Carbon Emissions from Burning Man

August 17th, 2007 Alex

Here is a nice chart I found on Valleywag that was from CoolingMan that I cant seem to find on the site. They also discussed the carbon emissions that Burning Man produces. Burning Man creates 27,000 tons of carbon dioxide in the air. Not surprisingly 87% of the emissions comes from the travel to the actual event. Any big event will have people travelling to it and cause emissions from planes and cars and there really isn’t anything we can do to change that. For example, the Live Earth event promoted by Al Gore was an event that brought artists and celebrities to 9 different locations to perform for the sake of promoting a stop to global warming.  All the people who went to the concert needed to drive and fly there so the event technically created more carbon dioxide in the air but the cause will hopefully make a difference in creating less carbon emissions. The good thing about the Burning Man event is that they are doing something about it and that they are aware of their carbon footprint and I think that is something that all organizations and corporations need to do. It is important for everyone to be aware of the issues.

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