I Was Just Leaving... No Trace

Take a trip through the puzzle of porta-potties at a free-range
event, highway happenings, and the new news about prep. This is
deeper than “What is MOOP?” This is the ART of Leaving No Trace.


It’s part of the Burning Man ethos, and it’s why Black Rock City
is the world's largest Leave No Trace event. Now nearly 100 other
Burning Man events around the globe adhere to this attitude, this
mindset. It’s an ongoing quest to leave less and less of a trace.
As the principle is written, it invites us to leave spaces in
better shape than we found them.


The 75,000 citizens of BRC pick up after themselves. It’s
miraculous. And we can do more.


Those of us who take on the challenge, we see it as a process, a
practice, a stretch goal. We look at ways to get closer to that
zero point. Each of us is at a different point on the LNT
learning curve. The next level is to develop techniques to do it
collectively. It is a set of behaviors to be cultivated.


In this episode, we talk with some of the unsung heroes: 


blue: DPW Logistics & Project Manager of Recycle Camp

Barbarella: Resto’s Highway Clean-Up Manager

DA: Playa Restoration Manager

Hazmatt: Associate Director of BRC Business Operations



We look at what gets left behind, so we can grok our cumulative
impact, and make a better choice, a better cascade of choices, to
teach good citizenship. Plus, eh, there may be a few poop jokes.


There’s an old saying in Black Rock City: “It was better next
year.” Let’s leave no trace so that there will be a next year.


burningman.org/about/10-principles


Recycle Camp


2023 MOOP Map


DA on Restoration Destiny (Burning Man LIVE)


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