Green Till the End
by Mairi Beautyman, Berlin, Germany on 07. 5.06
Germany-based design firm Uono has discovered a way to make a casket both green and...stylish? (for lack of a better word). Environmentally-friendly handmade Cocoon, composed of rapidly-renewable untreated jute and natural resin, sports a “new, timeless shape and an overall look free of the associations of the typical rectilinear casket,” according to the firm’s Web site. It is also significantly lighter than traditional designs, insuring an easier journey into the ground. This high-gloss, podlike departure from standard fare has blasted into the market. The firm recently received a Silver Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Business Week magazine. Read more on organic burial here, here, and here. ::Uono via ::Industrial Designers Society of America
If I might express one complaint: with so many interesting products and green gadgets highlighted here on your site, there is almost never a price tag associated with these objects. When TH's is researching these items, could finding a price tag be a priority?
Or is that just me? Maybe no one else cares cause no one else wants to buy these items?
Thanks. :j
Regular old casket? Not green.
Pod casket? Green.
Donate your body to science? Really green!
Being eaten by a bear? Extreme green!
Looks like what they launched Spock's body in, in the second Star Trek movie.