Better Place Forests
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 Better Place logo | |
| Company type | Privately Held Company |
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| Industry | End-of-Life |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Founder | Sandy Gibson (CEO), Brad Milne (COO), Jamie Knowlton (CFO) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
Area served | US |
Key people | John Collins (CEO) Sandy Gibson (CIO) Brad Milne (COO) |
| Website | betterplaceforests |
Better Place Forests is the company that created America's first conservation memorial forests.[1] Their forests are sustainable alternatives to cemeteries. Instead of graves and tombstones, families choose a private, protected family tree to return their ashes to the earth together.[2]
History[edit]
The San Francisco, California based company, Better Place Forests Co., was founded in 2015 by Sandy Gibson, Brad Milne and Jamie Knowlton. The company focuses on end-of-life planning and forest conservation.
As of May 2020,[3] the company had five forest locations: Point Arena, California; Santa Cruz, California; Flagstaff, Arizona; St. Croix Valley, Minnesota; and a 130-acre site in Falls Village, Connecticut.[4] In March 2021, it announced that it had purchased a 60-acre site in Ogle County, Illinois.[5]
As of July 2021, the company had raised $52 million in funding.
References[edit]
- ^ Bowles, Nellie (12 June 2019). "Could Trees Be The New Gravestones?". New York Times. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ Schwab, Katharine (20 June 2019). "This startup is building a new kind of cemetery, and it already has thousands of customers". Fast Company. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ "Our Forests". Better Place Forests. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
- ^ Olson, Emily M. (2020-11-17). "Memorial company buys a CT forest as an alternative to cemeteries". The Register Citizen. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
- ^ "Better Place Forests offers an alternative final resting place". WIFR.com. March 15, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-07-31.