The Centre for Natural Burial

By Graeme Stemp-Morlock, Green Living Magazine
It’s one of the biggest and most expensive decisions you will ever make in your life: your funeral. When a loved one passes away, many things are considered in a short time. Increasingly the environment is one of those things.
A worldwide movement for green burial is gaining momentum in Canada. […]

The inconvenient truth about our last rite of passage spurs a natural-burial movement
By Chris Smith, Checkerspot Magazine
Sometimes it’s the heart that is last to go, a knot of dense muscle still recognizable after the other organs have long since vaporized. Sometimes non-combustible material is found among the remains — prosthetic implants, dental filling sand unretrieved […]

Salvation Army
Green burials have arrived in Canada. Instead of a metal casket placed in a vault lined with concrete, environmentally aware Canadians will soon have the opportunity to choose to be buried in biodegradable boxes or cloth shrouds.

By D. MacDonald, Willful Suspension of Disbelief - blog
For as long as I can remember I always had a hard time with the ritual of death. I could not understand the need to pump one’s veins with a fluid that slowed decomposition, put one’s body in a varnished fancy box, and line one’s grave with […]

By Linda S. Morris - lmorris@macon.com
Owners and supporters for a “green” cemetery planned in east Bibb County finally got approval Monday to proceed.
In a 3-2 vote, the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission approved a conditional-use permit to allow a natural cemetery at 4600 Davis Road. The applicant is Summerland Group Inc., which is owned […]

Idea of being laid to rest in natural burial cemetery very appealing
By Anne Finlay-Stewart, Sun Times
When I read about the proposal for a natural burial cemetery near Paisley I knew that the time had come to write the column I’d been thinking about all winter. Now that the crocus and forsythia buds are out, life […]

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
Best way to think of it as the Circle of Life is a green cycle or reduce, recycle and reuse. A full commitment to the environment should not just involve Earthly actions, but the final celebratory exit according to cradle to grave eco supporters. Getting married is a style choice throughout […]

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 […]