Tag: green burials

Capsula Mundi burial pods grow live trees from dead people

As with other green burials such as Bios Urna (shrub pots pre-planted with soil, seeds, and human remains) and Poetree Burial Planter (human ashes in a biodegradable cork pot, planted with a boxwood sapling and ringed with the deceased’s inscription in ceramic), families and friends could visit the future flora, care for it and rest in its shade.

Vertical Cemeteries are a Modern Catacomb in Jerusalem

Jerusalem's new subterranean cemetery is providing a solution to the problem of where to bury people nowadays.

Capture your loved ones in custom glass planets?

An artist in northern California (need we add, "where else but?") is making tiny glass beads meant to look like planets or solar...

The Urban Death Project will turn your dead body into beetroot

Finding greener ways to bury our dead is nothing new. In both Judaism and Islam, people are buried in the...

Towers of Silence in Iran is the ultimate green burial

The Tower of Silence, a "green" and ancient burial site in the West of Yazd, Iran.