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Benefits of an ecoMemorial include:
- Green Memorial honors loved ones.
- Creates habitat & ecological infrastructure.
- Protects endangered species & coral reefs.
- Promotes biodiversity & ecological health.
- Quality of atmosphere and carbon offset.
- Mitigates the impact of development and strengthens coastal resilience.
- Sustainable end-of-life practice.
- Extension of the person and ongoing life.
- Creates a dedicated location for persons choosing to have their cremains scattered.
Low Cost: $450 US when you furnish the
cremains. $300 without cremains.
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Cemetery Burial
Each year cemeteries in the USA require:
- 830 thousand gallons of embalming fluid.
- 1.64 million tons of reinforced concrete for
burial vaults.
- 90,000 tons of steel for caskets.
- 30 million board feet of hardwood for caskets.
- 2,700 tons of copper and bronze.
- Pollution resulting from gasoline powered lawn mowers and maintenance equipment.
- Tons of pesticide and fertilizers.
- Thousands of acres of land transformed for cemeteries and mausoleums.
High Cost: $7,000 average in the US
according to CNBC 2011.
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ecoMemorial Trees
An ecoMemorial is a mangrove tree planted using the patented REMTM
Reforestation System
in which the cremation ashes or cremains of an individual become the medium for growth and development of a mangrove seedling. During the development process, the cremains are assimilated as the seedling is nurtured into a reproductively mature coastal hardwood tree. ecoMemorials can also be dedicated without cremation ashes to create green memorials that honor loved ones and friends.
Now and for the Future
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All ecoMemorial orders include a minimum of two mangrove dedications. With an ecoMemorial (for cremation ashes) the first dedication is without cremation ashes in your name now; then at life’s end, the second ecoMemorial mangrove will be grown with your cremations ashes. Thus, investment in an ecoMemorial today will have an immediate positive impact on the environment and establish a responsible plan for the future, saving family from financial and emotional burdens at a difficult time. If you order or gift an ecoMemorial (without cremations ashes) two mangroves are dedicated now to you or the beneficiary you designate.
With or without cremains an ecoMemorial creates critical habitat, helps protect coral reefs and solves some of today’s most pervasive environmental problems. Each ecoMemorial is a contributor in our larger scale coastal reforestation initiative, which offers an exceptional opportunity to establish a meaningful bequest of positive environmental and social change.
All ecoMemorial dedications are entered into our database and we provide the GPS coordinates linked to the satellite photo so you can view the restoration site via a standard Web Browser. This will enable you to remotely monitor your contribution to reforestation for years to come. Family and coming generations can visit your ecoMemorials in person or view the area via the Web. We anticipate that satellite resolution will continue to improve and even 3-D observation will become readily available, greatly improving remote viewing in the not too distant future. Through personal privacy controls, you have the option to enable others to locate and view your green memorials or you can choose to restrict public access. Of course, you or someone you designate can change the privacy options at any time.
Your ecoMemorial
Envision your own ecoMemorial as an earth friendly pathway into a natural world that establishes a legacy of environmental stewardship. Selecting an ecoMemorial as an integral part of end-of-life planning may be the most generous lifestyle choice you will ever make.
Most ecological and green funeral methods attempt to minimize the impact of disposition of the body on the environment; however, we take an innovative approach that protects shorelines and enhances the coastal ecology.
Give a Gift
Honor loved ones and friends with a meaningful gift that will make people’s lives better while contributing to society, both now and in the future. An ecoMemorial will continue to contribute to the health of the planet for years to come. Through natural regeneration, benefits are extended far beyond the original location. Order the appropriate ecoMemorial online or by telephone. We will subsequently contact you to collect the gifting information and notify the recipient of your generosity, if you wish.
Coastal ReforestationTM
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Our Living memorial, ecological funeral or green funeral services provide responsible end-of-life planning that directly benefits the world’s most productive ecosystems and repairs environmental damage. An ecoMemorial establishes an accessible location of coastal beauty, ecological importance and spiritual significance where family, friends and future generations can gather for remembrance, reflection and celebration.
Our mission is to integrate societal traditions and cultural practices with new technology in order to promote restoration and the sustainable use of tropical and subtropical coastal regions.
What do you want descendants to know about you and your life? How do you want to be remembered? We all have individual experiences, memories, relationships and personalities. It’s important to record and preserve facts about your life for generations to come so that even after your passing, information about you can live on for family and friends. Let us help you create a lasting legacy that will benefit future generations. Our Database will provide Internet access to the location and links you provide, such as your Eulogy, Facebook, LinkedIn page or Personal Web Site, etc. An ecoMemorial can be dedicated with or without cremation ashes and you can gift to those who have previously passed as-well-as living loved ones.
