When it comes to funeral planning, there are now many sustainable options for families to consider, including a natural burial, green funeral, and a homemade or eco-friendly coffin. Here’s a ...

Jake Garner makes wood caskets out of white pine with natural muslin cloth linings that are totally natural, without toxic finishes, toxic glues or synthetic fabrics.

Pahiki Eco-Caskets makes low-environmental-impact caskets out of Hawaii-grown wood. Pictured above is company founder Cortney Gusick working on a casket. Owner Cortney Gusick and casket carpenter ...

Caskets made of seagrass. Urns made of salt. Burials in "natural" cemeteries. The choices for green funerals are growing, but not everyone supports the movement.

Green-Wood Cemetery in South Slope began offering green burials eight years ago. Since then, around 20 people have been buried with no steel-lined casket or embalming fluid—just a shroud.

Human composting, or natural organic reduction, is a process that transforms the human body into soil. It typically involves placing bodies in a container and covering them with carbon and ...

Green burials are an eco-friendly way to handle the dead. Learn more about what it is, why it’s important, and more.

Some natural burials might use linen, wool or silk shrouds; some even use cardboard, wicker or untreated wood caskets. But in all natural burials there is no chemical embalming, no cherry red ...

Green burials are surging in popularity in Massachusetts. Advocates say it stems from increasing awareness of climate change and carbon footprints.

The natural burial boutique offers biodegradable caskets, shrouds and other funeral products that have an environmentally friendly twist.