“You don't have a surplus of slugs… you have a deficiency of ducks!” Bill Mollison, Permaculture
WHAT IS THE BOOM FESTIVAL
• Boom Festival is produced in Portugal since 1997 by the Good Mood – Eco & Art Org • Biennial Festival • Independent Culture and Artistic Expression • Celebration, Education, Knowledge, Art
Boom Festival is… MULTICULTURAL
• Network of 90 Boom Ambassadors in 51 countries • In 2010 was attended by 20,000 people from 70 countries
How To Turn a Problem Into a Solution? How to Turn a Problem into Art?
Boom Festival is… ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS
• The BEP aims to develop environmental responses to the challenges of human communities • Program with 3 areas of action: (1) contact with nature, (2) technologies and (3) artistic awareness
SANITATION
• First 20 composting toilets in 2006 • 90 units in the 2008 edition (40% of the festival toilets) • In 2010, 98% of composting toilets: - 159 composting (no water) toilets were constructed - 15 permanent composting (no water) toilets were constructed.
WATER TREATMENT Showers, restaurants and public can spend up to one million liters of water per day
Project to clean up all the water consumed at the Boom Festival
Waste water treatment based on Bio-remediation
BIO-CONSTRUCTIONS • Construction of infrastructures with both natural building techniques and eco-materials
Bamboo, adobe, cane, straw bales, super adobe, vertical gardens
GOALS ‘Your Oil Is Music’ ‐ Environmental Imperative ‐ Reducing Costs of Fuel ‐ Communitarian Project ‐ Engage the Audience ‐ Maximize Communication
ENERGY • Project “Your Oil Is Music”: Use of 45.000 lt of vegetable oil as biofuel
Reduction of 117,000 kg of CO2 to the atmosphere
“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” ― Bill Mollison