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Going out ‘green.’ Demand grows for Florida funerals that preserve nature, cut pollution
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs bagpipes played, Janet McAliley’s family pulled her casket of woven seagrass on a wooden wagon...
Is California ready for 'human composting' as an alternative to casket burial, cremation?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMicah Truman shows a demonstration "vessel" for human composting during a March 14 tour of the...
All that remains: From liquid cremation to mushroom suits, why more people are opting out of burial
Salon via Yahoo News· 8 months agocemetery gravestones flowers Getty Images/La_Corivo There are an awful lot of tombstones in my...
Human composting? ‘Greener’ alternative to burials and cremation gains steam across US
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year ago“Not everyone is comfortable with the impact of burial, which occupies land, or cremation, which...
Commentary: I tried to bury my mom in an environmentally responsible way in L.A. It was impossible
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA cemetery plot designated for green burial in Cherokee Township Cemetery near North San Juan,...
How to become human compost (and other ways to be environmentally-friendly, post-mortem)
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChanging values and advances in technology have led to a burgeoning “green” death industry from...
In a 'return to nature,' California legalizes human composting for environmental benefits
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCalifornians will soon have a new end-of-life burial option: human composting. Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Gearhead, father, fisherman: Rockford's Fred Young took business, life 'to global level'
Rockford Register Star via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIt's not every man who can say he has traveled the planet and helped NASA explore another, but Fred...
‘It Smells Like Earth’: Inside the Eco-Minded World of Human Composting
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAfter eons of burial and cremation being the only options, a new process is giving grieving families...
Could human composting come to Rhode Island? Here's what a new bill would allow.
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPROVIDENCE − When you die, do you want to be pumped full of formaldehyde, placed into a beautiful casket and entombed in a concrete vault in the ground? Turned into ashes in a crematorium? Buried ...