The Centre for Natural Burial

The Natural Burial Expo 2010 is being held on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday April 25, 2010 at St. Paul’s Christian Church in Raleigh, NC. Organizers report that this is the first event of its kind on the East Coast. It is being organized in response to the growing concern about the fragility of the […]

Eco-friendly bamboo coffins will soon be available
By STACEY WOOD - The Dominion Post
Wellington furniture maker Andrew Hubbard breathes new life into the business of death with personalised, eco-friendly coffins.
Tender-rest coffins are made from fast-growing bamboo and joined with low-toxicity PVA glue, making them a green option for burial or cremation, as well as being cleaner […]

By Jim Nicolow, The Greenwash Brigade
Did you ever hear that joke — that the quickest way to significantly reduce your environmental footprint is to die?
However, while death is a natural part of ecosystems, with dead organisms consumed by other organisms (waste equals food), dead humans are typically embalmed with a toxic cocktail of chemicals and […]

By April Dembosky, Marketplace.
An eco-friendly coffin producer in the U.K. has given some funeral advocates sticker shock over its expensive biodegradable caskets. And April Dembosky reports environmental advocates also question the company’s commitment to green

Arthur Black, Seaway NewsI could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
Unfortunately, most of us don’t get to choose all of our next-door neighbours in the Great Hereafter, but we do have some say in how we present ourselves to them. Which is why I found myself […]

By Adriel Bettelheim, CQ Staff
If the biodegradable-coffin business ever takes off, its executives can point to this year’s Democratic National Convention as their breakout moment.
The convention organizers’ goal of making the gathering the greenest political hobnob in history has unleashed a wave of pitches and promotions surrounding organic foods, renewable fuels, carbon offsets and consumer […]

New Company Offers Eco-Friendly Caskets
By Gus Jarvis, The Watch
Thanks to Telluride-based EcoffinsUSA, eco-friendly caskets, coffins and urns are now available nationwide to funeral directors and funeral homes for an all-natural, green burial.
Ecoffins are hand woven from organic sustainable materials, available in six unique casket styles, four coffin patterns and six ashes urns. Standard sizes accommodate […]

By Leah MacLennan, ABC news
An invention to make burials more environmentally friendly has been developed by a funeral director.  Kevin Hartley is a strong advocate of ‘natural burial’, or being put in the ground without a coffin.
He has come up with an invention to make burials more natural while still incorporating the elements of a […]

Cardboard is the latest thing in caskets Urns can be made of compressed cotton or rice
By DARRON KLOSTER, Canwest News Service
People can now reduce their environmental footprint even after they’ve stopped walking the Earth.  Victoria funeral parlour is promoting cardboard caskets covered in wood veneer and urns made of compressed cotton, rice and other biodegradable […]

Ecoffins are designed to “biodegrade along with the body,” says Joanna Passarelli.
By The Denver Post
The truly dedicated environmentalist can celebrate Earth Day eternally in an Ecoffin, a sustainably-designed biodegradable casket that two Telluride women are marketing.
First introduced in the United Kingdom, the Ecoffins are made of bamboo, pandanus (a sea grass alternative), willow crowns or […]