Tag: Green Funerals
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You Can Buy a Cremation Online, Urn Included
For the man or woman who has everything. You can now buy a cremation package online. That's a Black Friday.
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The Week in Pictures: Pulling Fresh Water from Thin Air, Personal "Multicopters," and More
Find a brilliant design to produce fresh water, a personal, electric "multicopter," and more.
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'Mushroom Death Suit' Could Remediate Bodily Toxins With Specially-Trained Mushrooms (Video)
Using mushrooms to challenge our unhealthy obsession with "body preservation," artist Jae Rhim Lee fabricates a suit that will remediate environmental toxins from dead bodies.
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Most Popular Articles of October: Gross Seat Savers, Sharks Invading a Golf Course, and More (Slideshow)
One of the downsides of public transportation is that you can't always expect a free seat, and you can't save a place for yourself or a friend. But Jaymi showed us a novel solution -- fake spilled ice cream cups and coffee to keep
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Most Popular Articles of October: Gross Seat Savers, Sharks Invading a Golf Course, and More
Our most popular articles for this month include clever (but gross) seat savers, an unexpected shark invasion, and travel by cloud.
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Poetree: A Funeral Urn That Lets You Plant A Tree From Ashes
Though conventional 'deathcare' is hardly green, thanks to the use of embalming chemicals, concrete vaults and non-biodegradable caskets, burials are getting greener each year with various eco-friendly options and smarter
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When I Die, Dissolve Me in Lye: The Liquid Cremation Controversy
From composting your corpse to greening your funeral, we've looked at plenty of options for more sustainable disposal of human remains. Perhaps the most controversial is chemical
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Catholic Cemetery Launches Green Burial Offerings
When I penned a guide a few short years ago on how to green your funeral, it seemed like most of the options available for a more sustainable burial leaned, shall we say, toward the new agey
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Rest With Peace of Mind in an Eco-Friendly Coffin
Maybe you did your best to live an eco-friendly life -- you recycled, rode your bike to work, supported the green cause. So, what better way to shed your mortal coils than with an Earth-conscious sendoff in a sustainable
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Live On From Beyond The Groove: Have Your Ashes Pressed Into Vinyl
TreeHugger has reviewed many different, greener things to do with our bodies after we have shuffled off the mortal coil, from freeze-drying to composting . Now an English company offers a new option: Have your ashes pressed into vinyl record
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Natural Burial Travels East
When I wrote about a Green Burial Expo in California, asking if green burials could be fun, one commenter worried that we were perpetuating the notion that sustainable funerals have to be "wacky" or offbeat. Indeed, while
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The Most Eco-Friendly Way to Spend Eternity?
At the end of an average lifetime, most folks in the developed world are responsible for producing quite a bit of waste and pollution, the problems from which many of the planet's
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Forget Tombstones - Get An RFID Memorial Tablet Instead
Image of a traditional tombstone with an RFID tag that carries a little more personal data. Via Objecs. Objecs is selling its Personal Rosetta Stone passive RFID-enabled data tags as an addition to a loved one's tomb stone - you can enter the person's
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Can Green Funerals Be Fun?
It's funny how uptight people can get about death. Yet it's one of the very few things, along with birth, taxes, breathing etc, that we all have in common. For the green minded, there are plenty of more sustainable end of
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Composting Your Corpse (Again): Lee Hays' Hillarious Living Will
When I wrote about Ethical Man's plans to compost his own corpse comments ranged from those who thought it was a good idea, to those who thought
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Japan's High Tech Graveyard Solution as Burial Space Grows Scarce
Green (or not so green) burial rituals routinely catch our eye, one of the reasons being the carbon footprint of coffins being built just to go into the ground or the amount of lawn that has to be manicured. Japan has
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Final Footprint: Colorful, Expressive Funerals for a Better Future
I was once told by a commenter that writing about green funerals was taking environmentalism too far. But with 500,000 deaths in the US alone every year - the funeral industry has a huge environmental impact. Luckily,
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Recycled Funeral Stationery: Remembrance Tree Papers
Handmade, Wildflower Seeded Memorial Stationary When I wrote a guide on How to Green Your Funeral, it was received with skepticism from some readers who felt it was taking environmentalism 'too far'. Yet if we try to live our lives as greenly as
