News
- What's so Green about Natural Burial?, Emily Miller, Southern Funeral Director Magazine, August 2025 Issue
- A mushroom casket marks a first for 'green burial', Sam Bar, Vox's The Verge, July 19, 2025
- Green Burial Education: Then and Now, Sam Perry, Memento Mori, December 2024 Issue
- The Cremation Conquest: Why Not a Green Burial?, Emily Miller, Memento Mori, November 2024 Issu
- 'Wonderful to See': Billings Mountview Cemetery offers green burials, KTVQ, November 4, 202
- What's Old Becomes New Again: Green burial is more than a choice, it's a movement, Rachel Essig. Memento Mori, October 2024 Issu
- ‘Green burials’ grow in popularity as alternatives to traditional funerals, Detroit News, September 1, 202
- Michigan Officials tried to stop a 'green' cemetery. They just lost in court, Reason Magazine, August 16, 202
- Mother advocates for green burials as interest rises, K8 News, June 6, 202
- Fear of Death, and Misinformation vs. Green Burial, The Order of the Good Death, March 7, 202
- Scrub Hub: what is a green burial? (Yes it involves decomposing into the earth), IndyStar, February 5, 202
- Michigan Township Bans All Cemeteries to Prevent Cemeteries from Starting One, Reason Magazine, January 22, 2024
- Exchanging Gifts: Natural Burial is a Conservation Strategy by Lee Webster, Land Trust Alliance Saving Land, Summer 2023
- More people are opting for an eco-friendly burial in nature, DutchNews, September 18, 2023
- 5 Common Myths That Families Have About Green Burials by Brand Buzz, Time Bulletin, September 4, 2023
- Penn Laird’s Green Burial, Virginia Living, August 25, 2023
- Back to nature by Susan Sorensen, c-ville [VA], August 23, 2023
- Environmental friendly funerals, going green by Kat Robb, Message Media, August 20, 2023
- ‘Back to the Earth’: Green Burials in Greendale Cemetery by Mike Crowley, Meadeville Tribune [PA], August 16, 2023
- Concern for the Earth sparks interest in eco-friendly burials by Danirae Renno, The Bradford Era, August 10, 2023
- Savvy Senior: How to Plan a Green Funeral by Jim Miller, ETV, August 1, 2023
- Cherry bucks tradition with ‘green’ burial by Beverly James, Florida Courier, July 28, 2023
- Panorama Natural Burial offering ‘green’ cemetery in Earlysville by Amaya Mitchell, NBC29, July 11, 2023
- Blacksburg leaders considering ‘green burials’ by Lindsay Kennett, 10 News on the Frontline, July 6, 2323
- Pasco County conservation cemetery embraces nature and sustainability for eternal rest by Lloyd Sowers, Fox13 News, June 15, 2023
- How we care for dead bodies—or don’t by Richard A. Kaufman, The Christian Century, May 8, 2023
- New Options Available for Vermonters Seeking Green Burials by Hailey Morgan, WCAX-TV, April 25, 2023
- Green Burials: The Growing Appeal of New Earth-Conscious Interment WYPR Maryland Public Radio with host Tom Hall, April 20, 2023
- Natural Burials Haven't Been Allowed at Many New England Cemeteries: Now They're Catching On by Lexi Krupp, Vermont Public Radio, April 20, 2023
- Grief Without a Grave: Green Burial and Accessibility by Donelle Dreese, Psychology Today, April 15, 2023
- Going out ‘green.’ Demand grows for Florida funerals that preserve nature, cut pollution by Nicholas Rivero, Miami Herald, April 19, 2023
- Want a Florida Green Burial? Here’s what you need to know by Nicholas Rivero, Miami Herald, April 19, 2023
- Green burials: The growing appeal of new Earth-conscious interment, featuring Lee Webster and Jennifer Downes, National Public Radio, WYPR Midday, Aired April 20, 2023
- Cemeteries That Save the American Landscape by Devinne Melecki, Smithsonian Magazine, April 27, 2023
- Down to Earth: Peaceful conservation burials benefit the planet—a final gift from loved ones by Cathy Jesse, The National Wildlife Federation, March 31, 2023
- To help Earth’s future, people are getting buried like it’s 1860, by Tara Behrampour, CBS Baltimore, March 8, 2023
- Human Composting Comes to CA by Roxanne Hoorn, Good Times Santa Cruz, March 7, 2023
- The green burial industry could be worth $1 billion by 2030 by Annalisa Merelli and Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, March 7, 2023
- Green Burials on The Morning Show with Mary Jacobsen, March 16, 2023
- A green burial by Scott Reeder, Illinois Times, March 30, 2023
- Natural Burial for a Greener Afterlife by Gemma Alexander, Earth911, February 27, 2023
- Death Has a Big Carbon Footprint by Esta Pratt-Kielley, Maine Public Radio, February 24, 2023
- Green Burial: What we need to know, Green Burial Association of Maryland, February 5, 2023
- Comparing green funeral options by Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, January 31, 2023
- Unearthing the Options by Sophia Smith and Jacob Shaddock for C-Span's 2023 StudentCam Competition, January 18, 2023
- How Hospices Can Support Families Seeking Green Burials by Holly Vossel, Hospice News, January 4, 2023
- Back to the Earth: Non-traditional Burials by Rosie Wolf Williams, Next Avenue, November 16, 2022
- Maryland's first Green Cemetery to Open in Windsor by Christina Cordon, Baltimore Sun, November 29, 2022
- The Green Reaper: How to rejoin the infinite with minimal mess by Heather Smith, Sierra Magazine, Fall 2022
