Jack Rabbit Speaks
Volume 10, Issue 30
August 21, 2006
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE - PLEASE READ!
This one's quite possibly the most important JRS you'll read this year,
and we hope you will read it carefully, and think about it as you're
planning and packing this week. Veterans and new folks alike will
benefit from this information.
This issue's dedicated to information about the environment at Burning
Man. You're about to embark on a trip to one of the most beautiful and
remote locations you'll ever visit, and as you prepare, these are
important things to think about. The choices you make about how to live
in Black Rock City for a week have a very big impact, in how we leave
the desert, the future of Burning Man, how you deal with your trash on
the way home...AND how we must live with the decisions we make regarding
fuel, wood, recycling, and our portion of the global footprint after the
event. This JRS brings you important reminders about those topics, just
in time to pack the car. Regular issue up later this week...the event
starts in less than seven days.
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MAKE A PLAN TO LEAVE NO TRACE AT BURNING MAN
Once you've passed the Gate and the Greeters, you are already a
participant and a contributor to a very large artwork: the wonderful
disappearing city. Leaving no trace of Black Rock City is enormously
significant - that's what gets us the OK to return to the playa every
year - and it's also a matter of simple details, one step at a time. If
you put some Leave No Trace planning into your camp, your week on the
playa will likely be easier, cleaner, and healthier.
The Earth Guardians have been collecting and recording LNT tips for
playa living. Visit their website at:
http://www.tonyandkarina.us/eg/index.htm
Here are our top ten LNT reminders
1) CAMP SMARTER, NOT HARDER, PREPARE A LEAVE NO TRACE PLAN
2) If it doesn't come out of your body it doesn't go into the Potty.
3) RESPECT, RETHINK, REDUCE, REUSE, RECYLE AND RESTORE!
4) NEVER LET IT HIT THE GROUND (INCLUDING GREY WATER)
5) CLEAN AS YOU GO! & SECURE ITEMS FROM THE WIND
6) CONSIDER whether your gift is more likely to become MOOP than a
keepsake. Give smart.
7) BE A LNT GOOD NEIGHOR, LEND A HAND, CARRY A MOOP BAG
8) GRID YOUR CAMP BEFORE YOU LEAVE
9) Prepare for the Hungry Wind - Secure your load, especially your trash
10) VOLUNTEER FOR CLEAN UP WITH DPW
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THE PRINCIPLES OF LEAVE NO TRACE
It takes thousands of people to create a disappearing city, and the
how-to lore keeps growing. The Earth Guardians collect good ideas from
camps and citizens, mix in Leave No Trace principles, and pass them
along. Not only will you reduce the Matter Out Of Place ("MOOP"), you'll
make your camp life easier and more pleasant.
Leave No Trace Principles - We have embraced these seven LNT principles
as the largest LNT event in the world. The Leave No Trace Organization
has more information on their website: http://www.lnt.org .
1. Plan Ahead and Prepare
2. Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
3. Dispose of Waste Properly
4. Minimize Campfire Impacts
5. Be Considerate of Other Visitors
6. Leave What You Find
7. Respect Wildlife
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LNT Principle 1 -Plan Ahead and Prepare
Plan Ahead with a LNT plan, like
http://www.tonyandkarina.us/eg/burning_lnt_samplelntplan.htm
Pick a Leave No Trace leader for your camp, a "MOOP czar". This person
will work LNT into your planning and preparing, help set up the camp so
that it doesn't blow away, help to plan your camp's cleanup and
break-down ahead of time, handle the question of stinky trash, gray
water disposal, and what NOT to burn .
Plan to Reduce Kitchen Waste: Plan simple, easy-cooking, low-dishwashing
meals. Bring two-thirds the food you think you'll need. Prepare and
freeze meals in ziploc bags. Repackage and prepare food in advance.
Bring water in big reusable plastic container and bring reusable cups,
utensils, bowls or plates, not Styrofoam that will blow all over the
playa. Ask visitors to your camp to BYOM (bring your own mug) and take
your own mug to the Center Camp Cafe. A carabiner or shower hook easily
secures it for transport around the City. Many fashionable bars also
appreciate BYOMers!
Here's food wisdom from a decade on the playa:
http://www.burningman.com/on_the_playa/garbage_recycling/lighter_trash.html
Plan to Recycle- Buy only aluminum cans and plan to take aluminum cans
to Recycle Camp. There are many good beers in cans! Check out
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/drinks.html to
find some.
