The mission of Apogaea’s Sustainability Committee is to encourage participants to make Apogaea more environmentally, culturally, and economically sustainable through education, inspiration, and communal effort.
By focusing on collaborative, grass-roots efforts, real social consciousness, and permeative conservation, the ASC hopes to amplify the sustainability efforts of our local, regional, and international communities, both in and out of the Burner-sphere.
Important Contact Information:
- Board Member Liaison: Danielle Grace
- Department Lead: Japangela Andersen
Sustainability Opportunities
Sustainability Ambassadors are an integral part of implementing sustainability projects at the event and year round. Although projects will change from year to year, these opportunities will help further the aims and goals to make Apogaea sustainable as we grow.
Apogaea 2025 Ride Matching Program is Here!
Apogaea Has A Ride Matching Program!
Apogaea’s Sustainability Committee is excited to offer a ride matching program for this year’s event through a partnership with TreadShare.
TreadShare’s mission aligns closely with many of Apogaea’s principles, including Communal Effort, Leave No Trace, Gifting, Participation, and Civic Responsibility. In that spirit, they have offered to create for us a private platform for participants to offer and request rides to and from the event. While our private carpool group does include a small platform fee, the core idea is still rooted in resource-sharing. It’s not about profit—it’s about helping each other get there, reduce environmental impact, and make connections along the way.
To get involved by either requesting or offering a ride Download the TreadShare App.
1. Create your account and profile. It only takes a few clicks! Add a profile picture to help build trust with fellow carpoolers. Don’t worry—your last name stays private and is only shared with confirmed carpool matches. TreadShare never sells or shares your data.
2. Join the private Apogaea carpool group. Scroll down the app’s homepage and tap the Sustaining Apogaea logo. Enter the password that ticket holders received by email.
3. Find a ride—or offer one! Riders: You’re ready to browse and book seats. Drivers: Head to the Drive tab and get verified by uploading a photo of your driver’s license and proof of car insurance. It just takes a minute.
A note about fees & gas money.
Drivers can choose whether or not to receive gas money.
- If they do, the rider pays the amount listed.
- If they don’t, there’s a $2 booking fee to help TreadShare cover platform costs.
This carpool program is being piloted for Apogaea 2025, and fees may be lifted for users next year.
Thanks again!
Survival Guide Sustainability Tips
We all know that the basic principles of BM include radical self-alliance, reducing our environmental impact, and packing out EVERYTHING that we pack in. But are we all really doing all that we can, especially when it’s not convenient, or after a couple of cocktails. Are you doing everything you can to reduce your carbon footprint (and helping your fellow Burners reduce theirs)
Following are some hopefully simple tips from your newly ignited Apo Sustainability Committee:
- Carpool – we know it’s not easy with varying work and life schedules, and a ton of crap that you’ll haul to the event and probably not use, but our excessive number of gas-guzzling vehicles is a growing problem. Do what you can to carpool, and click HERE for the recently rejuvenated rideshare.
- Trash, recycling, and composting:
- Avoid plastic – not just disposable water bottles, but packaging, trash bags, etc.
- Consider packing out your own trash and avoid group trash collection at camp. No one wants to haul back those hefty trash bags full of refuse, liquor bottles, make shift ashtrays, and compostable (and sometimes rotten) food goop.
- Leave extra plastic and glass packaging at home. Bring food and drink and supplies in containers that can be reused to pack out your waste.
- Pack out recycling in empty coolers. Resist the tendency/temptation to throw recycling away while you’re buzzed and stumbling around in the dark!
- Bring buckets with lids for refuse or compostable materials. Mesh bags or nylons offer an easy way to dry and collect compost.Take them home and compost them.
- Again, avoid community trash receptacles that almost ALWAYS attract cross-contamination of trash, recycling, and compost. Be responsible for your own crap, and only your own (but help guide your brethren to successful sustainability.
- Conserve your water. Sounds easy, but maybe just pretend that every drop is as valuable as top-shelf liquor or liquid gold!
- Just because it’s art doesn’t make it exempt from best practices in sustainability. Make sure to have a plan to reuse or recycle your camp infrastructure and art installations.
- What else can you do to reduce your carbon footprint and environmental impact? Share your ideas!
- Please contact us with your ideas, and/or if you’d like to contribute to these efforts, at [email protected]
