Sakura Urban Studio has closed at 425 Mass Ave, eight months after expanding and relocating there from its previous location at 715 Mass Ave. Owner Theresa Goodwin now has a studio at the Stutz Business Center, and is continuing her on-line business in custom-made handbags at www. sakuraurban. com.
The Mass Ave area should be littered with fewer renegade grocery carts, once Marsh the Marketplace completes a plan to install a wheel-locking system which makes carts inoperable once they cross over a magnetic strip to be placed at all exits to the property at Lockerbie Place.
Barbara Milton, certified celebrant and vice-president for community relations for the Buchanan Group, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Green Burial Council, a national nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally sustainable death care and the use of burial as a means of protecting natural areas.
“Barb is the kind of leader we hope to see more of in this field,” said Joe Sehee, executive director of the GBC. “She’s completely committed to making funeral service better meet the needs of families as well as the planet.”
Milton is involved in a variety of “green” programs for Buchanan Group, including the conducting of seminars about Kessler Woods in the Washington Park North Funeral Center and Cemetery.
The funeral company also operates its own Gift of Life program, where Flanner and Buchanan plants a seedling in the Hoosier National Forest in memory of every person whose funeral is handled by the firm.
“We have already planted hundreds of trees in our cemeteries,” she added. “Our motto for a long time has been ‘Community, Commitment, and Compassion.’ The natural burials embrace our belief in conservation and preservation,” Milton continued. “Much like we facilitated cremation for our Indiana consumers in 1904, Flanner and Buchanan is poised to facilitate natural burial for our environmentally committed Indiana families from today forward.”
Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP, a leading environmental law firm in the Midwest, has been named a member of the Green Business Initiative of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.
According to the Chamber, members of the Green Business Initiative must be, at minimum, a bronze member of the Central Indiana Clean Air Partnership; take a pledge to meet all local, state, and federal environmental regulations and continually work toward environmentally safe and sustainable business practices and operations.
Members must also demonstrate green business practices in an array of areas, including waste prevention and reduction, recycling, energy and water conservation, transportation, and purchasing.
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