Separate and sort kitchen trash. Collect food waste in a mesh bag. The
food will dry up, becoming light and nearly odorless. Easy! Plan on
burning paper and wood in a community burn platform.
Plan your camp to minimize clean-up efforts. Don't wait until the end
of the week to pick stuff up . Clean as you go. This will help you from
getting overwhelmed by the mess and help keep trash from blowing out of
reach. Plan to seal the small amount of trash you have left in big
plastic bags, or in five-gallon buckets with lids, to take home, or, if
you must, drop off some trash in local landfills.
http://www.burningman.com/on_the_playa/garbage_recycling/take_trash.html
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LNT Principle 2 -Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
Winter rains help erase our tracks on the playa, but dust from driving
affects people right away. Keep auto speeds under 5 mph in Black Rock
City, and drive only on obvious, marked roads. Avoid the Hot Springs
during the event. These delicate ecosystems cannot handle the volume of
visitors that use during the event would create.
Camp Structures and Shelters. Plan your structure to be able to
withstand the extreme conditions on the playa and be reusable. Stake
your tents and structures so they will stay secure in the heavy wind,
rain, and dust storms that are sudden and usual on the playa.
Recycle Your Structure: Plan your camp around reusing your structure
each year. If you reuse and repurpose the basic framework for your
camp's structure, you can still reconfigure it to give your camp a new
look and feel each year and save money!
Do not dig holes in the playa. Small postholes (6 inches or less in
diameter) used for structural support are the sole exception and must be
properly tamped and tilled when you are finished with them. Larger holes
easily erode within a year's time even when carefully backfilled. They
leave a visible mark and create a serious safety hazard.
Keep your vehicle from dripping oil or other fluids on to the playa.
BLM did a study on this a few years ago and asked burners to use pans or
other barriers under their cars, especially older cars, to prevent drips.
Always use a potty for your body waste - not the playa.
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LNT Principle 3 -Dispose of Waste Properly
If it doesn't come out of your body it doesn't go into the Potty. Only
single-ply toilet paper and human waste can go in the potties. Anything
else can cause a clog when the toilet vendor empties the tank through a
two-inch hose, otherwise we have unserviced potties, and that means
trouble.
How will you dispose of your grey water from your kitchen and shower?
Our permit from BLM does NOT allow us to dump grey water directly on the
playa.
- Camps can collect grey water and take it to one of the RV dump
stations along Interstate 80 after the event.
- If you want to construct an evaporation pond, check out the web site:
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/grey_water.html
Or if you're in a very small camp, with minimal dish and body-washing
water, you might choose to treat your grey water: pour it through a
filter (like a paint sieve), disinfect it with bleach then, since it is
treated, sprinkle it on your street to keep down dust.
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LNT Principle 4 - Minimize Campfire Impacts - How do we burn
responsibly and clean?
Burn Responsibly: Don't Burn on the Unprotected Playa. Burning directly
on the alkaline playa BAKES the surface into a dark, hard brick-like
material. Use community burn barrels or a burn platform.
Don't Overload the Burn Platforms! Be sure the wood you place in the
burn platform is well contained. When the platforms are overloaded,
burning wood can hit the playa and cause a burn scar. Have tools on hand
to break down and cut up larger pieces.
Burn Clean: Be careful to burn only clean (no paint) wood or paper! You
can burn on one of the community burn platforms along the Esplanade,
just don't burn anything that is toxic! Carpets, cushioned furniture,
PVC and other plastics release dioxins, formaldehyde, and other nasty
stuff. The community burn barrels and burn platforms are low to the
ground, and produce smoke that is easily inhaled. The low temperature,
incomplete combustion emits toxic gases and particulates. Please check out
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/toxic.html
for more information on the hazards associated with toxic fumes.
Reduce and Reuse: Fires are for celebration and spiritual connection,
not places to dump garbage. Low temperature burning produces toxic
emissions, so minimize what you burn. Recycle or reuse materials where
you can. Bring reusable wood to Camp Katrina for donation instead of
burning it!
Participate - Each of us can play a part in protecting the health of our
community and the incredible beauty of the playa. Join the toxic
avengers! If you want to volunteer to help educate our citizens about
responsible ways to burn, email toxicavengers@burningman.com, and please
come by the Earth Guardians Pavilion at during the event and sign up for
our daily crusades or weekend citizen patrols. We'll be having a
meeting on Friday at 11:30 to train new volunteers.
