Black Rock City | Burning Man Journal

The Future of Fly

August 12, 2019 By John Curley

You walk out onto the playa of Hualapai Flat, and you can’t keep yourself from going back in time. You can still find ruins along that long-ago Esplanade, marked by ...Read More

Building BRC, Leaving No Trace

Coyote Nose – The Garbage Myth

April 26, 2019 By Tony “Coyote” Perez-Banuet

As a child, the garbage truck would always terrify me. It was a huge metal brute with a yawning monster ...Read More

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Burning Man Faces Existential Threat: EIS Deadline Approaching

April 18, 2019 By Burning Man

Catching you up real quick, this is still true: the future of Black Rock City is at risk, and we ...Read More

Building BRC

Cultural Direction Setting: Where Do We Go from Here?

April 17, 2019 By BRC Cultural Direction Setting Group

So you’ve read our last two posts on Cultural Direction Setting — What’s Happened and What We Heard. Perhaps you’re ...Read More

Building BRC, Leaving No Trace

MOOP Map 2018: High-Resolution Environmental Accountability

April 12, 2019 By DA

Hello Black Rock City, DA here. Serving as Burning Man’s Playa Restoration Manager since 2005, it is my responsibility to ...Read More

BRC News, Leaving No Trace

Fact-checking BLM: Draft Environmental Impact Statement Backgrounder

April 4, 2019 By Burning Man

The Bureau of Land Management has published its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Burning Man Event in Black ...Read More

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How to Submit a Great Comment on BLM’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement

April 4, 2019 By Burning Man

The BLM has issued its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Burning Man. Unfortunately, the operational mitigations it outlines would ...Read More