AutoSub's Lean Mean Green Machine

Gonna get ourselves some greener, gonna use some bio-diesel, gonna recycle everything that we can even if it means bringin' 2-liter tonic bottles back to Boston so that Malden Mills can turn them into fleece so's that we cans survive the next non-frigid Winter here in the old Nor'East

POWER: With our evolution into a Village structure, we have benefited from the economies of scale inherent in not having to set up many individual generators to power our disparate camps, thus lessening our overall carbon footprint. This year, we are looking into a bio-diesel option for our power. As well, some of our art projects utilize 12-Volt, lead-acid batteries that we recharge with solar cells. The camp sink and gray water pump are both run on 12-Volt batteries with a solar recharge option. OK, OK we may go a bit overboard with the lighting for our Esplanade structure and our art pieces, but back in camp, at night we utilize compact fluorescent bulbs to help us navigate our charted, but ever-changing and alternately perceived night habitat, thus mitigating some of our excess...

GRAY WATER: To minimize our grey water trucking and disposal, we have Lake Woodward, our not-yet-award-winning Evap Pond. With a filtered, recirculating pump that maximizes the water's surface area to promote more rapid evaporation, our pond also provides some small-scale evaporative cooling. We minimize the potential for bacterial vector spreading by bleaching this water on a regular schedule.

COMPOST: Hooray for Compost Camp! In the past, we have tended to dry out our garbage in the sun and burn/eat/dispose of what was left. Last year we were fortunate enough to get one of the large green receptacles from said Compost Camp, which we made great use of.

TRASH & RECYCLING: Hailing from the Northeast and coming from good and hardy Yankee stock we tend to be a bit frugal, boxes labeled 'String Too Short To Be Saved' and all that, so's we are more likely to bring something home and store it for potential future use than practice such a sacrilegious and, to us, heathen act as to, GASP! throw it away! We will burn/recycle/eat anything that can be burned/recycled/eaten. We have sent great quantities of recycling back to San Fran with random recycling Goddesses that we have chanced upon, & last year some members of the Boston Hive Village brought a veritable mountain of recyclables back with them to enter the 'Great California Waste Stream.'

FUEL: Realizing that we can certainly burn more gasoline than any other similarly-sized group of humans on the planet, we tend to double, triple & quadruple up on rooms in Reno, and not only because it is cheaper... We have set up a spreadsheet so that we can see when & how who of us are leaving for the Playa, so that we can arrange carpooling to & from home & airports & to & from the Playa from Reno.

FRUGALITY: We tend to pick whatever fruit that we can from the fertile orchards of the decaying industrial & more productive research waste-streams that we have at our, ahem, disposal, here in good, old Bean-Town. We outfit camp as much as possible through freecycle and dumpster-diving. For 4-years running we have donated as many crutches to the BRC Medical tent as we have been able to scrounge off of the city streets in the preceding year.