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Leave No Trace Principle 5 - Be Considerate of Other Visitors
Promote LNT neighborhoods. Be proud of your neighborhood: work together
with your neighbors to keep your part of the city clean. Every year some
camps get overwhelmed and need help. The LNT principle, "Be considerate
of Other Visitors," in our city, includes helping neighbors to leave no
trace. Carry a MOOP bag and water as you walk around your part of the city.
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you
give of yourself that you truly give." - Kahlil Gibran
Gifting in a LNT Community: We all enjoy the generosity and gifts of our
theme camps, artists, and fellow citizens. Instead of just bringing
cheap trinkets for gifts that become MOOP, consider the gift of oneself.
Look around and pitch in to help keep things clean: offer a tool, an
extra hand, a gesture of thanks. Try giving a smile, a helping hand or a
joke. Help a neighbor set up camp. You are the best gift.
-Devote Two Hours to General Cleanup in Black Rock City. This means the
streets, public spaces, and open playa where stuff may have been left
behind. Consider staying an extra day to help clean-up and avoid the
Sunday and Monday traffic!
- Prepare for the Hungry Wind - Secure your load, especially your trash.
Don't let your trash fly off your vehicle, and do not dump it on the
side of the road or at a rest stop on the way home! Use an approved
dumping facility or take or home with you. Plan ahead before you even
pack for the playa so you leave with a minimal amount of trash. When
starting home, take a rest stop early; at the entrance gate, at a wide
pullout, or maybe at the Empire store. Check your load. It is most
likely to fail early in the trip.
- Come back to the Black Rock Desert after the event and participate in
restoration activities. The Earth Guardians participate in restoration
activities year-round. For more information, check out our calendar at:
http://www.tonyandkarina.us/eg/index.htm
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Leave No Trace Principle 6 - Leave What You Find
On first reaching the playa, we encounter one of the profoundly barren
and empty corners of the world. That is exactly what we want to leave.
-Clean As You Go and Grid Your Camp at the End! Don't wait until the end
of the week to pick stuff up, NEVER LET IT HIT THE GROUND and CLEAN AS
YOU GO. This will help you from getting overwhelmed by the mess and help
keep trash from blowing out of reach. Before leaving do a line sweep
across your camp. Give everyone a ziploc bag, line them up along one
edge of camp, look down and slowly walk to the other side. Cover your
entire area looking for those last bits of trash- every twist tie,
cigarette butt, food scrap, carpet fiber, match, nut shell, scrap of
plastic, everything.
-You can't hide a stuck stake by burying it. Instead, its hazard is
magnified. Even when pounded below the surface, a stake will slowly,
inevitably, emerge from the playa. Vise-grips will almost always remove
a stuck stake. First, clamp on the vise-grips and rotate the stake back
and forth, to break the playa's grip. Then continue rotating and also
pull upwards. Still stuck? Ask a neighbor for help. Next year, remember
that smooth stakes pull out much easier than ridged rebar.
-Consider joining the DPW post-event clean-up crews. Help us get it out
of here, so that we can all return again.
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Leave No Trace Principle 7 - Respect Wildlife
At first glance, this principle may not seem as applicable to Burning
Man. However, as users of the Black Rock Desert, we share the Black Rock
Desert NCA with many native species. As home to Burning Man, the Black
Rock High Rock NCA has a profound impact on the Burning Man community.
In return, Earth Guardians have partnered with BLM and other user groups
to restore sensitive areas around the Black Rock Desert and have also
taken on our own restoration projects.
Promote more sustainable practices at Burning Man with Respect, Rethink,
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Restore, resulting in more awareness of
conservation, ecological footprints, carbon equivalent offsets, and
alternative energy sources, protecting our global habitat. Interested
in helping, come to the Earth Guardians pavilion on Wednesday at 6:00 to
learn more.
Also, don't forget, The Desert is no place for dogs or other pets.
Burning Man is a no dog event. For questions, contact dogs at
burningman.com
-RESPECT THE PLAYA - NEVER LET IT HIT THE GROUND!
RESPECT, RETHINK, REDUCE, REUSE, RECYLE and RESTORE!
DON'T LET IT HIT THE GROUND -CLEAN AS YOU GO!
