ooh, i like that idea. always wanted to check out ak in the summer. but won't it get too cold for nakedness?

man, you guys are right. your arguments are so well thought-out, so responsive to the questions i posed. you've managed to convince me that i was wrong, wrong to think all that genius out at brc could actually make a positive impact on american society. burning man is a party, and only a party. i st...

OK, so I got a little ahead o'myself there with the sea turtles. I'm just asking whether our values go on vacation with us. Is BRC separate from the d-fault world, and vice versa? Do our philosophies permeate the BRC border? If we're resource- and emission-conscious in d-fault, is it cool to party l...

Right. You work hard, you deserve to play hard, and consume hard. It doesn't count if you're on vacation. Ask the local people of Puerto Vallarta about the plastic cups leaching toxins into Banderas Bay while drunken frat boys ask girls to go wild ... ask the sea turtles who return to the beaches to...

mmkay, touche, dude. but one low-income chick bringing hand-crank flashlights or a single PV for her own campsite is a different deal than the organization as a whole making a real green commitment. i felt daunted by the size of the task, especially if the big kids weren't on board. the point of my ...

Here's an article I wrote after Burning Man 2005. Kinda disgusted by the unrepentant fuel-spewin' I saw that year, I haven't been back. At the time, even on this forum, the general response to my story was denial -- "it's nothing compared to the emissions from [cars in the default world / bombs / co...