"A Swedish town is preparing to become the first to adopt a radical new form of environmentally friendly funeral. Invented by ecologists keen to connect funerals with the organic environment, the process sees bodies frozen in liquid nitrogen, then broken into dust." BBC | learn more about Promessa Organic
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Press release, september 2005
GREEN APPLE AWARDS
The Green Organisation nominated Promessa for the International Green Apple Environmental Award.
"The judges have made their decisions and Promessa definitely will be receiving one of the coveted Green Apple Environment Awards".
The awards will be presented in presentation ceremony at The House of Commons, Tuesday, November 8, 2005. The day event will be hosted by Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Health, UK.
The Green Organisation is an English, independent, non-political, non-activist, non-profit environment group dedicated to promoting the positive side of environmental endeavour. They are best known for organising The International Green Apple Environment Award campaigns - one for environmental best practice, and one for enhancing our built environment and architectural heritage.
Their work began in1994 and experience has shown that many have followed the examples of environmental best practice demonstrated by the Green Apple Award winners.
The Swedish Promessa Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to apply knowledge to improve the organic circle of life. Based on the principles of the organic life cycle Promessa has developed an environmentally friendly form of burial that fully considers the biological realities to which a corpse is subjected (Promession). Today Promession is the only method of burial that contributes to the organic life cycle.
For more information please contact The Green Organisation.
Kind regards,
Andric van Es
Promessa Foundation
E-mail: [email protected]
www.promessafoundation.org
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