This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. Along a winding, bright green moss trail in Steelmantown Cemetery is a small ...

Seven years ago Jack Davenport, co-owner of Davenport Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, was approached with what seemed to be an unusual request. A family trying to grant the last wishes of a loved ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with more information about the Kokosing Nature Preserve, Kenyon College’s green burial cemetery located in Gambier. The saying goes "everything old is new ...

Dec. 21—ANDERSON — Grieving families tasked with laying a loved one to rest normally can choose from among conventional burial, cremation, or donating the body to science. Maplewood Cemetery has ...

Rolfstad hopes the association, which also offers green caskets, green urns and other eco-friendly products, will open its own natural burial ground near Seattle within a few years. "Green burial is ...

The Frederick County Planning Commission on Wednesday approved a site plan for a “natural burial” cemetery, where remains could be interred without the use of embalming chemicals, concrete vaults or, ...

Human composting — or natural organic reduction — is an eco-friendly alternative burial option to the traditional casket burial or cremation methods. When composted, a body is placed in a steel vessel ...

Washington state is the first to legalize composting as an alternative to casket burial or cremation. Cost is estimated at $5,500, more than typical cremation, but less than a traditional casket ...

ALTURA — Plans to offer natural burials at a cemetery in Winona County have been halted. Matt Connell had revived the Whitewater Falls Cemetery Association in order to offer burials at the historic ...

Young ash trees are still in the morning sun, their leaves yet to grow full. At their feet, a hole, freshly dug, lies empty and waiting. Beside it, bundles of flowers, all tied with straw. The only ...