Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much ...

The Santa Maria Utilities Department will host a class to show how residents can put local food and yard waste to better use, ...

Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, says the company’s human composting service is designed to provide an eco-friendly final arrangement now available to families across Illinois.

Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ...

Interested in learning more about composting food scraps and yard waste? A free Backyard Composting Workshop, led by the University of California Master ...

Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known as human composting.

Green-Wood Cemetery aims to start human composting in 2027, making it the first to put the process — known as Natural Organic ...

Rare earth elements sit at the heart of everything from iPhone speakers to wind turbines, yet the world’s supply chain still runs through a narrow geopolitical funnel. Currently, China controls ...

The historic cemetery is running out of space for new graves, and plans to offer a more sustainable alternative to cremation ...

PULASKI, Wis. (WFRV) – Wings, pizza and comfort food are often staples during the Super Bowl—but so is waste. “[There is] ...