January 18th, 2010 by admin
While the Ecopod triumphs in simplicity, it does not skimp on style. It is available in multiple colors - and can be silk-screened with doves, Aztec suns or other designs, and lined with cream or blue feathers, so that customers can choose the Ecopod that best reflects their personalities. Wu chose the forest green model - with a Celtic cross on top
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January 11th, 2010 by admin
These coffins are the antithesis of the funeral industry’s usual rain-forest mahogany and steel caskets, which are held together by formaldehyde-infused glue and hermetically sealed to keep nature out. According to Cynthia Beal, the founder of the Natural Burial Company, this preservation process has turned modern cemeteries into “parking lots” for the dead. She says she hopes her products will push the trend toward natural burial parks - currently there are just a handful in the country.
January 8th, 2010 by admin
Interest in “green” burials has been increasing in recent years, and the Ecopod is one of the first coffin to fit the environmentally conscious consumer niche. Originally developed in England, it is sold in the United States by the Portland-based Natural Burial Company. Visitors to the company’s showroom will soon be able to see a variety of other biodegradable coffin made of paper, formaldehyde-free plywood, fair-trade-certified bamboo and hand-woven Somerset willow.
January 6th, 2010 by admin
This July, when Jorgi Wu was laid to rest in central California, she became the first American to be buried in an Ecopod - a 100 percent biodegradable coffin made of recycled paper. The seedpod-shaped coffin is designed to be planted in the ground, dissolve and replenish the earth with its nutrient-rich contents. Who needs embalming, cement vaults or herbicide-based lawn care?
January 3rd, 2010 by admin
A collapsible cremation cardboard casket is formed of cardboard and has the appearance of a typical wood or plastic casket. The cardboard casket is assembled by folding along pre-scored lines to form a two-piece domed lid having a plurality of slots on the bottom and a set of slots in the back edge. The slots engage a plurality of tabs extending upward from the top of the back wall of the tray. Tabs within the slots on the back wall of the lid and the slope of the back wall of the tray provide support for the lid to stand in an upright position. When the tray is covered with the lid, the tabs engage the slots in the bottom wall of the lid, thereby securely holding the lid in place. During a ceremony, one lid section may be closed position and the second lid section is upright, thereby giving the appearance of a standard two-part cardboard casket lid.
December 30th, 2009 by admin
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December 29th, 2009 by admin
Tristram Coffin (August 13, 1909–March 26, 1990), also known as Tris Coffin, was a film and television actor from the latter 1930s through the 1970s, usually in westerns or other action-adventure productions.
Coffin was born in the gold and silver mining community of Mammoth, Utah, and was reared in Salt Lake City. He began acting while he was in high school and thereafter joined traveling stock companies. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in speech from the University of Washington at Seattle, Washington. He worked as a news analyst and sportscaster until spotted by a Hollywood talent scout. His stolid looks were said to have served him well in his later roles.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Jeff King in Republic Pictures’ King of the Rocket Men, the first of three serials starring the “Rocketman” character, who would later be paid homage to through the character of The Rocketeer, which was adapted into a Walt Disney film in 1992.
In 1955, he joined Peter Graves, William Schallert, and Tyler McVey in the episode “The Man Who Tore Down the Wall” of NBC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame. He had guest starred in the series Adventures of Superman, sometimes playing a “good guy”, sometimes a “bad guy”.
He also had a role in the very first TV episode of The Lone Ranger, as Captain Reid of the Texas Rangers, the older brother of the man who would become The Lone Ranger after his brother and four other comrades were murdered by outlaws. From 1951-1955, he appeared eight times as Colonel Culver in the Bill Williams syndicated television series, The Adventures of Kit Carson. He appeared nine times as banker Tom Barton in the syndicated half-hour color western series, The Cisco Kid, starring Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo. In 1956, Coffin appeared in different roles in six episodes of the syndicated series, Judge Roy Bean, with Edgar Buchanan, Jack Buetel, and Jackie Loughery.
Coffin played the lead as Captain Thomas H. Rynning in his own syndicated series 26 Men, based on official files of the Arizona Rangers in the final days of taming the “Old West” before Arizona statehood in 1912. Kelo Henderson appeared with Coffin in the role of Deputy Clint Travis.
