Grave Matters - A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

Updates on the green burial movement, including green cemeteries, natural burial grounds, cremation, green and eco caskets, backyard burial, reef balls, and home funerals.

Friday, February 29, 2008

Keeping it Local Even in Death

If you want to see a model of how we can survive -- and even thrive -- in an increasingly warming world, book a table at the White Dog Café ...

Friday, February 22, 2008

Edward Abbey: Green Burial’s First Modern Practitioner

The opening of Ramsey Creek Preserve in the fall of 1998 may mark the genesis of the modern green burial movement in this country. But I pr...

Friday, February 15, 2008

Natural Return, Shown in Living Color

The typical funeral home sendoff -- with the body chemically embalmed, laid out for view in the metal casket, and then bunkered in a concre...

Friday, February 08, 2008

How Green the Ecopod?

A number of readers weighed in on my assessment back in January of the British-made Ecopod, the stylish but pricey coffin that's making ...

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