Here is one unexpected way to benefit those you leave behind:
Transition Mar Vista and Bridging Transitions present:
Greening Your Death: Your Final Footprint.
Transition Mar Vista and Bridging Transitions invites you to join us Sunday November 3rd, at the Green Tent, in becoming more aware and creative in how we deal with death.
Honoring the human life cycle and honoring the earth can go hand in hand, so let's find ways to green our final footprint. While dedicated to sustainable living, the green movement has been slow to address how our dying impacts the environment. In the US we bury 20 million feet of wood for caskets, 1.6 million tons of concrete and 4.3 million gallons of embalming fluids containing formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, every year! And cremation, often thought of as a green alternative to burial, has a significant carbon footprint as well as lacing our air with other pollutants such as mercury.
There is a better way to go!
Come learn about Green Burial, at Sea burial, and new more earth friendly options coming online. Drop by for a chat, information and resources, and participate in creative ways to honor our dead and our own legacy to nature.
You may also want to explore the Green Burial Council website. Honoring the human life cycle and honoring the earth can go hand in hand, so let's green our final footprint.