In what could be a first for our area, Green-Wood Cemetery is Brooklyn is planning to offer so-called "human composting." ...

"The Catholic Church opposes human composting because we believe the remains of human beings who are made in the image and ...

Green-Wood Cemetery will start offering a service called Natural Organic Reduction, where a human body is decomposed naturally and turned into soil.

Here's my review on the Maze Compost Tumbler. How well it made compost, what was it like to assemble, was this composter good ...

Rep. Jessica LaMontagne became interested in natural funerals after witnessing a loved one’s home burial in Vermont. “I was ...

Burial and cremation come with some pretty major environmental problems. Both involve huge amounts of energy, resources and ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Each Ash Wednesday, priests pray these words while tracing the sign of the cross with palm ashes on Catholics’ foreheads. But just how we ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Sep 25, 2025 at ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...