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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One of the problems with cremation is mercury emissions. It is important to remove the fillings in teeth before burning. It would be great to hear if anyone knows of this as standard practice anywhere, or offered to the families. I have always been curious if crematoria don’t already remove teeth – for the gold, or the silver that is combined with the mercury.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rick Reibstein<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MA Office of Technical Assistance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>9th floor, 100 Cambridge Street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Boston, MA 02114<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>617 626 1062<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steven Tjiang<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> bill.allen@verizon.net; Green Building<br><b>Cc:</b> archilogic@chaffyahoo.ca<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] Green Funerals<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Would a solar cooker get hot enough? ..I suspect you end up having a barbeque instead of cremation.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But the greenest is to just have to the corpse be chopped up and just fed to the animals. No?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br clear=all>---- Steve (KZ6LSD)<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:48 PM, <<a href="mailto:bill.allen@verizon.net">bill.allen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To be "green" it must be sustainable. Allocating any amount of physical space to the dearly departed is just not sustainable. We will eventually run out of room. Perhaps that is why people like cremation...you can be scattered at your favorite place(s). Perhaps if the cremation was accomplished via a solar cooker it would be greener still?<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: RT <<a href="mailto:archilogic@yahoo.ca">archilogic@yahoo.ca</a>><br>Sender: <a href="mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org">greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br>Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:12:18<br>To: GBioEL<<a href="mailto:greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org">greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>><br>Reply-to: <a href="mailto:archilogic@chaffyahoo.ca">archilogic@chaffyahoo.ca</a>,<br> Green Building <<a href="mailto:greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org">greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>><br>Subject: [Greenbuilding] Green Funerals<br><br><br>So, since the List is so quiet and since off-topic topics with which<br>everyone is intimate (ie in the past - drying laundry, choices for<br>toilets, battery chargers) seems to encourage contributions from people<br>who would otherwise not likely post a message, I wonder if listmembers<br>would care to talk about funerals ... something that is fresh on my mind<br>and something that it seems many friends and acquaintances have also had<br>to deal with in recent weeks and no doubt, something that all of us will<br>have to deal with at some point in the future.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>ie I'm curious as to the attraction that cremation seems to hold for<br>many, an option which has claims of "Green" being associated with it (an<br>opinion with which I disagree).<br><br>ie The "Green" UK practise of "upright" burials, ostensibly with an eye to<br>conserving space.<br>I have visions of the effects of frost heave creating horrific scenes<br>every Spring if this practise were carried out in most Canadian locales.<br><br>ie cardboard coffins ? N-n-n-nyeh. Rented coffins ? Mmmnhh.<br> ... and so on.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=hoenzb><span style='color:#888888'>--</span></span><span style='color:#888888'><br><span class=hoenzb>=== * ===</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Rob Tom</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Kanata, Ontario, Canada</span><br><br><span class=hoenzb>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a ></span><br><span class=hoenzb>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>