For most of human history, the dead were not dressed in polished hardwood boxes, padded interiors, and layers of metal and lacquer. They were wrapped. Long before caskets became the norm, across cultures and continents, the shroud was the

Last month, a handful of our Green Burial Society of Canada board members had the opportunity to come together in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. With our board spread across the country,  truly coast to coast, with representation from nearly

I still remember the first green burial I was asked, as a Life-Cycle Celebrant, to support a family with.  Royal Oak Burial Park’s Woodlands was expanding into Phase two of a four-tiered dedicated natural burial area. Arriving early, I

Why does green burial feel so right to us? Green Burial is more than a set of funerary principles and practices; it is an ideological movement based on sound ethics. Ethics are the soul of this movement – giving

Green burial, also known as natural burial, is a practice going back to our roots to a time when we cared for our own dead. It is burying our dead in an environmentally respectful way, omitting damaging chemicals, and

The ancient act of burying our loved ones is a simple and yet profound ceremony. There are three required acts to a burial, and three intentions that match these. Firstly, we dig the grave; we prepare a nest for