The Centre for Natural Burial

By KIM BRISCOE, Evening News 24
Many people choose to devote their spare time to knitting jumpers, scarves or baby clothes for family and friends, but Fiona Dowson has put her spinning and weaving skills to a more melancholic end.
A growing market for eco-funerals has led the 42-year-old to set up a business creating green burial […]

Julia Carlisle, Brisbane Times
There’s a burning environmental issue that Robert Larkins wants to address, and he’s dead serious about it.
If we really want to help the planet we should stop getting cremated, says Larkins, the author of Funeral Rights, a new book about the Australian funeral industry.

Eie Flud Blog
Eco living is a bit of a misnomer! Because, not one to miss an opportunity to be full of woe! Today is all about eco-dying!!

By Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles Science & Technology
Fresh off our story a few days ago reporting on the increasing trend towards more eco-friendly funeral pyres in India, we bring you news now of a Scottish company’s attempts to revive the jute industry by building coffins with the plant material. J Funerals, based in Dundee, […]

BBC News
A Dundee company is hoping to revive the city’s jute industry by selling coffins made from the material. J Funerals, established during Dundee’s reign over jute manufacturing, has been continuing to find new and innovative ways of using jute.

By Philip Proefrock, Green Options
The move towards a greener lifestyle extends even to the end of life. Choices for the final resting place include some relatively new approaches. Many of these developments seem to be coming out of the United Kingdom and from Europe, though they are being adopted in other countries, as well.

By Green Space
A look at the growing movement towards natural, or green, burials with Doug Lovelace and Cinthia Beal of the Natural Burial Company.

Eco-friendly dying
By Peter Hadzipetros, CBC News
You’ve done your bit for the environment during your lifetime - minimizing to whatever extent possible your consumption of non-renewable resources and your discharge of stuff that is bad for the air we breathe and the water we drink.

By Laura Shinn, Willamette Week Online
Some of us want a stylish sendoff to the afterlife. Let’s take Anna Nicole Smith, for example: She was laid to rest in a made-to-order pink couture gown inside a mahogany casket draped with a pink-sequined cover adorned with feathers and—you guessed it—pink ribbon. But we’re willing to bet those […]

The Shropshire Star
At her funeral parlour in Ludlow, she says her final send off will reflect her life: “green” and fun.