We are all very excited about the major efforts to green the burn. Cooling Man makes it easy if you don’t have any means to do so directly. You can either volunteer your time or donate money towards making not only our playa a cleaner, safer environment but the entire world. For more information on Cooling Man visit them on the web and see how you can make a difference.

John Law might mean well and he might not. The fact is that he does not get along with his former friends these days, does not attend the event and really doesn’t care about it, or does he? Maybe he wants to preserve the fact that Burning Man belongs to it’s citizens and they will do with it what they will. After all, Burning Man has evolved so much form the early days that it is barely recognizable from it’s origins of Baker Beach, then the early days of the Black Rock desert with people shooting guns. The event has evolved for the better, it is about love and community now with a gift based economy. It is in the eye’s of it’s population a sort of utopia really. The event is it’s people and it’s people will protect the event, they always have and they always will. So bring it on, let’s see how this evolves Burning Man to the next level, it has done nothing but get better every year. Let it burn!

Greening the Burn is a movement that started years ago and has spawned two major efforts from it’s creation. The Burn Clean Project is one of the most proactive sources of information and action for greening the burn, these folks have been doing it for years. The Evolutionary Center Did everything from helping 16 tons of wood get recycled through Habitat for Humanity to raising consciousness in general through classes offered on the playa. My god, their web site is even solar powered, who can say that… Well, I guess they can.

For 2006, humble little Playa Love burned biodiesel and had our all electric surrey raising dust all over the playa. We even had a solar powered radio, it just didn’t do night time so well… Never mind that, get out that thinking cap, use radiated desert rocks (there are few out there) and get that alternative fuel going. Let’s hear what the Burning Man community has in mind for 2007.