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GREENING THE BURN - BURNING MAN 2006
Greening the Burn is a grass roots movement that started a number of
years ago when in 1995 two BRC citizens and Burning Man participants
asked the question, "Why is there no recycling in Black Rock City?" Two
years later a camp was started, dedicated to collecting & recycling
aluminum cans, and a movement was born. After 1997's event, the Earth
Guardians were formed and the Burning Man Project adopted the Leave No
Trace outdoor ethics. Six years later the first Biodiesel generator was
running one of the Burning Man infrastructure camps, the Greeters
Station. Also in 2004, biodegradable and compostable alternatives for
paper and plastic products were introduced at the Cafe and Staff
Commissary and participants were allowed by the Nevada Department of
Health to bring their own cups to the Cafe.
In February 2006, a meeting was held at Burning Man Headquarters in San
Francisco and it was clear that there was significant interest in
continuing to explore ways to "Green the burn". The Burning Man Project
listened and offered staff support, including a discussion list for
collaboration. Thus, greeningman-list@burningman.com came online.
Over the past five months, the members of this grassroots movement have
been collaborating and connecting and communicating their wishes and
dreams for a cleaner and greener Black Rock City and Burning Man
Project. We are ready to bring it to all of you this year in BRC and put
all of us to the test to see if we can make BRC not just the best place
to visit once a year, but a living breathing model for progressive and
conscious awareness.
We all know that when Burning Man started the focus wasn't being an
eco-activist-utopian city. We also know that in the world that we live
in, the communities that we call home the rest of the year, the places
that we hope the spirit of Burning Man will infiltrate and take
hold...these places can learn from our good example, and so can we learn
by continuing these efforts. Black Rock City is a place where lives are
changed forever, where connections are made that last a lifetime, where
we get to be and see the best in each of us. We think it is high time
that we step it up a notch and be the future we hope to see.
And now, on with the show.......
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PROJECTS AND CAMPS DEVOTED TO GREENING THE BURN
Greening Burningman.com
This has been an on going project for a number of years, Plans are in
the works to bring together the many environmental topics on and off our
website, update and add content regularly, and connect it all through a
brand new Environmental Section on the Burning Man web site. This
project has been given the green light and the web and green teams are
now running with it.
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RECYCLE CAMP
* Recycles as many aluminum cans as possible in a week
* Discourages glass & plastic bottles on the playa
* Practices & Promotes 'Leave No Trace' Principles
* Teaches the seething masses our 6 Tenets of proper Waste Management &
Recycling Responsibility:
1. Prepare! Leave sorry-ass packaging at home!
2. Pack it in, pack it out! Leave No Trace!
3. Never let it hit the ground!
4. Separate! Sort your trash before you discard it!
5. Create! Supposed "garbage" can be transformed into noble works of art!
6. Respect, Rethink Reduce Re-use Recycle Restore!!!
Come by our camp everyday of the event from 10am to 5pm to bring us
your aluminum cans and help crush 'em and bag 'em and we'll deliver them
to the Gerlach School to be recycled. The School gets the money and we
all get to know we did the right thing with our cans. Last year, about
$800 went to the Gerlach High School Student Council. See you out there!
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EARTH GUARDIANS
**Educational workshops**
We'll be posting all our events in the WhatWhereWhen and also posting
events on a large white board in front of our camp. We will also be
listing events on LNTV and doing PSAs on BMIR.
**Volunteers for the burn platforms & dumpsters outside of the event**
EG's have been doing this (with assistance from Rangers, fire and DPW)
for the last couple of years. Volunteer - Each of us can play a part in
protecting the health of our community and the incredible beauty of the
playa. We can educate other participants and our neighbors about safe
ways to burn at Burning Man. And if we see someone trying to burn
something that's toxic or way too big, we should try to stop them. Join
the toxic avengers! If you want to volunteer to help educate our
citizens about responsible ways to burn, email
toxicavengers@burningman.com, and please come by the Earth Guardians
Pavilion at during the event and sign up for our daily crusades or
weekend citizen patrols. We'll be having a meeting on Friday at 11:30
to train new volunteers.
**LNT Tour of the City**
Leave No Trace is really a way to camp smarter, not harder, on the
playa. So check out the LNT Tour model camps. And if you already got
LNT, nominate your camp for the coveted Camp of the Day award. 2006 will
mark the 5th year for the Earth Guardians LNT Tour of Black Rock City.
All tour camps fill out applications with their LNT plans and we talk
with them, collect their camp plans and work with them so that we have
educational material on their efforts to share, before adding them to
the 'Tour'. During the event, a group of Earth Guardians visit every
camp that has been nominated into the Camp of the Day Contest to
evaluate their LNT efforts and pick the top 5 camps of the week as winners.
