Day: November 21, 2011

In United States being ecologically friendly became so popular so even funeral services started to turn “green”. Funeral services typically do not offer new innovative products, as the ways of burring people did not change much since few centuries ago. However some of them as Jeff Edwards, owner of Edwards Funeral Service in Columbus introduced a new way of putting remains of human into in urn, which is called alkaline hydrolysis. Using this new method only very small amount of carbon dioxide is produced compare to usual cremation, also it has many benefits over burring in coffin, as it is more affordable. However there is one serious problem which does not allow Jeff to expand his business, the government of Ohio and several other states have made alkaline hydrolysis illegal as they wrongly believe that only bones of the person remain for the urn after the process, rest of the body is gone with liquid in the drain.

While Jeff is in a legal battle with Ohio government the demand for the green funeral business is growing, more and more families across the US started to consider ecologically friendly burials, the number of funeral services offering ecologically friendly options for burials dramatically increased since few years ago.

Obviously the traditions and the conservatism of this industry may make it hard for the eco-friendly options to become popular, but there is no reason why some industries should become green and others should not. Being ecologically friendly is not a trend, it is a necessity, why should not something as big and old as funeral services become a part of it.

Read More: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-greening-of-death-11032011.html

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In a response to Darren’s Blog Post I would like to say that I totally agree that Apple is one of the most legendary entrepreneur companies in the business history. The reason for it is the genius of Steve Jobs. He was the one who came up with idea which revolutionized the world. When Apple was organized, Jobs did not understand much in computers, but he perfectly understood what people wanted – that’s how one of the first personal computers was created.

Even when Steve Jobs left the company for a long time, he still was successful in being an entrepreneur, for example one of the World’s most famous animation studio Pixar is partly Steve’s creation.

It can be argued that Steve Jobs part in creating Apple is overestimated, because it was not actually him who built the computers, it was other Steve, Steve Wozniak, and there were many other people who made Apple successful.

However without a doubt Steve Jobs was the person who saved Apple from failure in 1990s, he was the one to make company one of the most successful companies in World.

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