Green Plan
How We Plan To Be Sustainable
Our Green Leadership and Structure: All members of the camp will be responsible on an ongoing basis for sustainability, and the overall effort will be lead by Laura (Divinity) Suesserman.
We hereby designate Laura (Divinity) Suesserman as our lead Green Guru, who will ensure that our camp and campers understand the 6 R's (Respect, Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Restore). She will also take part in planning our purchases and encourage us to reuse materials, recycle materials and reduce what we bring.
She will investigate our power needs. She will see that all camp members understand and agree with the policies and practices of Leave No Trace (LNT) at Burning Man and understand our camp’s LNT plan.
She will oversee daily tasks and will have a plan in place when we get ready to leave. When it's time to break down and sweep our camp for every last trace. She or a designated Captain will make sure EVERYTHING left goes with us.
Laura (Divinity) Suesserman will oversee sustainability of our camp.
Our Commitment To Greening The Man
To Ensure That Burning Man Is Sustainable, We Will:
Respect - We will make choices regarding our camp respecting the environment and other residents of Black Rock City.
- We will carpool to Burning Man as much as possible.
- We will consider our choices that we’ll do while we’re there.
- We will respect others and give them our hearts, our hands and our help.
- We will take home only what we brought, our memories, new friends and photos.
Rethink - We will rethink what we need to survive and thrive.
- We will consider what items we really enjoyed having last year.
- We will not bring items that we didn't use last year.
Reduce - We will ask if we need to bring everything that we did last year.
- We will reconsider bringing that extra thing; we can probably survive and even thrive without it.
- We will reduce our energy use and consider alternative sources of energy like solar, wind and biofuels.
- We will consider living lighter on the playa.
Reuse - We will determine what we use year after year..
- We will bring reusable water jugs.
- We will repurpose, reconfigure and redecorate our basic camp structure.
Recycle - We will bring.
- Aluminum cans for recycling in center camp!
Restore - We will leave the playa the profoundly barren and empty corner of the world that it is.
- We will leave positive traces on the environment.
Here’s How We’ll Do It:
Energy
- Plan to reduce energy use and incorporate energy efficient practices.
- Plan to use alternative sources of energy (human, solar, wind, biodiesel) and/or offset carbon emissions associated with transportation and energy producing devices(generators, etc.).
- We will illuminate our camp with energy efficient light bulbs, LED's or EL wire.
Materials
- Select materials and decorations for our camp that lessen waste and are recyclable or reusable.
- Plan to use nontoxic, biodegradable, and salvageable materials.
Waste
- Plan on salvaging, reusing, and/or recycling everything onsite, including camp construction and demolition waste.
Community Service
- Participate in outreach to other theme camps and display our green technologies to other camps.
- Coordinate with other camps to use alternative fuels to power electric charging stations (for other people/camps who need a battery charged).