Green Options » cremation http://greenoptions.com/tag/cremation Posts tagged 'cremation' Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:26:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Dead People Will Provide Heat to Crematorium Facilities http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/05/dead-people-will-provide-heat-to-crematorium-facilities/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/05/dead-people-will-provide-heat-to-crematorium-facilities/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:26:20 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/05/dead-people-will-provide-heat-to-crematorium-facilities/ cross

If you’re dead and worried about the carbon emissions created from your cremation, relax. The Swedish town of Halmstad has a solution. After an environmental review showed that Halmstad’s crematorium was pumping too much smoke into the air, the facility’s director decided to re-use heat from the cremations to warm up the crematorium’s buildings.

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