Overview

In the 2030 Environmental Sustainability Roadmap, the Burning Man Project set three explicit goals: Handle Waste Ecologically, Be Regenerative, and Be Carbon Negative. The annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City provides a unique opportunity to demonstrate, experiment, and iterate on sustainable practices and technologies, with the potential for far-reaching impact throughout our regional networks, events, and other community partnerships in the “default world.”

Theme camp organizers and other ecologically-minded burners gathered at the first Green Theme Camp Summit in October of 2020, to brainstorm how theme camps might contribute to Burning Man’s sustainability efforts.

GTCC Supports Four Initiatives

Sustainability Leadership

Since the Green Theme Camp Summit in October 2020, our community has been actively organizing, testing ideas, and preparing solutions to get us closer to our goals. Areas of development include: 

• Six infrastructure focus teams, including Food, Power, Shelter, Transportation, Waste, and Water

• Building community and continually doing the work to bring green-hearted Burners together to align our values and "Green Our Burn" 

• Encouraging theme camps to assign a Sustainability Lead who will help to "Green Their Burn"

BLAST
Burner Leadership in Achieving Sustainable Theme Camps

BLAST is a green camp rating system that offers a framework for energy and resource efficient, environmentally conscientious, and regenerative theme camps. If you’ve heard of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for green buildings, think of BLAST as the Burning Man equivalent. We provide an incentive to “Green Your Burn,” awarding camps and their members for successful sustainability efforts. 

Green Corridor 

The Green Corridor is a sector in Black Rock City that contains theme camps working towards the goals of the 2030 Environmental Sustainability Roadmap. 

In addition Humans Uniting for Better Sustainability (HUBS) is a resource-sharing system to help camps plan and share resources and co-locate camps who have partnered to efficiently share resources such as water, power, tools, and transportation. 

Green Camp Resource Guide

The Resource Guide is a dynamic, interactive, open-source directory of solution-based ideas and green infrastructure projects. It is meant to inspire and educate as we work towards a more sustainable event and a more conscientious global community.