[Greenbuilding] Green Funerals

[Alan Abrams]

a good friend, Beth Knox, devotes a great deal of her effort to this field:

http://www.crossings.net/index.html

AA

*Alan Abrams**
Abrams Design Build LLC*
*A sustainable approach to beautiful space*

6411 Orchard Avenue Suite 102
Takoma Park, MD 20912
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:12 PM, RT <archilogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
> So, since the List is so quiet and since off-topic topics with which
> everyone is intimate (ie in the past - drying laundry, choices for toilets,
> battery chargers) seems to encourage contributions from people who would
> otherwise not likely post a message, I wonder if listmembers would care to
> talk about funerals ... something that is fresh on my mind and something
> that it seems many friends and acquaintances have also had to deal with in
> recent weeks and no doubt, something that all of us will have to deal with
> at some point in the future.
>
> ie I'm curious as to the attraction that cremation seems to hold for many,
>  an option which has claims of "Green" being associated with it (an opinion
> with which I disagree).
>
> ie The "Green" UK practise of "upright" burials, ostensibly with an eye to
> conserving space.
> I have visions of the effects of frost heave creating horrific scenes
> every Spring if this practise were carried out in most Canadian locales.
>
> ie cardboard coffins ? N-n-n-nyeh. Rented coffins ? Mmmnhh.
>  ... and so on.
>
> --
> === * ===
> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
>
> < A r c h i L o g i c  at  Y a h o o  dot  c a  >
> (manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")
>
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