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Greens set out to monitor Burning Man fair (Think it may contribute to "Global Warming")
UK Telegraph ^
| 9/2/06
| Catherine Elsworth
Posted on 09/02/2006 6:02:00 PM PDT by wagglebee
A counter-culture arts festival which champions alternative living is being vetted by environmentalists for its contribution to global warming.
Burning Man bans the sale of anything but ice and coffee and declares clothing optional. The festival, which is expected to draw nearly 40,000 people to the Nevada desert this week, is described as an "experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance".
It has few rules, no structure and features performances, installation art and music, which culminate in the symbolic burning of a large wooden man. A group of San Francisco scientists, calling themselves Cooling Man, have launched a project to calculate how much greenhouse gas is produced by all the camper vans, private planes, flaming temples and fire eaters that descend for a week on the Black Rock Desert, 100 miles north of Reno.
Their website enables "burners", as festival participants are known, to calculate how much greenhouse gas they are creating and encourages them to offset emissions by planting trees, investing in renewable energy and buying greenhouse gas "credits". Just the construction, transportation and burning of the 40ft, 38-ton wood and neon man releases 114 tons of greenhouse gases, the team estimates.
The aim is to make the festival "climate positive" by more than offsetting the total emissions.
"Burning Man does a great job of getting on the ground after the event and picking up every nail and speck of glitter," said David Shearer, an air quality scientist from California Environmental Associates who helped form Cooling Man.
"But we want to take that to the next level leaving no trace of greenhouse gases in the climate."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
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It's always fun to watch the leftists eat their own.
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posted on
09/02/2006 6:02:01 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
To: wagglebee
It's always fun to watch the leftists eat their own. This seems more like moonbats vs moonbats to me.
2
posted on
09/02/2006 6:12:45 PM PDT
by
DejaJude
(Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
To: wagglebee
"alternative living" = Commune Komrade.
3
posted on
09/02/2006 6:12:58 PM PDT
by
stm
(Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
To: DejaJude
Except the moonbats are basically the "mainstream" left these days.
4
posted on
09/02/2006 6:17:19 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Matter and anti-matter meeting.
5
posted on
09/02/2006 6:19:22 PM PDT
by
Dane
("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
To: wagglebee
Burning Man bans the sale of anything but ice and coffee and declares clothing optional. I'd like to see them try in February in upstate NY. These whackos need a healthy dose of reality.
6
posted on
09/02/2006 6:24:52 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: wagglebee
Burners are more free-spirit types; kind of like Deadheads, but smarter. After the Burning Man festival is over, the organizers and volunteers go over the whole area and pick up every little peice of trash and debris that gets left behind.
They've always seems a little strange, but harmless, to me.
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posted on
09/02/2006 6:29:06 PM PDT
by
Zeroisanumber
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Zeroisanumber
After the Burning Man festival is over, the organizers and volunteers go over the whole area and pick up every little peice of trash and debris that gets left behind. There's probably plenty of discarded roaches to smoke.
8
posted on
09/02/2006 6:32:07 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
Sounds a little like the "Bread and Puppet" event in Glover Vermont.
9
posted on
09/02/2006 6:41:24 PM PDT
by
ProCivitas
("Who run Bartertown?!""MasterBlaster run Bartertown!")
To: wagglebee
...And by that I mean it sounds kind of interesting and worthwhile if it emphasizes the self-sufficiency and ecology instead of the 'clothing optional' stuff.
10
posted on
09/02/2006 6:46:01 PM PDT
by
ProCivitas
("Who run Bartertown?!""MasterBlaster run Bartertown!")
To: wagglebee
Put some LSD in their soy and greens and they will love the Burning Man!!!!!!!!!
11
posted on
09/02/2006 7:10:51 PM PDT
by
therut
To: ProCivitas
This is what you call green on green. Hehehehehe.
To: Dane
It's the "Hey, look at me I'm freakier than you" fest with professional artists showing off their "government grant funded creations" just so they can burn them down. How quaint... How about doing something productive for society?
To: Blue Jays
Hi All-
The leftist hippies that attend Burning Man are very peculiar. Here are random pictures from their 2005 online gallery of some of the crackpots who attended the event. They have psychological problems:
~ Blue Jays ~
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posted on
09/02/2006 7:23:46 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: therut
I think it would have been a wise idea for them the leave the kids home
To: wagglebee
"But we want to take that to the next level leaving no trace of greenhouse gases in the climate."
Good. Start by holding your breath a##hat. Every worthless breath you take discharges "green house" gases.
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posted on
09/02/2006 7:34:12 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: wagglebee
"But we want to take that to the next level leaving no trace of greenhouse gases in the climate."
Also wants to see every green plant on Earth die too I guess.
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posted on
09/02/2006 7:35:10 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: wagglebee
[cue Christopher Lee]
"Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man."
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posted on
09/02/2006 7:42:36 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...no actual climate scientists were harmed in the making of this post.)
To: wagglebee
i love these trust fund baby eco -radicals-they all drive diesels and crnak up the a/c all summer(i drive 4-cyl vehicles,use ceiling fans,and have the thermostat at 58 on winter nights)
To: Blue Jays
Hi All-
They like being bizarre for the sake of being bizarre. If one really wanted to be counter-culture at this place, he or she would arrive wearing khaki shorts, a golf shirt, and sneakers and have a normal haircut with no tattoos or piercings. This is just a bunch of people conforming to their rebellion!
~ Blue Jays ~
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posted on
09/02/2006 7:57:01 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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