The Centre for Natural Burial

By Karen Caffarini, Life Quotes, Inc.
Death is going green. A growing number of people are eschewing traditional end of life rituals for simpler, more environmentally friendly, and in many cases, less expensive green burials. Some casket manufacturers and funeral directors are responding to the trend.
Toxic embalming fluids, metal caskets and concrete vaults are prohibited, instead […]

STEVEN ELBOW | The Capital Times | selbow@madison.com madison.com |
People who want their last act on Earth to be environmentally friendly are closer to having an option in Dane County.
Last month the Natural Path Sanctuary, a cemetery that will consist of about 25 acres of wooded land in the town of Springdale, won approval for […]

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A generational shift towards cremation inadvertently leads to more eco-friendly choices.
By Katherine Butler
The dark economic climate hasn’t stop people from dying. But it is dissuading people from spending too much on the accoutrements of the afterlife. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports that the death industry is significantly scaling back as more people turn to […]

By Alexandra Waite, The Advocate
When pondering death and plans for one’s body after it is departed, most people feel they are only left with the options of traditional burial or cremation.
In contrast with this common belief, new research is showing that such burials and even cremation are becoming increasingly harmful to the environment and more […]

JOYCE EDLEFSEN jedlefsen@uvsj.com
ST. ANTHONY - Even death can’t escape change. In most cases, death means burial in a conventional cemetery after conventional embalmment and a funeral. Cremation is also an alternative. A new trend is evolving in the death business - green burial.
Green burial can mean internment in a place away from the usual cemetery, […]

SAMARA KALK DERBY | skalk@madison.com | 608-252-6439 |
BARNEVELD — On a warm, sunny Halloween day, a group of 20 people drove up a rural road at Circle Sanctuary, a nature-based pagan church and ecological preserve here, to spread and inter the ashes of one of their own.
Bruce Parsons, of Milwaukee, who identified as a Wiccan […]

by Brian Merchant
Green burials have been a growing trend in the United States for some time now — and the term itself has come to encompass very different kinds of natural burials. But it’s still surprising just how fast they’ve grown. An AP story out today reveals that the Green Burial Council “now counts more […]

by Manuel Valdes,
Steve Sall moved forward on uneven, rocky terrain in his motorized wheelchair and came to a stop at the edge of a sweeping vista of ponderosa pines and bright pockets of yellow wildflowers.
Sall wanted to see the canyon he used to hike before Lou Gehrig’s disease left him near death. Three months later, […]

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 […]