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TUCSON - At 125 East Seventh Street, Peter Baer's hard at work. What looks like a plain wooden box, made from reclaimed wood, is actually a finished coffin. "There's no glue, nails, no finish, no toxic lacquers. Not a resource-intensive coffin", said Baer.

It's the afterlife, and it too is going green. The wood coffin is just one part of green burial but the coffin itself doesn't go into a cemetery. Instead it ends up in what's basically a nature conservancy.

A place where you can visit loved ones and take in some bird watching! "Visualize butterflies and visualize javelinas scattered around. That's your gift to the future.", said Arizona Green Burial's Jeneiene Schaffer.

No lavish coffin. No gravestone. Also, no embalming. "Its not allowed because embalming has a lot of toxic chemicals. All those chemicals get into our water supply", said Schaffer.

Resting in peace with little impact on the planet.

To learn more about "green" burial, click here to visit Arizona Green Burial's website.