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Burning Man’s Green Aspirations - Part II

We’d been waiting for what seemed like hours, uncomfortably seated, shoulder-to-shoulder on a gritty lake-bed. Tense anticipation was rapidly dissolving into indifference, while the never-ending stream of deafening electronic music assailed us from every direction. The Man stood impassively in the midst of this: a giant, neon-green effigy looming over a half-mile ring of what must have been every fire dancer in North America. It was the only time at Burning Man

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Burning Man’s Green Aspirations - Part I

Last week, 46,000 revelers finally broke camp and split the scene of this year’s Burning Man festival, The Green Man. You could call it the "biggest party in the world," though it defies categorization and convention: part art, music, rave, pyrotechnics show, and costume orgy, it’s probably the only place in America you’d see a 1,000-foot-tall mushroom cloud intended for politically-minded artistic expression.

Yep, that’s right - a 1,000 ft. mushroom cloud, and no,

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