Green Man

August 16th, 2007 Alex

I am not sure how many people are actually fans of this blog, but I have not been posting as many posts recently because I have busy with other things. One of those was confirming my late interest in going to Burning Man. I am finally confirmed to go with four other people in an RV and it will be my first time at Burning Man. It should be a pretty fun and exciting trip. What sparked my interest was the fact that this year’s theme was “The Green Man.” “Our theme concerns humanity’s relationship to nature. Do we, as conscious beings, exist outside of nature’s sway, or does its force impel us and inform the central root of who and what we are?” Previous Burning Man events have always been relatively environmentally conscious as it takes place in a desert and the goal is to not leave any traces behind. Every year, tens of thousands of people go to Black Rock City in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada for this week of self-expression and exploration of art. At the end of the week, everything gets burned. All the art exhibits, galleries, and whatever interesting creations were built. Burning things is not exactly environmentally friendly, but it is sort of a good way to get rid of it to not leave anything behind that could possibly cause more damage? They are however going to be calculating the carbon footprint  created from the creating and burning of everything at the event. The organization will plan to offset the carbon footprint by sponsoring offsets. There is also plenty of carbon footprint created from everyone who drives their cars and RV to the event and they encourage people to help measure their own footprint at http://www.coolingman.org/.

This year should have plenty of artistic inventive creations that I am very excited to check out. I will make sure to take plenty of pictures to cover some of the more interesting creations. The impression of Burning Man from one of my friends is that it is pretty much a bunch of people all on drugs with naked guys running around. I will have to experience the Burning Man myself and hopefully prove her wrong.

http://burningman.com/

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