Today I spent most of the day polishing and massaging the new website that I've been working on for a while. It is called Novaterium, a made-up word based on 'nova' meaning new, and 'cometerium' which is a tract of land used for burials. It is a worldwide directory of green funeral options.
Over a year ago, Rory Rickwood, a Human Resources professional from Canada, lost his father who was a bit of an 'eco-warrior' and Rory wanted to give him an environmentally sound send off. But he couldn't find any green funeral choices in his area... but he did find this blog, where I've been mentioning Promession for a while, a 'composting burial' technology. He contacted me and asked if Promession was available yet, and I had to tell him it still hadn't been launched commercially, but was at least a year away, and would first be available in Sweden and South Korea.
So earlier this year, Rory contacted me and asked me how much I wanted to promote green funerals. I was, as you'd expect, enthusiastic. He suggested that we could co-operatively start a website with information about the issues and a directory of goods, services and 'natural burial' sites around the world. So, since then we've been working on it, using the professional services of Jim and Jamie at Semlyen IT. Today, the website went live. The worldwide directory is still being populated... it's a very slow job, involving two mapping websites and pretty laborious cutting and pasting of co-ordinates. The website is dedicated to Rory's Dad.
I got a couple of emails from people who either received the Press Release that Rory sent out, or have a 'Google Alert' on one or more of the key words. One was from the Netherlands, the other from an operator of several UK woodland burial sites.
I did nothing but add these sites to the maps today. Adding one site takes between 20 and 40 minutes. If any reader of this blog knows of a 'green funeral solution' which ought to be on this website, please send me the details.
I had already made a facebook page for the site, and I clicked 'publish' today, and by midnight there were already 19 fans on this page. My next job is to send out the Press Release to UK recipients.
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I spent most of the day re-writing an email into two web pages to send off to my new colleague in Canada, and he'll make those into good looking web pages (I hope!!!) and then these will be delivered to our website techies.
I had several distractions but it was lovely to see Charles and his son; Charles came round ostensibly to try to get his head around the different eco-ways to make his house warmer and generate power and hot water. But we ended up chatting about sculpture and all sorts of things. He also helped me take the old sofa up to the loft so there is now space for the new (OK, second-hand!) futon which Gill found in the back of the Press.
So, by midnight the writing was done. I do look forward to sharing this with blog readers.
I had several distractions but it was lovely to see Charles and his son; Charles came round ostensibly to try to get his head around the different eco-ways to make his house warmer and generate power and hot water. But we ended up chatting about sculpture and all sorts of things. He also helped me take the old sofa up to the loft so there is now space for the new (OK, second-hand!) futon which Gill found in the back of the Press.
So, by midnight the writing was done. I do look forward to sharing this with blog readers.
