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thanks!
After Burning Man this year so many people have been excited about what's happening with the theme for 2007, the Green Man, sharing ideas, and wanting to know what Burning Man is doing to be more green and exemplify the theme- as well as where to go with their ideas. So many people have come to me directly (when they should be looking into what department at BM their project idea fits into and filling out a volunteer form off the BM website, rather than asking a passionate volunteer like myself.) I asked for a meeting at BMHQ with the people this all started with in my world- Blue and Camera Girl. They brought in Tom Price, Burners with out Boarders coordinator who had just gotten the go ahead from members of the BM board to help this group move forward faster - with out the red tape. The four of us have been coming up with a plan on how to organize ourselves and our collectives greening powers more efficiently.
Some thing we would like to invite you to is to help out with developing a template for each Burning Man Department to go through and evaluate how green they can be starting with where they are. This can also be helpful in your own life, business, events, and home. A greening template- building off all the ideas explored in the past year on the discussion list, and beyond that with the other amazing organizations, camps, and activities people have been involved in. Please send your template notes back to me and I'll compile them and go over them at the next meeting you are all invited to.
This is the time to bring it in and make what BM is doing for their greening efforts more accountable and tangible this year!! After a couple meetings we think it's time to get more community moving and working together.
We invite you to the....
Semi-Monthly meeting, ie: Green Working Group (GWG) every other Monday at 6pm in SF! come join!!
For directions please RSVP so we know how many people will be coming and be better prepared.
If needed we can arrange some conference calls out of this... just hollar if you are interested!! Also let's car pool and go the biking/ public transit rout (I live in Marin!)
We also want to know how many remote folks are interested
in attending so we can figure out if we need to use the conference
bridge or webcast stuff... so please let us know if you are going to be there for these Monday night meetings.
We will be exploring the greening department templates along with many other pieces at our next Greeners Working Group (GWG) next Monday Dec. 4th at 6pm (west coast time), and every other Monday after that.
Here are some major pieces that we will be moving forward with, and the leaders of those projects- (GWG is everyone who shows up and is committed)
1. Projects Template-
Identify the project, what research and resources are needed, what is already available, what BM dept. this falls in, volunteers on board, project coordinator contact info, etc. Blue is sending out a template for this via example project he is taking on: the LED lights at Porta-potties. (Blue leading)
2. The BM Departments self evaluation sheet. (GWG)
3. BM's website Environmental section launch (Camera Girl leading)
4. identify FAQ's for the website. (GWG)
5. Environmental showcase/ event in the Spring, Sunday April 8th -
following the town hall meeting. (kachina katrina, blue, camera girl, and $teven Raspa/ BM's special event team)
6. Community Lectures/ workshops @ BMHQ - for staff and community (Tom Price leading)
7. Identify goals:
meta goals for event, DPW, Ethos/ measurable, community workshops. (GWG)
8. Continuing on with the encouragement of meeting and discussions- using E-Playa more (is anyone interested in using that and being a voice from this discussion group?)
9. Clean Fuels Transpo (GWG with input/ resources from this list- including the trains discussion, kachina katrina, camera girl)
10. Sharing info/ resources for camping more efficiently and lighter on the Earth with the Theme Camps (Tom Price, kachina katrina, GWG)
11. Having fun in this whole process!! (Everybody!!)
Thank you all for your thoughts, discussions, ambitions, and goals. These are some of the first things this GWG will be meeting about to continue with the organization so the wheels aren't squeaky. There are a lot of projects that will be explored through out this year, Blue and Tom Price will be recording them and going over what departments project coordinators should check into (the ones who bring the idea up is usually the coordinator, unless you have someone readily available to do that work.) DIY community and let's do it together!!
thanks for your time :)
--
Kachina Katrina*
Community Organizer
Evolutionary Center Coordinator
www.EvolutionaryCenter.net
"Faith comes from the heart, or perhaps chi- that center of will in our being." - Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence
"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower... Drives my green age. " Poet Dylan Thomas.
thanks!
