The Centre for Natural Burial

By Sami Grover, Treehugger
What’s the Big Deal?
Worldwide, more than 50,000,000 people pass away each year. Traditional burial and cremation practices can have significant negative environmental impact, but green funerals and eco-burials are one way to lessen the impact. While death can be a difficult subject, keeping ethical beliefs and environmental convictions in mind while tending […]

Food for Design Blog
The most earthly looking eco-burial container that we’ve found is the Capsula Mundi, created by a pair of Italian designers who wanted to remove the taboo from the burial process and give it a new conception.

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.

By Laura Forbes, Fox 21
When our loved ones die, it often goes without saying that there will be a traditional funeral, in a mortuary, with embalming and an intricate casket. But many feel those practices are harmful to the earth, and more and more people are opting for “green burials.”

By EternalCoil.ca
A month ago I posted about how some cemeteries are going green with not using normal caskets or headstones. Here are some products that will help with passing away green. Right now they are made overseas (maybe Canada is too conservative??), but I’m sure a form of them will be here soon enough.

Centreville Company Plants Cremated Remains in Tree Root Systems
By Kendra Marr, Washington Post Staff Writer
The expression “living memorial” has never been so literal.
Start-up EcoEternity is launching an unusual twist on cremation interment in Middleburg. Trees, not burial plots, are the final resting places for the ashes of the deceased. For a price, the Centreville-based company […]

By Mark Harris, Relentless Media
When the funeral train following Chris Nichols’ plain, pine coffin arrived at his grave site one spring morning three years ago, this is what it saw. A simple cavity dug into the red earth of a southern pine forest, bunches of needles and rose petals strewn into and around the hole. […]

Ecological burial offers final gesture to protect the environment

By Mike Marino, Cibola County Bureau
New Mexico is one of the most environmentally friendly states in the country. A proliferation of wind farms to generate power, enough sunshine to encourage solar power utilization, and the distribution of low-watt CFL light bulbs through the schools like the program […]

Burials returning to the practice of days past
Frank Fisher, Park Record
Green burials at green-burial sites have become almost as common in English communities as the corner pub and are now drawing interest in the United States.
This futuristic trend is a practice from the past. Picture a funeral where a loved one is laid to rest […]

Green movement progressing to cemeteries
By Karen Nugent TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Before the mid-1800s, families cared for their dead — holding wakes at home and burying loved ones in simple wooden caskets, often on their own property, where they could visit grave sites whenever the mood struck.
Those practices changed for several reasons, according to Mark Harris, […]