It was nearly dark outside when Blaire Van Valkenburgh strode through the woods, lanterns dangling from both hands, to visit the soil that was once her husband. Blaire Van Valkenburgh scans the sky after placing lanterns around the area where her late husband’s “soil” rests in the woods outside their Washington state home on Orcas Island. Return Home CEO Micah …
How I planned my own green funeral Getty Images Recompose, the world's first human composting facility, turns a corpse into a nutrient-dense soil that the family can lay onto their garden Not many of us like talking about death. Turning a human body into soil also reminds us that "we're not adjacent to nature, we're part of nature," Spade says. …
