Reduce Carbon Footprint with “Flameless Cremation”

Minnesota is leading the way in “green cremation,” a flameless process of reducing a body to its basic elements using alkaline hydrolysis. The Mayo Clinic Medical School has been using hydrolysis in its body donor program for several years, but last month, the first commercial unit in the US was opened in Stillwater, MN. For a Star Tribune newspaper article, see http://www.startribune.com/local/162436556.html

For a KARE-11 television story, see http://www.kare11.com/news/article/983169/391/Minnesotas-first-green-cremation-center-opens