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BLACK ROCK ART FOUNDATION'S "ScrapEden"
Dear Participants,
The Black Rock Arts Foundation is now in full tilt as we get ready for
our biggest outreach project of the year - the 2006 Burning Man event.
We're working on an interactive, participant-driven, art installation
on the playa, and we need your help!
This year, the traditional BRAF Booth in Center Camp will be replaced
by a collaborative installation known as ScrapEden BRC - a recycled
art garden populated by sculptural elements created from re-claimed,
re-purposed and re-cycled materials, and all citizens of BRC are
invited to participate. Each of the artworks created should mimic an
element of a real garden: flora, fauna, gnome, bench, bridge, etc.
We'll provide a centrally located 'garden shed' built from re-claimed
materials, as a focal point around which participants can install their
recycled artworks!
The idea formed this year when the Foundation began looking at what it
could do, using community-based art as the medium, to promote a culture
of re-use and re-cycling. It is for this reason that the sculptures in
this particular garden are made from scrap and salvaged materials - no
live plants, please! And while this installation will take place at
Burning Man 2006, we hope it will serve as a pilot project for sprouting
future gardens, and building awareness, in communities nationwide.
Each contributor will receive a ScrapEden BRC T-Shirt designed by Black
Rock Arts Foundation Advisory Board member, Diction Davies, a.k.a.
Dicky of 2005 Burning Man Dicky Box Fame!
You can volunteer to help out in the following four arenas:
First, we are looking for individuals, groups, camps, Regionals, etc.
who would like to create and install an artwork in the ScrapEden
Recycled Art Garden. If you, or an affiliated group, are interested in
contributing please write to scrapedenbrc@blackrockarts.org for more
information.
Second, we are looking for volunteers who would like to sit in the
shade, drink lemonade, talk to interested participants about the
mission of the Black Rock Arts Foundation in the default world, and
assist with the placement and/or installation of artworks brought to
ScrapEden BRC by contributing artist-participants. If you are
interested in helping staff the shed in two-hour increments, please
contact us at scrapedenbrc@blackrockarts.org.
Third, we are looking for a few good hands to help us build the shed.
While we have a project lead we could still use a few volunteers to help
with the set up and teardown of the installation. If you like to wield a
hammer, lift heavy things, survey, place, clean, haul and work as part
of a tight knit efficient team, please contact us at
scrapedenbrc@blackrockarts.org for details.
Finally, we're going to need some entertainment. If you've got Old
Time Music in your soul and you're in a jug band, a whiz of the mouth
harp, pick banjo, are a maestro on the mandolin or a master of slide
guitar, and would like to perform with us on playa, please get in touch
with our team via: scrapedenbrc@blackrockarts.org
See you on the playa!
Kristin Hale
Grants & Special Projects
Black Rock Arts Foundation
Inspiring Art, Community & Civic Participation
www.blackrockarts.org
415.626.1248
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AEZ - Alternative Energy Zone
If you have an interest in alternative energy (of any kind), AND do not
have a gas or diesel generator; then welcome, you are invited to join
our village. We do not demand. We lead by example toward a delightful,
joke-filled, fun way to enjoy Burning Man. You will see solar panels,
wind generators, solar ovens, solar showers, water cleaning, MANY MANY
blinky lights, and have folks around who can show YOU how to do it too
(if you ask). Mainly, we're a friendly village of folks showing a
different way to get things done...a way that treads a little more
lightly on the playa. See you there.
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EVOLUTIONARY CENTER: Organized by members of Greening the Burn
The Evolutionary Center is a theme camp focused around Sustainability
and Permaculture. The main intention of the center is to educate and
inspire Black Rock City citizens to live more sustainable both on the
playa and off. The camp is comprised of many friends and villagers from
around North America.