After Burning Man this year so many people have been excited about what's happening with the theme for 2007, the Green Man, sharing ideas, and wanting to know what Burning Man is doing to be more green and exemplify the theme- as well as where to go with their ideas. So many people have come to me directly (when they should be looking into what department at BM their project idea fits into and filling out a volunteer form off the BM website, rather than asking a passionate volunteer like myself.) I asked for a meeting at BMHQ with the people this all started with in my world- Blue and Camera Girl. They brought in Tom Price, Burners with out Boarders coordinator who had just gotten the go ahead from members of the BM board to help this group move forward faster - with out the red tape. The four of us have been coming up with a plan on how to organize ourselves and our collectives greening powers more efficiently.
Some thing we would like to invite you to is to help out with developing a template for each Burning Man Department to go through and evaluate how green they can be starting with where they are. This can also be helpful in your own life, business, events, and home. A greening template- building off all the ideas explored in the past year on the discussion list, and beyond that with the other amazing organizations, camps, and activities people have been involved in. Please send your template notes back to me and I'll compile them and go over them at the next meeting you are all invited to.
This is the time to bring it in and make what BM is doing for their greening efforts more accountable and tangible this year!! After a couple meetings we think it's time to get more community moving and working together.
We invite you to the....
Semi-Monthly meeting, ie: Green Working Group (GWG) every other Monday at 6pm in SF! come join!!
For directions please RSVP so we know how many people will be coming and be better prepared.
If needed we can arrange some conference calls out of this... just hollar if you are interested!! Also let's car pool and go the biking/ public transit rout (I live in Marin!)
We also want to know how many remote folks are interested
in attending so we can figure out if we need to use the conference
bridge or webcast stuff... so please let us know if you are going to be there for these Monday night meetings.
We will be exploring the greening department templates along with many other pieces at our next Greeners Working Group (GWG) next Monday Dec. 4th at 6pm (west coast time), and every other Monday after that.
Here are some major pieces that we will be moving forward with, and the leaders of those projects- (GWG is everyone who shows up and is committed)
1. Projects Template-
Identify the project, what research and resources are needed, what is already available, what BM dept. this falls in, volunteers on board, project coordinator contact info, etc. Blue is sending out a template for this via example project he is taking on: the LED lights at Porta-potties. (Blue leading)
2. The BM Departments self evaluation sheet. (GWG)
3. BM's website Environmental section launch (Camera Girl leading)
4. identify FAQ's for the website. (GWG)
5. Environmental showcase/ event in the Spring, Sunday April 8th -
following the town hall meeting. (kachina katrina, blue, camera girl, and $teven Raspa/ BM's special event team)
6. Community Lectures/ workshops @ BMHQ - for staff and community (Tom Price leading)
7. Identify goals:
meta goals for event, DPW, Ethos/ measurable, community workshops. (GWG)
8. Continuing on with the encouragement of meeting and discussions- using E-Playa more (is anyone interested in using that and being a voice from this discussion group?)
9. Clean Fuels Transpo (GWG with input/ resources from this list- including the trains discussion, kachina katrina, camera girl)
10. Sharing info/ resources for camping more efficiently and lighter on the Earth with the Theme Camps (Tom Price, kachina katrina, GWG)
11. Having fun in this whole process!! (Everybody!!)
Thank you all for your thoughts, discussions, ambitions, and goals. These are some of the first things this GWG will be meeting about to continue with the organization so the wheels aren't squeaky. There are a lot of projects that will be explored through out this year, Blue and Tom Price will be recording them and going over what departments project coordinators should check into (the ones who bring the idea up is usually the coordinator, unless you have someone readily available to do that work.) DIY community and let's do it together!!
thanks for your time :)
--
Kachina Katrina*
Community Organizer
Evolutionary Center Coordinator
www.EvolutionaryCenter.net
"Faith comes from the heart, or perhaps chi- that center of will in our being." - Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence
"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower... Drives my green age. " Poet Dylan Thomas.
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