Resources and Information Supporting Green Burial in North America
By Bruce Ritchie, Tallahassee Democrat
Fran Sullivan-Fahs has a worm composting bin where she recycles fruit peels and other kitchen scraps. She gives away worms as Christmas presents to other gardeners. So when she dies, Sullivan-Fahs says, she wants to be put in a plain wooden casket and buried without a vault to encourage decomposition. She also doesn’t want to be embalmed because it involves chemicals.
By Marisa, Jewish Life, Environment (blog)
I honestly can’t remember now what I was searching for online when I first stumbled on this website. I’d never heard of Green Burial before, but being an environmentalist as well as someone who believes in planning ahead, I was intrigued. By the time I’d finished reading through all of the very extensive information on the site, I was fascinated and more than a little excited.
Electronically translated (AKA, very poorly translated) from French
By Sophie Massé, Urbania
Raoul Bretzel and Anna Citelli, two Italian designers, are proud to present Capsuled it Mundi. An organic coffin. A large egg of bioplastic which can accommodate the body in foetal position
Le décès écologique expliqué aux vivants
Texte : Sophie Massé
Vous pourriez quitter votre vie terrestre réduit en compost, à bord d’un grand oeuf ou d’un sarcophage en papier recyclé. Et que diriez-vous de léguer votre ADN à une plante ?
By Park Chung, The Korea Times
A woodland burial system is scheduled to go into effect from next year but initial confusion has pitted policymakers against environmental activists. Civil activists claimed that the new burial system would ruin nature, as it will expand burial sites in forests.
By Park Chung, Korea Times
A woodland burial system is scheduled to go into effect from next year but initial confusion has pitted policymakers against environmental activists.
By KS, Embalmed to the Max (blog)
Looking for an eco friendly way to be buried? An inexpensive way? What do you think of cardboard? You will be surprised. Visit CardboardCasket.com to view their services and price list. You will be quite surprised.
There’s a push to simplify burial and speed a body’s return to earth
By Lewis Taylor, The Register-Guard
Don’t want formaldehyde gel to pickle my cells
Keep this body embalmed, in a state of uncalm
Don’t let this body get locked inside a plastic box
With the earth all around, but no way to touch ground
I’ve got to Biodegrade At a natural rate
By Kiliii Dreaming // Native Ways Photography
I don’t normally post photos from my commercial shoots, but this one seemed appropriate as the theme is ‘Green Burial’: simply allowing people to rest in peace in way more sacred than being placed in a plastic bag never to decompose. Working in the studio always reminds me how much I love to work with the control of light, though natural light can of course produce equally amazing results.
Weston & Somerset Mercury
ECO-FRIENDLY residents could soon be able to bury their relatives in cardboard coffins and swap headstones for trees at alternative burial sites.