About CoolingMan

CoolingMan is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization with the mission of building bridges between climate science, art and community. To do so, CoolingMan supports climate-related artworks, and helps events, groups and individuals take direct actions to reduce emissions.

Mission

CoolingMan's mission is to build bridges between the climate science and art communities, and inspire direct climate action by groups and individuals.

Activities

CoolingMan activities include:

• Offsetting GHG Emissions from Art and Events
  CoolingMan estimates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cultural events and helps obtain a greater amount of GHG offsets to more than neutralize these emissions. Since offsets exceed emissions, events become 'carbon negative, climate positive,' and participants extend the gift economy by 'cooling it forward.'
  
  Event Offset Projects >>

• Supporting Climate-Related Artworks
  CoolingMan works to bring the creative and persuasive powers of the artistic community to bear on the challenge of climate change by providing ideas and funding for artworks exploring climate related themes.
  
  Climatic Art Projects >>

Organization

The CoolingMan Project was founded in 2005 by a group of environmental consultants in San Francisco. The CoolingTeam of volunteers manage the organization and its projects.

The CoolingTeam >> | Volunteer >>

CoolingMan is a project of the Trust for Conservation Innovation (TCI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations to TCI/CoolingMan are tax deductible.

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Philosophy

CoolingMan can itself be thought of as a community climatic art work exploring:

• Extension of Gift Economy:
  Because CoolingMan more than offsets GHG emissions, participants are 'cooling it forward' for others, extending the Black Rock City gift economy to the 'real' world.

• Physical Transformation of Spiritual Energies:
  CoolingMan's GHG reductions represent a unique transformation of the positive energy and intention generated by Burning Man into actual physical form.

• Transmission of Playa Concepts:
  Burning Man concepts have changed many everyday lives. Growth in CoolingMan participation will provide one quantitative measure of the rate of such transmission.