QUEST Documentaries

Green Burials and California's High Speed Rail (1x4)

: 27, 2007

* Tired of toxic embalming fluid, rainforest wood caskets and other ecologically unfriendly practices, a new generation of undertakers is attempting to green up the funeral industry with burials that go easy on the land. * State transportation planners have nearly finished designing a high-tech bullet train system that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two hours at 220 mph - faster than a Ferrari. But will California voters pay for it? * Ladybug Ladybug Fly Away Home! Each year Ladybugs fly in by the millions to winter in the East Bay's Redwood Regional Park. We meet naturalist Linda Yemoto who explains this phenomenon, but how these beetles know where to go is still one of nature's mysteries.