Category: Eco-Friendly

More and more Baby Boomers are warming up to the idea of a simplified green burial without all the fuss and expense of a traditional funeral.

People often are not aware of the environmental impact of traditional funerals. Click here to learn more about this and environmentally sound green funerals.

Nature preserves across the country are beginning to get on board with green burial services by giving families an alternative type of burial.

Interested in green funeral options? Many aspects of a traditional funeral are far from eco-friendly. The coffin alone can require a lot of energy and natural resources to create. Once it’s placed in the ground many of those materials won’t decompose and may even pollute the surrounding area.

Technology is changing the way we live our lives, and now it’s changing how we end them. As more people realize the ecological impact of traditional burials, the demand for green end of life services is increasing around the country.

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We’ve all heard how harmful burials can be for the environment if they aren’t a green burial, but what about cremation? When you consider that traditional burial has resulted in 4.3 million gallons of embalming fluid going into the ground, cremation is clearly the more eco-friendly option.