Celebration of Life
ecoMemorial.orgTM
is creating enduring and accessible green memorials to family and loved ones through the restoration of coastal hardwood forests. Our initiative in sustainable end-of-life practice contributes to the long-term health of coral reefs and coastal ecosystems. We focus on current environmental challenges facing an economically connected world, including biodiversity, quality of the atmosphere and nature based community learning. Our strategies include partnerships with environmental agencies and NGOs as-well-as the direct acquisition of degraded lands for reforestation through the creation of ecoMemorial.org Preserves.
Scattering Ashes The practice of scattering cremation ashes or cremains over oceans and bays has gained popularity as a disposition option. It is not possible to place a memorial at sea that is easily accessible to all and in most cases a
traditional memorial (e.g. monument, plaque or head stone) along the coast is not a feasible option. Thus, traditional memorials must still be placed in locations, such as cemeteries for loved ones to visit.
An ecoMemorial dedicated without or even with only a small portion of the cremation ashes, creates an exclusive place in a coastal setting where family and future generations can gather to honor the deceased. This allows persons to have their ashes scattered at sea but still have a dedicated location and memorial of coastal beauty. The concept of enhancing or restoring a natural setting as an end-of-life decision provides the opportunity to pass-on a better world to future generations. Our ecological green burial services are a practical and dignified way to memorialize a loved one. The ecoMemorial becomes an extension of the person and symbol of ongoing life.
Pets and Animals
Family pets and animals can be accommodated with their own ecoMemorial or included with your ashes. The decision to bury your dog, cat or other pet’s cremains is intensely personal and private. The lack of options for ecological or green burials within a pet and/or family cemetery makes an ecoMemorial the ideal choice for immediate use or future planning. Pet cemeteries are typically privately held and do not have any permanent legal status. History holds many incidents of pet cemetery owners selling their land at a future point for alternative use. A benefit of an ecoMemorial.org TM Ecological Green Burial Preserve is the permanent legal status which protects the character of the surrounding ecosystem in perpetuity.
Proactive Environmentalism
Although End-of-Life Planning is seldom considered a tool of environmentalism, our system creates synergy between reforestation and a sustainable practice of ecological green burial. This means that you have the opportunity through responsible planning to make a significant contribution to the overall future health of the planet. Mangroves are remarkable tropical trees that grow in the intertidal region between low and high tide with their roots submerged in seawater. They are known as a halophyte, which means they thrive in salt water and saline soil. Their ability to grow where land meets the sear enables the mangrove to inhabit coastal regions where no other tree can. Mangroves are natural members of the coastal ecosystem and critical to the health and survival of coral reefs and maintenace of a healthy maine environment. Their coverage of wetlands provides many diverse species of birds, fish, mammals and crustacea an irreplaceable habitat. Mangroves preserve water quality and reduce pollution by filtering suspended material and dissolved nutrients.
Urbanization & Overexploitation
Despite much heighten public awareness and proliferation of protective law, coastal ecosystems and coral reefs continue to suffer from the negative impact of unsustainable development and urbanization. Overexploitation and the destruction of natural habitat threaten the extinction of numerous marine species within our lifetime. The interaction of humans with the environment, coupled with the world’s population growth, has depleted critical habitat and is cascading to place increasing pressure on the health of the planet’s vital ecological communities. This decline also threatens the viability of commercial and recreational fisheries, scuba and water sports, as-well-as the ever increasing economic vitality of ecotourism to local communities.
ecoMemorial.orgTM is working to mitigate environmental degradation by increasing biodiversity and the resilience of coastal ecosystems.
The REMTM
Reforestation System
For over fifteen years, we have worked in the field of reforestation to develop technology that strengthens coastal resilience, promotes sustainable development and reduces the pollutants reaching estuaries and oceans. Our sustainable method of ecological green burial provides an approach with sound principles for supporting nutrient recycling functions through the living organism of a reproductively mature mangrove. The tree flowers on an annual basis, which results in the dispersing of seeds from the original planting across the entire ecosystem.
Our scientist, engineers and program managers have extensive expertise in international projects that have utilized the REM methodology to produce tangible results in coastal reforestation and creation of wildlife habitat. EcoMemorial initiatives in green funeral and ecological burial provide practical solutions that protect endangered species and coral reefs, thus improving ecological health of the marine environment mitigating the impact of coastal development and human interaction.
Personal Choice
Members have told us that they like knowing their decision will protect coral reefs and preserve critical wildlife habitat. Many people are dissatisfied with the detached character of cemeteries from the natural world and are pleased that the ecoMemorial is designed to benefit the coastal ecology. Our reforestatioin program provides a lasting commemoration and opportunity for bringing the bereaved and future generations together for the celebration of your life while contributing to a healthy environment. We offer the opportunity to arrange a Green Funeral, Green Memorial with environmental conviction.
