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Eco Burials, the latest ‘Green’ thing

  • January 2, 2008

By, Are We Green Yet? (Blog)
The latest eco-friendly trend, that can be your last environmentally friendly act before leaving this world, has been labeled green burial.
This new burial process shuns the traditional burial ritual which environmentalist believe is exacting a huge toll on the environment. Embalming injects corpses with formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, that releases […]

Compost in Peace

  • January 1, 2008

An eco-friendly, personal approach to death
By: Sharon Tregaskis, Urbanite
Under leaden mid-October skies, 150 mourners trek into a verdant hollow in upstate New York, sheltered by evergreens and a host of maples in their fall finery. No shiny black hearse idles nearby. No wreath of hothouse flowers lends its sickly sweet scent. No regiment of marble […]