Welcome Home, environmentally-minded Burner! BLAST stands for Burner Leadership Achieving Sustainable Theme Camps. We're a green theme camp certification program, like LEED for Burning Man.
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Overview
BLAST (Burner Leadership Achieving Sustainable Theme Camps) is a green camp rating system that offers a framework for energy and resource efficient, environmentally conscientious, and regenerative theme camps. We provide an incentive to “Green Your Burn,” awarding camps and their members for successful sustainability efforts. Check out our 1-Pager for more info.
Vision: Our Dreams for BRC 2030
- We dream of a Burning Man event where all theme camps track their environmental footprint, acculturate camp members to adopt sustainable practices, and implement green infrastructure projects across all 6 focus areas (power, waste, water, food, shelter, transportation & emissions). Planning a sustainable Burn, and improving each year will become an essential part of organizing a theme camp.
Mission: How We'll Get There
BLAST inspires theme camps to step up their sustainability efforts by...
- Providing an outline for what an "ideal" green camp might look like
- Supporting camps as they plan green infrastructure projects
- Creating a system of accountability for reducing environmental impact
What We're Working On
- Criteria - We're in the process of updating the BLAST criteria for 2023, and thinking about how to best accommodate camps of various sizes, types, etc.
- Outreach - We're writing a BLAST Certification Guide, that walks theme camp organizers through the certification process
- Design - The visual identity breakout group has designed a BLAST Radius Sustainability Tracker, which will visually represent a camp's progress in each focus area
Discover More
Hive group
2022 AfterBurn Report
2022 Application Walkthrough Video