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze, 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods and 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete.