Environmental Solutions To Be On Display at Burning Man 2007 Invitation to showcase emerging technologies
This summer, Burning Man will hold its twenty-second annual event in the vast and remote Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Forty thousand participants from around the world, including more than 100 journalists, will attend this celebration of creativity. The year's theme, "The Green Man", explores the human relationship to nature, in particular our collective response to global warming, and sets the stage for an unprecedented informational exchange.
In recognition of this unique opportunity, Burning Man is inviting artists, inventors, developers, and scientists to showcase their emerging environmental technologies at this year's eight day event, August 27th - September 3rd.
At the center of Black Rock City, home to Burning Man, will be the Green Man Pavilion, 30,000 square feet of shaded exhibition space for the display of interactive, artistic, scientific and educational models, a "World's Fair" of cutting edge technologies. Our goal is to create a space where breakthrough ideas and proven technologies addressing environmental issues such as energy production, solid waste management, and remediation of toxic substances, can be displayed and interacted with, against the backdrop of the world's largest participant-created event. In fact, we believe this exposition may well be the only place in the world where such a wide range of technologies and solutions will be on display in an interactive environment.
Burning Man has long been recognized as a nexus of ideas, information, and culture, a physical collection of human nodes for interactivity and information exchange. It is a place where artists, innovators, early adopters, CEOs, and the media share ideas and network like nowhere else on Earth.
In addition to directly reaching participants and through extensive media coverage, Burning Man will be opened to the world through a unique collaboration with Google, in a virtual 3D version of event called "Burning Man Earth", which will allow a global audience to experience the Green Man pavilion.
We're already received considerable interest for participation from alternative energy manufacturers. In fact, at the conclusion of the festival, the solar power system that will be used to create the energy for the Green Man Pavilion will be redeployed as part of a larger solar project to generate carbon-free energy in the local town of Gerlach. Our long-term goal: make Gerlach the first town on the planet that creates more green energy than it uses.
what i am curious about, what does 'showcase' mean? are businesses going to be allowed to present thier products? if so, and this is only an if because i dont know, but do you think that should be allowed?
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