Workshops/Education
The primary focus of the camp will be education. These
workshops/demonstrations will include many innovative and interesting
ideas for all of the citizens of Black Rock City. We will list the
workshops in the What, Where, When, as well as have signage at the front
of camp letting people know the schedule. The workshops will mostly be
hands on and allow participants to actual make and create the ideas we
are speaking of. Topics of workshops will likely include:
* Permaculture Design
* Building a Rocket Stove
* Cob building 101
* Alternative Natural Building Techniques
* Intersection Repairs
* Solar Lighting/Energy
* Biodiesel/Straight & Waste Vegetable Oil
* Wind Power and Turbines
* Community Kitchens
* Community Building
* How to reduce and deal with waste on the Playa
Showpieces/Demonstrations
One of the main demonstrations and focal pieces of the camp will be the
She Horse. A large art car that will serve many purposes; as a mobile
Permaculture demonstration unit, a waste vegetable oil and recycle
collection vehicle, and public transportation system along the Green
Trail. The She Horse will be the main camp vehicle and will allow the
demonstrations/workshops to be mobile and take place at different
locations around the city.
The Green Trail
A major function of the evolutionary center is to connect all of the
sustainable focused camps and ideas in Black Rock City. To this end we
will print the Greening Man logo on signs and stickers to be placed on
like-minded camps and vehicles. These camps and signs will create a
trail throughout Black Rock City connecting all of the citizens. The
intention is to connect all of us so that we are aware of one another
and can learn and share resources. We will also try to coordinate
workshops and demonstrations along the trail so that a person may go
from camp to camp viewing and participating in the sustainable projects.
The She Horse and other green art cars will travel along this route
thereby providing a public transportation system for the Green Trail,
collecting citizens to come to the workshops and demonstrations.
Biodiesel Processing
Another main feature of the camp will be the biodiesel processing
facility. This facility will take the waste vegetable oil collected by
the She-Horse and process it into biodiesel to be used by the camp and
the She-Horse as fuel. Any surplus fuel will be given away to citizens
of BRC to use in their diesel cars or machines.
Green Resource Center
The Resource Center will collect and distribute information about the
sustainable focused projects and camp both on and off the playa. The
intention is to not only educate and connect people to resources and
information on the playa that may help educate them, but to also supply
useful information about resources in their cities/regions that they
might access when they return home. We're here to provide a one stop
shop for all of your green needs on and off the playa.
Summary
These are just a few of the many exciting aspects of the Evolutionary
Center. As always this plan will evolve over time. The only question
is whether you will be participating in the evolution or being left behind.
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REDUCING OUR FOOTPRINT
Projects dedicated to examining and reducing the carbon/emissions
footprint of BRC
Solar Power added to Black Rock City Infrastructure
We are working with the owner of a Los Angeles based solar power
installation company to bring a portable solar power station, which he
built, to the playa this year. It will be installed on the south side of
the Center Camp Cafe and will provide between 3 and 4 kilowatts of the
suns energy to power the Spoken Word Stage during the day and some of
the lower wattage lighting at night and the sound system behind the
coffee bar 24 hours a day. This is intended to showcase renewable power
generation and to emphasize the need for conservation, today and in the
future.
Biodiesel returns to Black Rock City Infrastructure
Through the efforts of the Black Rock City, LLC Board, the DPW and the
Greening the Burn Project, there will be 100% Biodiesel made from local
northern Nevada waste vegetable oil running in 3 of the BRC
infrastructure generators. Building off the first test in 2004, new
relationships have emerged and the many details logistics are being
finalized. Look for these generators and their signature "French Fry"
smell when you arrive and pass through the Greeters Station, when you
walk by the BM staff commissary and when you venture out to the Man this
year.
We would like to introduce and thank the following group of dedicated
BRC citizens for making many of the new connections, like the two
companies listed below, that have made the Biodiesel project possible
for 2006.
Burn Clean Project - Sustainable Fuels for Black Rock City
Would you like to work to manifest the vision of a large community
operating without fossil fuels into reality?
Email connect@burncleanproject.org to become part of the Burn Clean
Volunteer Collective.
Visit http://www.burncleanproject.org/ to learn more.
Kohler Power Rentals:
Contact: Don Gray - Cell 920.912.3427
E mail: gray.don@kohler.com
888.769.3794
Kohler Rentals
4509 S. Taylor Dr.
Sheboygan, WI 53081
Kohler is committed to allowing organizations to run generators on
Biodiesel. At this time, only generators between 50Kw and 180Kw are
available.
Bently Biofuels Company
1350 Buckeye Rd.
Minden, NV 89423
www.bentlybiofuels.com
Carlo Luri: General Manager And Very Nice Guy
775.783.0123
Map to Bently Biofuels
OKAY lovely greenfuelers...
Bently Biofuels of Minden, NV will provide two possible solutions to
fueling up en route and in Black Rock City.
