Resources and Information Supporting Green Burial in North America
Many people prefer not to think about death, maybe hoping that if they don’t think about it, it’ll never happen.
I’m fascinated by death - how it happens, how we deal with it, attitudes towards it. Since 1991 I’ve conducted almost 1000 funerals without religion as a Humanist Celebrant, so I’ve learned a lot about British attitudes to death, dying and bereavement, and a lot of social history. Death doesn’t discriminate - it comes to all classes, all ages, all races.
BBC News
A town running out of burial space in its churchyard is hoping to set up a memorial website to encourage people to use a natural burial ground nearby.
By Philip Proefrock, Green Options
The move towards a greener lifestyle extends even to the end of life. Choices for the final resting place include some relatively new approaches. Many of these developments seem to be coming out of the United Kingdom and from Europe, though they are being adopted in other countries, as well.
By AMEERAH CETAWAYO, The Bowling Green Daily News
Plans for a cemetery that would have carried natural or “green” burials were scrapped, for now, after growing opposition from neighbors and general concerns about the plans for the project surfaced.
By: Kelli B. Kavanaugh, metromode
Driving north from the skyscrapers and stadiums of downtown Detroit to Upland Hills Farm, just north of Rochester in Addison Township, is a study in quick transitions: from urban core to suburban sprawl to rolling pastures and forests in just 45 minutes.
By AMEERAH CETAWAYO, The Daily News, Bowling Green, KY ,
James D. Carrier will go before the City-County Board of Adjustments at City Hall Thursday night for the second time in his quest to construct a cemetery at the southeast intersection of Bristow Road and Sunnyside-Gott Road, according to planning documents.
By Jonathan Dawson, Newstatesman
There are few surer ways to understand how a culture ticks than to look how it deals with death. In Africa, where I spent much time in the 20 years before coming to live here in Findhorn, the veils that separate the realms of the living and of the ancestors are thin and people pass easily between them.
Getting it Done in The Soko
With the many environmentally unfriendly aspects of a typical funeral, more and more people are looking into green funerals. Sarah Stefanson explains.
By Chuck Schultz, Lompoc Record
Some of $1.4 million collected from oil companies to lessen impacts of offshore drilling was allocated Tuesday by Santa Barbara County supervisors to seven projects ranging from a tidepools exhibit at the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum to a possible public hiking trail in the mountains above Carpinteria.
The high cost of funerals—to both your wallet and the environment—has spurred the rise of eco-friendly alternatives.
By Billie Grable, MSN
A loved one has died and you’re faced with the delicate decision of honoring their remains. Will it be an “ashes to ashes” cremation, which would save space on our overcrowded planet? Or will you go with a traditional “dust to dust” burial—and return your loved one to Mother Earth? If you think either of these choices are 100 percent environmentally friendly, think again.