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.

Interested in taking part for our first year on playa? Click here!

For a preview of the BLAST application, check out this walkthrough video!

Highlights

• Our team has bi-weekly meetings
• Join us on Slack - #proj-blast
• Check out the infra groups - they're actively contributing to BLAST and the best way to get involved!

Get Involved

• Ask - Our greatest need right now is for people excited about BLAST to get involved in specific infrastructure teams! We're relying on our infra teams to come up with BLAST criteria and test drive our rating system.

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

• Planning - We set an overall goal for 2022, to prototype BLAST and certify 22 theme camps
• Infra Teams - We've had ongoing discussions around standardizing the credits system, and creating a centralized list of BLAST criteria
• Outreach - We're writing a BLAST Certification Guide, walking theme camp organizers through the certification process
• Design - The visual identity breakout group is designing a BLAST Radius chart, which will visually represent a camp's progress in each focus area

Discover More

Certification Guide

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