Organisations
AUSTRALIAN ORGANISATIONS
Natural Earth Burial Society of Australia
The Natural Earth Burial Society is a non-profit, community based group formed to call upon Governments to provide land, and assist industry participants to establish genuine,dedicated Natural Burial Grounds and products for the people of Australia.
Natural Death Centre
The Natural Death Centre Inc. is a non-profit incorporated association located in the Byron Shire, Northern NSW, Australia.
We are currently a small, passionate organisation and a beautiful work in progress! We are modeled on the NDC UK, and are part of the great global wave of demystifying and reclaiming death.
GLOBAL ORGANISATIONS
Natural Burial Cooperative
The Natural Burial Cooperative provides comprehensive resources supporting the development of natural burial and detailed information about natural burial around the world.
Green Pet Burial Society
The Green Pet Burial Society is a public education, advocacy and research organization dedicated to bringing the green burial movement to pet cemeteries, supporting pet-burials in family plots of family cemeteries, and encouraging thought and discussion about inter-species families.
EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS
Natural Death Centre – UK
The Natural Death Centre is a social entrepreneurial, educational charity that gives advice on all aspects of dying, bereavement and consumer rights in this area. We give support on family-organised and environmentally-friendly funerals and run the Association Natural Burial Grounds. Although green, we promote choice and education not just environmental issues.
NORTH AMERICAN ORGANISATIONS
Green Burial Council
The Green Burial Council is an independent, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally sustainable deathcare and the use of burial as a new means of protecting natural areas. Funded by contributions from individuals, certification fees, honoraria, and a grant from the Roy M. Hunt Foundation, we are represented by 300 (and growing) “approved providers” operating throughout North America, with offices in the US and Canada.
Green Burials – (USA)
GreenBurials.org was created to increase public awareness and provide educational materials on green burials and other eco-friendly options, create partnerships and exchange information with organizations sharing similar concerns, and refer individuals to agencies supplying local services.
Green Burial Alliance – (USA)
The Green Burial Alliance is a consortium of cemetery and funeral professionals committed to and actively engaged in promoting the advancement of Green Burial and related natural burial practices. It was formed to promote, support and preserve the purity of Green Burial by facilitating awareness and accessibility through information, education, and dedication to environmentally responsible, genuinely natural burial practices.
For those interested in ecological, sustainability and greening our last and perhaps greatest journey, check out the newly formed National Home Funeral Alliance at http://www.homefuneralalliance.org. We have an amazing upcoming conference in October 7-10 in Boulder, CO. Our keynote speaker is the internationally known, Josefine Speyer, founder of the Natural Death Centre in the UK. Check out the lineup and opportunity to study and learn from three of the pioneers in this movement at the preconference workshop. http://www.homefuneralalliance.org
Sounds fabulous Kate. Keep us posted about the Conference! I’ll add a post with the details. Warm Regards, Genevieve
Hi,
Would you be able to give me a post to go on this website to promote green burials. We are trying to stop the expansion of the Botany Cemetery into heritage market gardens. Alan Jones was on radio yesterday supporting the Cemetery. This is the post I put up including the Jones podcast: http://laperousemarketgardens.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/alan-jones-on-la-perouse-market-gardens-chinese-gardeners-and-randwick-council
would appreciate your support and it’s a good way to promote your site.
cheers, Lynda
Hello Genevieve. Just wanted to say that we are very much loving your website and fully support your green funeral awareness drive. It’s vitally important to get the word out there, and to show people that they have different options available to them; options that not only stay true to their environmental ethos, but that also aid the environment and the world in which we live. There are a variety of eco-friendly funeral services and products available, which we can offer, and we feel that more and more people deserve to know about them and their benefits. We have just launched very recently, and we currently offer green funeral services to the Perth and WA communities; our longer-term hopes are to roll out nationally throughout the rest of Australia. We are incredibly keen to showcase the positive environmental impact of green funerals. A Green Endings funeral produces fewer carbon emissions, and we work closely with non-profit organisation Carbon Neutral, one of Australia’s leading carbon management consultancies, to offset these emissions. We are proud to be able to offer our services to communities in WA, and we hope that we can help raise awareness and help people fulfil their environmental needs. More information can be found on our website http://www.greenendings.com.au. Thank you and keep up the great work!
Hi Lynda,
Thank you for your comment and sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I have been busy with a new baby and haven’t been as active on Green Cemeteries as I’d like to be. I’ve just posted a short article about the issue, check it out here if you would like. I hope that the Council has seen sense and denied the Cemetery’s proposal. Let me know if there is anything else that Green Cemeteries can do.
Sincerely,
Genevieve
Dear Green Endings,
Thank you for your comments! I am so happy to learn about you and I love the work that you are doing! It would be great to keep in contact. I’ve ‘liked’ you on facebook and added you to our ‘Services’ page. I have also written a short post that is scheduled for tomorrow morning. I hope that everything works out for you. It would be great to see you nation-wide.
Sincerely,
Genevieve