The Greening of Burning Man
Many of the readers of this blog will know exactly what this refers to.
The annual Burning Man festival out on the playa in Nevada took place last week, finishing on Labor Day. For the uninitiated, check out the links below - I can't begin to explain it, even if I understood it myself!
This year's theme is "The Greening" of Burning Man. This year the "Burners" tried to become the first Carbon Negative city on the planet. Check out the Cooling Man link here.
Sadly, we weren't in a position to send coolers over to Burning Man this year, but next year...however,
...as a result of his success in the TreeHugger.com competition, Vinay Gupta was invited to build one of his Hexayurt shelters in the central pavillion area of the Burning Man camp. Vinay generously (very much in the spirit of Burning Man) invited us to include a poster display of the SleepBreeze personal cooler.
With Baby Tom still (?! ) making huge in-roads into the time we have to spend on the business we managed to get a poster together (in between feeds). So, thanks to the staff at Kinko's in Reno for helping out, and Lyndsey Darby for picking the poster up and taking it out on to the playa..
This in mind, it is somewhat sad that an individual decided that it would be a good idea to torch the "Burning Man" a few days early. So, the pavillion , located beneath the "Burnt Man", the Hexyarurt and our modest poster, were pretty much out of bounds.
In the meantime we hope that all the Burners had a weird and whacky time out on the playa. Hope that we can help you "chill out" next year.
Andy & Jill