The Centre for Natural Burial

The Canadian Press
TORONTO — A burgeoning industry catering to the desire to be green - even in death - will soon offer mourners a new environmentally friendly option to bury their loved ones in British Columbia and is also working toward setting up shop in a small southern Ontario community.
Canadians once looked to cremation as […]

By Maureen, Mind Sorbet Blog
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By MARY GOLEM, Sun Times
An official plan amendment and rezoning would be required before plans for Canada’s first natural burial site can proceed.
Mike Salisbury, president of the Natural Burial Co-operative, appeared before Arran-Elderslie council Monday to outline the co-op’s plans for a 96-acre parcel of land on Bruce Road 11 adjacent to Paisley.

By Bal Brach ,  Canwest News Service
A small rural community an hour and a half northwest of Toronto soon could be home to a natural burial cemetery - where people are laid to rest without embalming, a casket or a headstone.
“We’re using native plant material as part of the memorial to create a protected green […]

TeledyN Blog
What a remarkable innovation, astoundingly high-degree green-tech, it’s simple, natural, it’s enviro-friendly and economical for the bereaved, and makes for a right nice parkland too. And gee, it only took us a hundred years to figure it out: People, it turns out, are bio-degradeable …
“The key difference with natural burial is using the trees […]

By Ken Hashizume, Bayshore Broadcasting Corp
Giving people the option of going au naturel when it comes to being laid to rest.
Mike Salisbury — President and Founder of the Natural Burial Co-Operative — came to Arran-Elderslie Council yesterday and presented a plan to set up Canada’s first natural burial ground along a piece of property on […]

Could be country’s first cemetery where bodies decompose naturally and a tree is planted overtop instead of a headstone
By SCOTT DUNN, The Sun Times
Paisley could be the location of Canada’s first natural burial cemetery.
Going “natural” dispenses with expensive caskets and there’s no embalming. It’s a burial with a simpler casket or shroud with an added […]

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 Theresa Lalonde, CBC Radio, “Sounds Like Canada”
Canada has an active green burial movement. Members have been pushing for eco-friendly funerals for years. And beginning next year, the first official green burial sites will open.

BY ALISON RAMSEY, Readers Digest Magazine
There are currently no designated natural burial cemeteries in Canada where everything put into the earth is decomposable (such as all-wood caskets), nothing contaminates the soil (no embalming fluids are used) and the ground is not groomed or laden with pesticides and herbicides. Yet you can still take steps to […]