Creativity & Innovation
TAKING THE CITY GRID & OPERATIONS OFF FOSSIL FUELS
IT WAS A PIVOTAL YEAR FOR BURNING MAN PROJECT’S SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS, SHOWCASING EXCITING RESULTS AS WE MAKE PROGRESS TOWARDS THE GOALS LAID OUT IN OUR 2030 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ROADMAP TO:
- HANDLE WASTE ECOLOGICALLY
- BE REGENERATIVE
- BE CARBON NEGATIVE
A MORE EFFICIENT CITY POWER GRID KEPT CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RUNNING
Efficiencies gained from a more sustainable power grid kept BRC’s critical infrastructure resilient through two rain events. We created smaller power grids, and coupled most grids with batteries. When the rain grounded fuel trucks, none of our grids went down — because they required less fuel.
EIGHT MOBILE SOLAR PROTOTYPES POWERED:
- The Man Pavillion
- The Temple
- Center Camp
- Gate
- Department of Mutant Vehicles
- Ranger Outpost Zero
… and supported 17 art installations.
“INVISIBLE MOOP AND THE NET-ZERO” ON THE BURNING MAN LIVE PODCAST
George B Reed III, Associate Director of Burning Man Project’s Director of Regeneration, shares stories of how Black Rock citizens are preventing and reversing damage to the climate. LISTEN NOW >
THE GREEN CORRIDOR
We launched The Green Corridor, an experimental neighborhood that extended from the Esplanade & 3:45 to Frogbat & 3:45. The 10 participating camps showcased sustainability initiatives in six key infrastructure areas: Power, Water, Food, Waste, Shelter, and Transportation.
GOING SOLAR, by Profiles in Dust, features projects that are contributing to a net zero Black Rock City. WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY >
TALES OF DREAMERS: In recent years, volunteers from the International Wood Culture Society have made several feature-length documentaries about Black Rock City. Their latest film profiles sustainability efforts in BRC. WATCH NOW >
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PROJECTS LEADING THE WAY
WE ARE COLLABORATING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO PROTOTYPE IMPROVED SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES ON PLAYA AND AT OUR YEAR-ROUND OPERATIONS IN NEVADA.
“There’s an opportunity here with the Burning Man event to utilize it as a platform for lifting the voices who are already into sustainability, but also educating other people about sustainability and what that looks like both at the event and outside of it in the default world.”
~ KAT NADEL, COMPOST PROJECT LEAD
RENEWABLES FOR ARTISTS TEAM (RAT) educates and mentors artists and camps on adopting solar power. In their second year on playa, RAT mentored 27 art projects and three camps, up from 12 projects in 2022.
THE COMPOST PROGRAM, hosted at IDEATE, diverted approximately 5,000 gallons (or 25 yards) of food waste to a composting facility. Four hundred camps participated, representing 16,000 Black Rock citizens.
A GREEN THEME CAMP COMMUNITY project, Burner Leadership for Sustainable Theme Camps (BLAST) is a green camp rating system that mentors environmentally sustainable camps. BLAST assessed 16 camps on playa.
TALES OF DREAMERS: In recent years, volunteers from the International Wood Culture Society have made several feature-length documentaries about Black Rock City. Their latest film profiles sustainability efforts in BRC. WATCH NOW >
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