Besides standing at the forefront of the green industry (Solyndra notwithstanding), the Bay Area also leads a burgeoning movement to reduce the environmental impact of death. You can be buried in a cardboard box in Mill Valley, or train to prepare un-embalmed bodies for home funerals in Sebastopol. Yet there's one segment of society that whose passing will always leave a significant carbon footprint — the immigrant families who fly their deceased back home via... More >>>