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All attempts of traditinoal Green Funeral, Green Memorial, ecoFuneral, ecological funeral, green burial, enatural burial and ecological burial are to ensure the burial site remains as natural as possible.
Generally with green funeral or green burial, Interment of bodies is done in a bio-degradable casket, shroud, or a favorite blanket characterize cemetery green funeral or burial. However, ecological or natural burial is preferable in a native habitat vis-a-vis a green cemetery that is a cultivated site. A natural or green burial site for family, and pets typically attempts to minimize the negative impact of the body or negative impact of the disposition of the body n the environment. The ecoMemorial.org green funeral, green memorial approach maximizes the impact but makes the impact a net positive for the ecology. We dedicate native trees in your loved one's honor promoting biodiversity and encourages preservation, conservation and permaent legal staus for the restoration and memorial site. ecoMemorial.org is an green funeral or green burial approach which includes prinicples of a natural or ecological burial and living memorial.
The ecoMemorial Green Funeral, Green Memorial program is an ecological burial or green approach, which is an ecoFriendly alternative to traditional cemetery burial and burial practices.
It is an earth friendly option to consider cremation and an ecoMemorial Mangrove Tree. Choosing an ecoMemorial now for end of life planning relieves your loved ones of the distress that comes in having to make difficult, and often costly, decisions after your passing. ecoMemorial green funeral and green memorial is environmentally sustainable end of life practice and death care, which includes carbon sequestration and ameloriatioin of pollution with improvements in quality of atmosphere. This natural burial or Green Funeral, Green Memorial approach is a means of acquiring, restoring, and stewarding natural areas and wildlife habitat. Ecological burial or green burial, green funeral, green memorial promote a high level of inherent social and ecological value as-well-as provides a legacy of environmental stewardship for future generations.
Green Funeral, Green Memorial, ecoFuneral, ecological funeral, ecological burial, natural burial and green burial are terms used interchangeably in the vernacular. When a pet or companion animal dies, cremation is a common practice and a natural or green burial with an Ecological or Green Funeral, Green Memorial is becoming an accepted practice. For those wanting to combine their pet cremation ashes with their own, the option for a natural or Green Funeral, Green Memorial in a cemetery is nearly nonexistent. Thus, ecoMemorial.org provides and ecologically sound alternative, which allows individuals to share an Ecological or Green Funeral, Green Memorial with a pet or companion animal.
The ecoMemorial Green Funeral, ecoFuneral, ecological funeral, Green Memorial approach restores coastal ecosystems through coastal reforestation, the creation of natural habitat and environmental restoration. Ecological burial, green burial Green Funeral, Green Memorial for humans, animals and pets. This also provides a natural memorial and legacy for persons scattering cremation ashes or planning to scatter creaminS; a special place for family and loved ones to gather in rememberance and respect.
Prior to the civil war, almost every funeral was a Green Funeral, ecoFuneral, ecological funeral, (i.e. green burial or natural burial). People died at an earlier age either from disease, injury or accident. After a family member died, families would prepare the body in a plain wooden coffin, effecting a green funeral (green burial or natural burial). Embalming a body never occurred, which is again reflective of today’s green funeral procedures. The body was kept in the home for family and friends to visit. The body would be buried in a family cemetery on the farm or in a church or town cemetery. In some countries, these green funeral customs are still in practice today. However, over time Americans have become unfamiliar with caring for the deceased and a funeral industry sprang-up to take care of burying the dead. The green funeral or natural burial vanished and with the need to transport many bodies due to the civil war, embalming became wide spread and a common practice in the traditional funeral.
In essentially all cases, the green funeral practices (green burial or natural burial) of today simply attempt to minimize the negative impact of a traditional cemetery burial on the environment. The ecoMemorial.org living memorial ecological burial applies patented Coastal Reforestation Technology to bring about positive environmental and social change. ecoMemorial.org takes a diametrically opposed approach to the common Green Funeral, ecoFuneral, ecological funeral, green burial or natural burial methods resulting in a positive long-term impact through thecreation and restoration of natural habitat.ecoMemorial.org maximize the positive impact of the deceased on the local ecology with innovative green funeral practices and technology .
The deceased have an important role in preserving the planet by promoting an environmental or ecoFuneral alternative to cemetery burial. Crematoriums are attempting to reduce the release of pollutants and carbon by filtering cremation ashes. This means that bodies can be prepared without the pollution normally associated with cremation. This new technology makes cremation ideal for the ecomemorial.org Green Funeral, LIving Memorial, Green Memorial, eco funeral or ecological burial system.
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