He committed a noted blooper on television, in The Long Goodbye, in which he did not realize he was still on frame and walked off camera, despite the fact that his character was supposed to be dead. He also appeared in another episode of Climax!, Escape From Fear, in 1955.
Coffin died of lung cancer at the age of eighty in Santa Monica, California.
December 27th, 2009 by admin
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What these guys are carrying on their shoulders is no part of a fantasy land or a joy ride of an amusement part…then what is it? This is a coffin. Yes you heard that right, this is a coffin shaped as a huge fish, specially made to order by skilled artisans.
Spending lavishly on the last rites of your dear ones and burying them in some of the most exquisite of coffins had been an age-old tradition in African countries. But the tradition got swayed over by poverty and the funeral rites took a rather simple appearance. However, Ghana is one country that has managed to preserve the tradition owing to its relative prosperity being the world’s second largest cocoa exporter.
Therefore, even today, Ghanaians bury their dear ones in coffins that suit the deceased on in the best possible manner.
They believe that the coffin symbolizes a person’s aspiration. If one could not keep up to his aspirations when he was alive, he can at least unite with it in his death: this is the root thought behind these elaborate and brightly colored coffins that can include almost anything starting from a mobile phone to a bible or a fish to your favorite car.
December 20th, 2009 by admin
Green burials vary enormously in cost – from about £200 to about £2,000, but the average cost is about £700. What should you put the body in? You can use a traditional coffin which a few undertakers will sell direct to you or you can buy a cardboard coffin for about £60- £90, but many people like willow coffins. These can be found by googling “willow coffins”, and cost about £450 to £550. Bamboo coffins are also available. Of course, these alternatives can also be used for a more traditional funeral.
You may find that in exploring beyond the standard options of cremation or burial in a cemetery or churchyard, many people will try to talk you out of the alternatives, but there is a trend towards publicly available green burials as the following figures demonstrate. Today there are about 200 green burial sites, ten years ago there were only 50, and twenty-five years ago only one such site. Of these sites well over half are run by local authorities, a few by charities and about 60 by farmers or businesses.
December 17th, 2009 by admin
At the recent Shared Interest meeting in York, Jeremy Piercy, founder of fair trade success story Shared Earth, addressed the relationship between fair trade and the environment. In his eyes environmentalists and fair trade campaigners are missing a trick – the two separate campaigns have much to gain from working together.
Climate change is a serious issue for all of us, but for some of the poorest communities in the world it is a real problem. As the End Poverty 2015 Campaign states, severe weather events are expected to increase in frequency and intensity, and poor countries lack the infrastructure to respond adequately. Meanwhile, changing rainfall patterns will devastate the crops that many in developing countries rely on; and diseases such as malaria are also expected to increase in prevalence.
As a future cause of poverty, climate change is clearly a relevant issue for fair trade – a movement that seeks to use trade to improve the lives of the world’s poorest and most marginalised producers.
But fair trade can also offer hope to the climate change cause: Many goods produced within the fair trade sector are key examples of items being produced in a carbon-neutral way. Many of the small producer groups, which produce jewellery and handicrafts etc., use traditional methods, creating their products by hand or with simple tools. A large number of recycled or eco-friendly materials are also incorporated into fair trade products. For example, bags in the By Hand range are made from materials such as recycled Batik fabric, and fast-growing natural materials including rattan, lontar palm leaves and raffia leaves.
Although many fair trade products originate from the other side of the globe, the environmental damage caused by their shipping is far less than expected when sea freight is used. In his book, Coffins, Cats & Fair Trade Sex Toys, Piercy gives the example of shipping an eco coffin from China to the UK; when transported by boat it is roughly equivalent to driving a car in the UK for just 3-4 miles. It is airfreight that does the real damage, and fair trade organisations can choose to set the example here and transport their goods by sea freight alone.
Fair trade organisations selling products, which have been made using traditional, almost entirely carbon-neutral methods, can highlight the eco-friendly nature of the goods they are selling in comparison to those mass-produced in polluting factories, whilst the fair trade movement as a whole can also make it clear that buying fair trade is not just a fight against poverty, but also a step in the right direction as far as climate change is concerned.
Both fair trade and climate change enjoy mass public support and awareness of the two issues is high, thanks to media interest, celebrity support and extensive campaigning. Now it is time for the two campaigns to unite: for the fair trade movement to lead the fight against climate change, and for the climate change movement to lead the support for fair trade.
