Howdy friends. Welcome to my blog! Glad to stopped by.
Please check out my story, How Green was the Green Man: an Exploration of Burning Man’s Efforts to Become Environmentally Friendly. And let me know what you think!
Feel free to discuss the story here…
And don’t miss my story on Crude Awakening, Burning Man’s central art installation for 2007.
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Tags: Burning Man, Green Man
October 19, 2007 at 12:01 am |
Hi, I can’t wait to hear your comments.
October 24, 2007 at 1:43 pm |
I really enjoyed the article. You brought up a lot of good points and good ideas. It was definitely long, but very thorough. The pics were great and I liked hope you left it on a positive note and had lots of links to people being the change.
My own 2 cents: I think events like this should be bio-regional, that cuts down tremendously on transportation. When it gets big, spit it up.
October 24, 2007 at 2:17 pm |
Josh, thanks for your comment. And I agree completely with the regionalization. More fundamentally, though, what I wonder is this: is Burning Man (on a structural level) representative of the world we want to inhabit?
October 26, 2007 at 2:39 pm |
I did like your article. Got my hopes up when I read a line that promoted cycling to the event. I am the project manager for the Yellow Bike Project. I wanted you to know that this was not an isolated project in one corner of the event. Nor was it established in 07′ for the Green Theme.
In 05′ we proposed this project as an answer to the abandoned bike problem at the event. In 06′ we recycled 50 bikes from the previous year into the program. Due to support from the BMORG and a very generous donor, we where able to put 848 Yellow Bikes on site this year. I am told this is the largest community bike project per-capita ever! Thats one bike for every 55 people. This is an ongoing project and will continue to grow and promote cycling at BM and at home.
I thought you might be interested in some info on this subject. If you have other ?’s feel free to e-mail me at stinkfinger54@hotmail.com
October 29, 2007 at 12:34 pm |
Thanks for the article – the best/most detailed I’ve seen on the green theme. I was looking for photos of the exhibits in the green pavilion which was closed by the time I arrived. I still am. I agree that overall I was disappointed with the green theme. I had high hopes that I was going to come away feeling inspired by the unique mix of art and technology that BM can provide. Perhaps the most disappointing aspect was not the the efforts of the organisers but that very few theme camps (including mine, I have to admit) made any effort to be greener than in previous years.
October 9, 2008 at 10:17 am |
To go green is a process. It starts with an idea and progresses over time. Disappointment is good, since it can be a driver to do better, to make more happen. But, like most things in life, it requires continued persistence to achieve the desired goal.
I had a conversation with Josh Tickell at a Burning Man theme camp last year which I profiled on the Promethean Biofuels blog at http://prometheanbiofuels.com/blog.
Make it a better place,
Todd