Burning Man Green House

When: April 14, 2007 11:00 AM to 03:00 PM

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What: In celebration of this year's theme, the Green Man, Burning Man is hosting a Green House to help burners green their burn! This is also your chance to meet the coordinators of our City, and learn how you can become one of the 3,000+ volunteers that create it. The event will include a recycled fashion show, music, and speakers and displays on alternative energy, grey water treatment, biodiesel, Leave No Trace practices and principles, green vehicles/RVs. Even our annual pot luck and BBQ social will be earth-friendly. After the event, we’ll all head to Ocean Beach for the Burn Platform Opening Ceremony!!

Where: 1900 3rd Street, San Franciso, CA

How: Accesable via new Muni T Third Street Line

Participate: How do you green your burn? We'd love your participation in this event!

• Calling all burners with green RV’s, all trash designers and fashionistas and all eco-performers!
• Are you an expert in playa alternative energy or greener playa cooking?
• Can you help with logistical and staging activities at the event?

Volunteers from Earth Guardians, Recycle Camp, DPW, and others will be there to help answer questions on how you can green your burn. Participate for a greener burn! Email Karina@burningman.com! to volunteer

Schedule of Events: Plan to spend the entire day at BMHQ, because like the playa, there will be a lot going on! Here’s just a sampling:

11 AM - Noon

• How to be a green burner: eco-workshops, presentations, and demonstrations on the solar powered stage plus green vehicles, and Eco-carnival, solar ovens, biodiesel distillation, water works, art and the solar powered death ray.

• Volunteer resource tables open – meet the volunteer coordinators from over 20 departments that organize our creative chaos into our city. Ask them anything, like how their department is going green. From Greeters to Artery to DPW to Rangers to Playa Info to DMV to the Geek Squad, we fuel our city on participation. WE need YOU to be part of WE to make the dream real! You’ll never be the same…
• Solar Stage: Biofuels presentations, Green Man Puppet Performance, Inconvenient Truth Talk, Peramculture, and the Tri-clops Monstrosity Band!
• Green pot luck – eat lunch earth-friendly: BYO reusable or composting cups, plates, and utensils, along with organic food to share.
• Ongoing green demonstrations indoors and out.  Check out the Trashion Bee, the Friends of Black Rock, green lighting and videos, the National LNT traveling trainers – even a hydrogen-fueled rocket!

• Eco-fashion show – get your trashion on the stage, or be trashy paparazzi!!!

3 PM - Evening

• Leave no trace at BMHQ and consider meeting at the Beach Chalet back patio for cocktails and a bite to eat, then cruise over to the 7PM burn platform inauguration @ Ocean Beach. We’ve been entrusted with this beach so treat it like the playa. Since the Park Service is running this show, please leave alcohol behind.

April 14th is a day of climate change events across the country, so don't be a spectator – become a participant! It's a great way to meet everyone, become more connected to the Burning Man community, and preserve the planet. Why not start by leaving your car at home: BMHQ is served by the NEW SF Muni T-THIRD streetcar service, Mariposa Street stop (scheduled to open April 7th).

To help with green RVs, trashion, eco-performances, demonstrations, other Green House resources or staging/logistics, please contact karina(at)burningman.com.

To volunteer for the Man, sign up NOW.See you at BMHQ!!!