Sustainable Living - and Dying

Are you the kind that takes public transportation instead of driving, doesn’t waste water, recycles and composts? Well how about composting yourself? That’s precisely what artists Jae Rhim Lee and Mike Ma now offer you with their mushroom-based burial suit. Many have recognized that cremation contributes to climate change and reacted by offering green burials, which however don’t prevent chemicals in your body (like pesticides or mercury) from polluting our soil. So why not leverage our nature-given master decomposers - mushrooms; they thought. Brilliant! The biggest challenge however isn’t actually figuring out the science - they have, it’s rather our cultural fear and resulting ignorance about death. So let’s use the burial suit as an invitation to start thinking and talking about the acceptance of death and our personal responsibility for environmental sustainability while alive - and dead. Shipping starts summer 2016, so who’s signing up with me?

 

Lida-Maria Lottko

Lida is a big fan of the human race. Originally from Germany, she has lived and worked in the US, Europe, Brazil and China. She digs deep into what people really want (even when they can't quite put their finger on it yet) and enables FTSE100s, NGOs, governments and startups consequently to find the right ways to delight their customers and employees alike. 

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lidamarialottko
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