First and least costly: Anyone can stop by their ranch in Minden, NV.
Their facility is right off 395 by Lake Tahoe (3 hours from Gerlach.)
People driving from San Francisco and points South should have no
trouble stopping in on the way there or the way back. Please email Carlo
Luri, the GM at Bently to let him know the approximate date and time
you'll be stopping in, so he can coordinate with you. Bently biodiesel
made from locally collected WVO and then processed up to ASTM
specifications, is available for $3.50/gallon pumped directly to your
tank or your personal gas tote.
Second and a bit pricier: Bently has agreed to drop off pre-filled 5
gallon gas totes to the playa. You must call them and prepay over the
phone. Please do this as early as possible. They will then have them
delivered no later than Sunday the 27th and most likely, much earlier.
With this option, you are purchasing the gas tote itself ($10), and then
paying for the fuel ($3.50/gal), which comes out to $27.50 per 5 gallon
tote. This is $5.50/gal. The totes will be available ONLY TO PEOPLE WHO
HAVE PREPURCHASED THEM THROUGH BENTLY at the Burn Clean Project pod in
the Evolutionary Center Camp. Please email us at
connect@burncleanproject.org to let us know when you will be picking up
your fuel on the playa so we can be there to give it to you....
0nelove
Burn Clean Project
P.S. Also check out:
Biodiesel Fueling Locator:
http://www.biodiesel.org/buyingbiodiesel/retailfuelingsites/
Ethanol Fueling Locator:
http://www.e85fuel.com/database/locations.php?state=nvNevada
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BURNERS WITHOUT BORDERS
htpp://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/
Hi all, quick intro: Tom Price aka Thumper
I'm helping coordinate two Burners Without Borders projects this
year, one off, one on playa.
1- Green Burn. Working with the folks at http://www.coolingman.net, we're
calculating the climate impact of Burning the Man in tons of carbon,
and then we will be working with regional groups and others around the
country to offset all that carbon, making the burning of the man
climate neutral, even positive. We'll be doing that by planting
trees, and buying carbon credits to invest in things like renewable
energy (about $5.50 per ton, btw). Anyone can participate, it will
be the first ACTION taking place simultaneously nationwide by
burners ever, I believe. There will also be an online calculator so
theme camps and individuals can figure out their own carbon footprint.
The goal? Both symbolic, and substantial. Show the community that
accepting responsibility can be done, and that even spread over vast
distances, they're still connected.
2- Lumber recycling. Tired of watching all that good wood go up in
smoke after the event? So are we. We're setting up a nail pulling
and lumber grading station at Camp Katrina ( approx 3pm and
Esplanade ), where we'll clean and sort all the lumber left over from
theme camps (obviously, they need to bring it over and help out, but
we'll do the rest). After the event, it will be delivered to Habitat
for Humanity, to help build 14 planned homes for needy families in
Reno. Simple, symbolic, substantial. Word.
2.5- Materials recycling. Not a green project per se, but FYI we may
also be collecting usable tents/sleeping bags/camp stoves etc. @
Exodus for use in future deployments to disaster regions. TBD for
certain, but wanted to let you know
And THANK YOU to Blue and everyone else who joined us for Cinco De
Playa beach clean up on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, to help preserve
our right to burn on the ocean--you rock!
Remember, you are BWB as much as anyone. Stay involved!
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COOLINGMAN.NET
Cooling Man did not come out of the Greening the Burn Project but they
deserve a mention here. Before working with Burners without Borders,
Cooling Man has been working to make many events and projects carbon
neutral and even carbon positive for over a year now. They even worked
with the Black Rock Arts Foundation to make the installation of Michael
Christians Flock in front of City Hall in San Francisco, last November,
carbon neutral. Visit them at http://www.coolingman.net to learn more.
Thank you Cooling Man!
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SPACE SHARE - FEWER CARS, MORE COMMUNITY
http://www.spaceshare.com
SpaceShare is interested in being part of the Transportation solution,
especially around getting people to & from BRC. SpaceShare has offered
to contribute a carpool & car-rental-share (from the airport) system if a
consensus grows that everyone wants us to. We're working on it.
SPACE SHARE
People travel to festivals and conferences to connect. Yet their travels
are often uncoordinated, lonely and expensive. If you are planning a
large event, how do you extend your welcome beyond the conference doors
or festival gate?
SpaceShare's built a really effective ride/room-share
system that just a few events (about 50 a year) are using.
