Resources and Information Supporting Green Burial in North America
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.
By Val Sweeney, The Inverness Courier
A DISUSED cabbage field, for most people, is probably not the most obvious place to bury their loved ones. But it was in such a field that family and friends gathered 10 years ago this week to bury my father.
By Kate Lock, The Press
It’s my birthday tomorrow. I hadn’t envisaged celebrating the occasion at a green burial site, but one has to follow the work. As my editor reassured me, “There’s nothing like going to a burial ground on your birthday, it makes you know you’re alive.”
Eco-friendly burials eschew headstones, embalming and pricey caskets made from exotic imported wood
By Nancy J. White, Toronto Star
Imagine a gently sloping hill covered with fallen leaves, green ferns and bright wildflowers, the branches of sturdy oaks and maples arching overhead. Birds chirp in the trees. Squirrels and chipmunks scamper on the ground.
Now imagine yourself buried underneath.
New sites planned to meet woodland plots demand
By Jenifer Johnston, Sunday Herald
EVERYONE IN Scotland will have the option of a woodland burial within five years, experts predict, as a raft of new sites come under consideration for eco-friendly graveyards.
Scotland currently has seven woodland or natural burial sites, but this is set to rise dramatically in the coming years.
By Bangor Daily News
ORRINGTON - Fourteen pristine acres along the Penobscot River could become perpetually green. An Auburn-based organization told town planners last week it wants to create a “green” cemetery — possibly the first in New England — off the Mill Creek Road.
By Anna Millar, Scotland on Sunday
IT MAY look like a laundry basket, but this is increasingly the future for those of us who - not to put too fine a point on it - have no future. The wicker coffin is rapidly emerging as the way to carry on being green for eternity. The woven cane caskets don’t cost the earth, either in terms of environmental damage or - at around £500 cheaper than a wooden version - hard cash.