Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — The Rich Earth Institute will host an On-Farm Field Day from 3 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, at Spring Tree Road (head to the West River ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

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 ...