The Centre for Natural Burial

By Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
OWNERS of an environmentally friendly burial ground say it could be the answer to Huddersfield’s grave shortage. Susan and Michael Brook have about 6,000 plots at the seven-acre Rose Hill natural burial ground in Birkby.

By Danny Law, Deeside Piper and Herald
FINZEAN residents are hoping to get permission to build a new graveyard near to the Birse and Feughside Church. The new cemetery would include a “green” graveyard allowing more environmentally-friendly burials.

By Alexandra Boyd, How Green is Your Life
t is with a sad and heavy heart that I write the last blog for 2007.
It’s at this time we look back at what the passing year has brought and look forward to the new one and the unknown things it may bring. I for one would like […]

By Jennifer Coles, Evening Telegraph
Plans to build a new eco-friendly burial site costing £15,000 have been unveiled.
Wellingborough Council wants the burial site on the south side of Doddington Road cemetery in Wellingborough, an area which is unsuitable for stone masonry, and is applying to the Government for the money to help finance the project.

Must Britain’s cemeteries and crematoriums be so drab and dreary? Steve Rose reports on moves to shake up the architecture of death
The Guardian
Death used to be a nice line of work for architects, but these days it’s not exactly a growth area. It generated the tombs and pyramids of Egypt, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the […]

The Comet
Wilbury Hills Cemetery, on Stotfold Road in Letchworth GC, won the bronze award in the International Green Apple Awards for 2007, at a ceremony in the House of Commons, run by the Green Organisation.

By Angus, Woodlands
“Green burials” of various sorts are increasingly popular - many people want to escape from what they perceive to be the conveyor-belt experience of some crematoria and the impersonality of cemeteries and churchyards.  Many people also find established funeral rituals are not right for them. More positively, woodland burials or green burials are […]

By Craig Christie
MORAY could gain its first green burial site as part of the legacy of a co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation community. An application has been lodged by the son of Eileen Caddy to create a natural resting place in a section of woodland near the village.

Biz Online - Eastern News
Norfolk woodland burial park has been named the best in the country for the third year running. Colney Woodland Burial Park, just outside Norwich, has been named best green burial site at the cemetery of the year awards.

By Catherine Collins, Evening Telegraph
Concerns have been voiced over the sites earmarked for a town’s new cemetery after it was revealed the existing one could be full in as little as two years. Rushden Town Council fears the cemetery in Newton Road will be full between the next two to 10 years and has asked […]