Collectively, this email community probably knows of hundreds more,
anything from big one-night concerts to week long camping festivals &
conferences. It'd be wonderful to connect to more big events, or even
better to tell the people planning the events you go to that all they
have to do is contact SpaceShare & I'll help green their event.
SpaceShare is not "focused" on one community, we're working with solar &
alternative health & media conferences, with radical festivals & polite
non-political events, so no one here at SpaceShare knows about all the
things going on in this community.
We've been talking about building a ride share board for BM 2006 so that
ideas can spread into the larger world. SpaceShare is in a great place
even if we didn't start at BM, now ready to go to stage II and get into
the larger consciousness. Since we've got a foot in the door at so many
communities, we'll be able to help the other Greeningman experiments
spread out, too.
Thanks!
Stephen Cataldo, founder of SpaceShare
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CLEAN FUELS CARAVAN COALITION
htpp://www.cleanfuelcaravan.org
The Clean-Fuel Caravan - is the first ever coalition of educators and
entertainers that utilize renewable fuels in our ongoing outreach tours
to share ideas and resources about sustainable living. We tour using
clean fuels in response to the cycle of global and environmental crisis
perpetuated by the petroleum fuel economy. Visit their website to learn
more or to join the caravan.
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A LESSSON FROM HIPPIE MIKE
Step outside the box truck
Welcome to b-man ethics 101
By Hippie aka "If I catch you throwing MOOP on the ground I will stand
there until you are finished eating it"
Bike racks at Center Camp: Now look here, there are great folks that put
their energy toward making these wonderful inventions for you! This
means use them... Do you know how many citizens placed their bikes
either where it was blocked off with caution tape or locked their bikes
to the cafe structure not to mention the great art piece that is at the
front portal of the cafe?? Please take the time to find a slot in the
bike racks.
Now let's talk oil...it may seem like "a little mistake won't hurt the
playa" but when you scale "little mistakes" out by the number of people
in our city, well, it hurts, and spills can be avoided. Bring a piece of
cardboard to place under your vehicle (big enough that your tires stop
it from blowing away). Lamp oil, gasoline & motor oil from generators
can also be kept off the playa with some cardboard or other absorbent
material placed underneath to catch spills. It will evaporate in the
heat of the day.
We as a community need to step up our awareness uplift our senses and
show this rock called earth that we care... We lead the way....
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IDEAS IN PROGRESS...
The following are works and ideas in progress that we would like to see
move further in 2007.
Wind Power Turbines http://www.aerotecture.com/
Further connections have been made and conversations had regarding
bringing wind turbine technology to the playa to power parts of the
Black Rock City infrastructure. These particular wind turbines are not
only very efficient but they are works of art in their own right. We
hope to move forward in 2007 and create basically an art installation
that incorporates the turbines and provides the power for a specific
project. We will look to power something civic in nature but also
visible and hopefully interactive.
Thrival Guide
"Thrival Guide" - How to Thrive at BM and in our communities using
Permaculture and sustainability models/methods - or, just plain common
sense.
Suggestions on
-greening "gifting" and costume ideas
-using less gas/car pooling/alternative energy
-alternative energy sources for camps
-green suppliers along travel routes
-alternatives to Glow sticks
-REDUCING materially and EXPANDING in creativity, spirit and hearts
We have been practicing Survival for millions of years
It's time to move onward/inward to Thrival!!
THRIVAL* - How are you practicing?
Simply surviving the suffering
that is one aspect of being HUMan
or HUMming with THRIVAL
because of it.
How do you practice THRIVAL?
Your ideas and comments
will appreciate joyous consciousness
through the creation of the
THRIVAL GUIDE
for the Burning Man Website and beyond
Put on your
inSPIRAtion caps
alter the mindscape
and let the evolution
unfold....
*Thrival - any activity or thought pattern that serves
and promotes the greater good, mind/body/spirit,
All That Is.
GLOW STICK THINK TANK
An idea related to waste awareness....
A clear re-sourced plexiglass tank with holes just big enough to deposit
your used glow sticks and necklaces. Collectively we will illuminate the
problem of just how much waste is generated by our use of these
disposable light toys. There will be markers attached to the tank for
participants to write there ideas for alternatives to the glow sticks
directly on the tank. Look for the tank somewhere on the Esplanade.
To get involved, join the greeningman-list@burningman.com discussion
list and ask for Nieth
Thank you all,
Neith
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