The Centre for Natural Burial

Andover Advertiser,Hampshire Business
IT does what it says on the can and that’s why it was chosen as one of the winners in this year’s Hampshire and Isle of Wight Sustainable Business Awards.
East Meon’s Sustainability Centre was named as Small Business of the Year, a category sponsored by Business Link, when the awards were presented by […]

A realistic look at green burial practices
BY STEPHANIE DROSTE-PACKHAM FOR GREENING OF OIL
We are constantly thinking of ways to reduce our carbon footprint. We change our light bulbs to the more efficient squiggly ones, we use our reusable water bottles, and we recycle. But just think of the ultimate of ultimate green moves: an environmentally […]

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 […]

Inauguration Scheduled for Saturday, January 31
Green Burial Council Exec, others to speak at Moles Greenacres Memorial Park in Ferndale, WA
Ferndale, WA — January 23, 2009 — Moles Family Funeral Homes and Greenacres Memorial
Park, Whatcom County’s family-owned provider of funeral services for four generations, is announcing the
inauguration of The Meadow, Western Washington’s first natural burial ground. […]

The Meadow, a new, natural burial ground, opens this week in Ferndale
By KRISTIN DIZON, Seatle PI
Giving added meaning to the phrase “pushing daisies,” Western Washington’s first green cemetery opens this week.
The Meadow, a natural burial ground in Ferndale, will inter unembalmed bodies in a simple, biodegradable coffin or shroud, without concrete vaults or liners. It […]

An ordinance concerning the dead still is stirring up a lively debate.
By Jennifer Burk
More than two months after the Bibb County Commission passed a cemetery ordinance restricting how and where bodies may be buried, opponents and supporters of the law still are arguing the issue. Beth Collins, CEO of Summerland Natural Cemetery, and her partner, […]

By KATIE SEMINARA, Vindy .com
Hybrid vehicles, reusable grocery bags and energy-efficient light bulbs come to mind when some people think of conservation. Now, the last possible way for a person to “go green” is offered by some local funeral homes — through green burials. “It’s going back to a simpler form of burial,” said Dan […]

By GO Press Releases News & Opinion
The “natural burial” movement is blooming in the United States, and it will get a huge boost this week when Meredith Vieira, the host of NBC Today Show, interviews Carmen Flowers. Flowers is one of the authors of a new book titled Grave Expectations - Planning the End of […]

By Going Out Green Blog
“Green Revolution Hits Dead End in Georgia Cemetery Proposal,” read the headline of the Wall Street Journal last Friday. At least for now, residents of Bibb County, Georgia, have killed the dream of Elizabeth Collins to open a 57-acre natural cemetery on the eastern edge of Macon when board commissioners enacted […]

Who says funerals can’t be fun? Two authors give tips for a quirky send-off
NBC News
“Life is such a rich, complicated, joyous, mysterious, wild ride. Everyone has stories to tell and lessons to pass on, and what better way to do that than when you’re alive? It was your life; your funeral is the one time […]