The Centre for Natural Burial

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. […]

WithinKilleen Blog
While an odd topic, it’s an important one. I came across an article in a magazine that’s similar to the one below. If ever I make an early exit, I just wanted to put it out there that this is what I’d like….
Preserve Offers Natural Burial Sites
This may not look like a cemetery, but […]

Goodbye, metal casket; hello, biodegradable box:
The American way of death is going green
By Eileen Finan,  People Magazine
Before Catherine Still died at age 42 on May 15, alter a long battle with leukaemia, she knew how she wanted to be buried. Her body was to be refrigerated, not preserved with embalming fluid. She would lie in […]

Do You Realise? Blog
One of my greatest pet peeves is the absolutely ridiculous misuse of land for people to be buried in metal boxes in the ground. I’ve always said I wanted to be cremated, although now I wonder about the air pollution caused by crematoriums.

A Celebration of Jim Strigle’s Life
By Charmaine Smith-Miles,  Anderson Independent Mail
A story on Mr. Strigle’s burial and the rise of “green cemeteries” is tentatively scheduled to air at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday’s edition of NBC Nightly News.

A photographic tour of Ramsey Creek Preserve
By MSN Lifestyles

The Environmentally Friendly Way to Be Buried
By Blair Mathis, AC
Many people are more aware of environmental dangers and the need for ‘green’ preservation than any other time. Some feel it is their duty, while others follow that need as a way of life.
But what about after death? For those who dedicate their lives to preserving […]

Latest installment in green lifestyle stories urges making one’s final decision earth-friendly.
By Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute
The media have been all over stories of eccentric families’ toilet paperless lifestyles and their green weddings, but now CNN has pushed the peripheries of ecological awareness to the end of life by making the case for a […]

By Jonathan, Move Blog
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. Instead of the friendly union, of life and death so apparent in Nature, we are taught that death is an accident, a deplorable punishment for the oldest sin, the archenemy of life.
But let children walk with Nature, let them […]

By Nancy Jacques, Good Dirt Radio
When it comes to resource efficiency, even in death, we have choices that can affect a sustainable future. Consider the conventional burial, American style, which annually requires some 828,000 gallons of toxic embalming fluid, over a hundred thousand tons of steel and 30 million board feet of lumber.