Natural Burial Media Archives / Joe Sehee

“Green’ Burials Gain in Calif., Spurred by Cost and Ecology

  • October 2, 2004

By Bobby Caina Calvan, The Boston GlobeMILL VALLEY, Calif. - The organic movement has long been a way of life for California’s north coast, and now a Marin County cemetery is taking things further: a “green” cemetery that touts biodegradable caskets, the wilderness, and a back-to-nature approach to taking care of the […]

Marin cemetery: Ashes to ashes, dust to mulch

  • August 22, 2004

By Peter Fimrite, the San Francisco Chronicle
Marsha Goldberg has every intention of pushing up daisies when she dies. Daisies, wildflowers and a big redwood tree, too.
Goldberg is calling dibs on her choice of burial sites on a hilly, forested 32-acre stretch of land in Mill Valley, where she is making plans to become fertilizer at […]

New California cemetery will offer green burial options;

  • July 19, 2004

Trail Times
In what may be the ultimate expression of back to nature, three entrepreneurs are creating what they say is California’s first organic cemetery, hoping their ban on floral arrangements and formaldehyde will serve as a national model.