- The Church forbids ‘human composting’ at death. But what about ‘green’ burials? by Collin Price, America Magazine, The Jesuit Review, October 13, 2022
- The American Way of Death Goes Green by Patti Waldmeir, Financial Times, October 3, 2022 (subscription access only)
- Sustainable Exits and Green Burial Interview with Andrea Sebastyan, Nashua Public TV, September 21, 2022
- Rest in Peace, Not Pollutants: Green Burials Say ‘No Thanks’ to Chemicals in the Grave by Mary Lhowe, ecoRI News, August 17, 2022
- Colorado offers ‘natural’ and ‘green’ burial options by Steve Rabey, The Gazette, July 25, 2022
- Green Burial Interview with Kate Manahan, What Mama Wants, June 14, 2022
- From Dust You Came and to Dust You Shall Return by Raquel G. Frolich, Bull Magazine, June 2022
- Average Cost of a Natural (Green) Burial: A Price Breakdown by Kate Wight, cake, April 25, 2022
- Expert in Jewish burials is devoted to making them more ‘green’ by Emma Goss, Jewish News of Northern California, April 20, 2022
- In These Cemeteries, Nature Also Rests in Peace by Xander Peters, National Geographic, April 2022
- Saving the Environment and Cash Through Green Burials by Lindsay Kalter, MedScape, April 4, 2022
- The Piedmont’s First Conservation Cemetery is Rethinking Burial by Zella Hanson, INDY Week, March 30, 2022
- Piecing Together the Green Burial Movement by Olivia Milloway, Bitter Southerner, February 8, 2022
- New Hampshire's "Sustainable Funeral" Group Working to Change State's Embalming Law by Tom Anderson, Funeral Director Daily, February 7, 2022
- Green Burials: The Sustainable Solution for Cemeteries, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, February 1, 2022
- Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life by Sallnow et al, The Lancet, January 31, 2022
- The Push for Sustainable Death by Amanda Gokey, Concord Monitor, January 26, 2022
- Cremation: Your Last Chance to Avoid Another Pandemic After Covid-19 by Dr. Diana Cunningham, New American Way of Death, January 14, 2022
- All Things Green Burial on the inaugural episode WWHR's Let's Have Words with Lara Samuel, December 9, 2021
- Green Burials can change our relationship with death and help the Earth by Mallory McDuff, Washington Post, December 17, 2021
- How to Become a Tree when you Die—Debunked, TalkDeath, November 17, 2021
- Green Burial? Home Funeral? Local Advocates Want You to Know Your Options by Abby Hamilton, Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, October 25, 2021
- How ‘Big Funeral’ Made the Afterlife so Expensive by Eleanor Cummins, Wired, October 2, 2021
- ‘Green burials’ on the rise in Maine by Jackie Mundry, News Center Maine, July 22, 2021
- How to Hold a Funeral at Home by Christina Leimer, BeSide, April 29, 2021
- Green Burial Wants to Clean Up American Funerals by Jake Maynard, Slate, February 5, 2021
- A Brush with Death: Interview of Amy Cunningham of Fitting Tribute Funeral Service, NFDA, April 13, 2021
- Put Me in a Wooden Box by Nick Wooten, Associated Press/The Ledger Enquirer, April 24, 2021
- Green burials are slowly gaining ground among environmentalists, by Rachel Fritts, Science News, March 2, 2021
- Graveyards are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity, by Gemma Conroy, Scientific American, February 24, 2021
- People Who Love the Land Are Getting Interested in Green Burials by Amanda Gokee, VTDigger, January 10, 2021
- Green Burials Becoming an Option in the Upper Valley by Tim Camerota, Concord Monitor, November 16, 2020
- The Green Burial Revolution: Sustainable End of Life Options, by Sandra Yeyati, Natural Awakenings, October 30, 2020
- Sustainable Death Care Improves Water, Soil and Air Quality, by Julia Brunner, EcoSpotlight, October 12, 2020
- Life After Death: What Human Burial Options Will Look Like in a Sustainable Future by Joan Meiners, Discover Magazine, August 6, 2020
- I visited a 'green cemetery' in California, and it made me question everything about American funerals by Isabella Jibilian, Business Insider, August 5, 2020
- It's a Good Thing: The cemetery industry sees a major plot twist by Matt O'Grady, BCBusiness, July 7, 2020
- Green Burial Giving Back to the Planet by Lee Webster, Green Energy Times, June 21, 2020
- Grand Prairie Offers Green Burial by John Kent, GreenSource DFW, May 18, 2020
- Brooklyn Neighbors Come Together to Bury a Stranger by Julie Walker, AP News, May 1, 2020
- More Catholics choose green burials, hoping for a lighter footprint by Valerie Zehl, US Catholic Magazine, April 21, 2020
- The ‘green death’ movement: Scientific advances give more eco-friendly funeral options by Emily Gillespie, Fortune Magazine, April 9, 2020
- Green Burial: We’re All In the Same Cycle of Life by Nancy DeVault, Natural Awakenings, April 4, 2020
- It takes Less Than 30 Days to Compost a Human Body by Jef Akst, The Scientist, February 17, 2020
- "Mushroom Burial Suit" Called Into Question by Diane Ionescu, Connecting Directors, February 10, 2020
- The Emotional Wallop of My Friend’s Green Burial by Janet Siroto, NextAvenue, January 30, 2020
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