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BiographyAndrew Lloyd Whitaker

Andrew Whitaker is the vice president of Great Burial Reef, Inc., based in Sarasota, Florida. He is a lifelong environmentalist, and holds an MBA from the University of Central Florida, and the coveted Certified Manager of Quality in Organizational Excellence from the American Society of Quality

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  • Admit it. You saw the headline and thought to yourself, "What could possibly be green about deathcare?" Not much, actually, but we're trying to change that. My business partner and I own a small business, we're concerned about the environment and we have tasked ourselves with the somewhat dubious mission of refocusing the American deathcare industry towards a more planet-friendly platform. We're creating a quiet revolution by building relationships with small, second and third generation family-owned funeral homes. We're climbing the walls, though, because our industry is, at best, reactionary. The deathcare industry contributes over 34 billion dollars to the nation's economy in a year's time. The average family in need doesn't see itself contributing to the economy; they are

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