Mark Harris

Mark Harris is a former environmental columnist with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the author of the signature book on green burial, Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (Scribner, 2008). The book follows a dozen families who conduct natural burials for their dead, including burials in backyard grave sites and "natural cemeteries," as well as sea burials and funerals at home, among other strategies.

He lives with his family in eastern Pennsylvania, where he recently worked with the board of the Fountain Hill Cemetery, in Bethlehem, to create the Lehigh Valley's only natural burial ground, Green Meadow.