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Swedish Town Recycles Heat from Cremations
Arts and Literature have given us Soylent Green and The Matrix, suggesting human bodies as raw material. Usually this makes people grimace and shiver. But in the Swedish town of Halmstad, it will soon...
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How Do You Plan on Easing Your Burden on the Planet When you Die?
While death is not something that anybody wants to talk about, they certainly should. The process of what to do with your remains is a very
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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'....
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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Most Popular Articles of October: Gross Seat Savers, Sharks Invading a Golf...
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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Most Popular Articles of October: Gross Seat Savers, Sharks Invading a Golf...
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...
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'Mushroom Death Suit' Could Remediate Bodily Toxins With Specially-Trained...
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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The Week in Pictures: Pulling Fresh Water from Thin Air, Personal...
Find a brilliant design to produce fresh water, a personal, electric "multicopter," and more.
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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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Solar Replaces Vultures for Traditional "Sky Burials", But Vultures May Come...
The Parsi community disposes of bodies by letting vultures feast on them, but a crash in vulture populations saw them turning to solar. Until now.
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Designer creates decomposable garments for funerals
Pia Interlandi's Garments for the Grave offer an ephemeral fashion to dress the dead.
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