We started Nature's Casket to provide a simple yet elegant eco-friendly casket. Our mission is to ensure that our caskets have a minimal ecological footprint, and look good too.
We are first and foremost environmental advocates. But we also have backgrounds in carpentry and construction, as well as in artistic endeavors.
The mountain pine beetle infestation has destroyed millions of acres of lodgepole pines in the Rocky Mountains, and much of this wood needs to be harvested to avoid catastrophic fires. In addition to this sustainably harvested wood, we use minimal amounts of metal nails, nontoxic glue, and raw linseed oil (all readily biodegradable).
To ensure that our caskets are carbon neutral, we worked with the Colorado Carbon Fund to determine the carbon footprint of our caskets, from harvesting to manufacture to shipping. As it turns out, our caskets have a negative greenhouse gas footprint (-69.3 kgCO2e/casket), meaning that the total production and shipping of each casket actually removes greenhouse gases from the air - this is because of the carbon in the wood that is sequestered in the ground upon burial. Still, we have decided to offset even more greenhouse gases (500 kgCO2e/casket) by donating $10 to the carbon fund for each casket purchased. |
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