Welcome to our 2025 Impact Report! This is our very first foray into becoming a more environmentally sustainable event - and it was a raging success, if we do say so ourselves.
We’re committed to total transparency – it helps us think about how to lower the dials on our consumption, planetary impact and how we do things.
As ever, it takes absolutely everybody involved in Freezer Burn (volunteers, artists, participants, vendors and beyond!) doing their bit, to reduce our impacts and contribute to a livable future – so a big thank you to everyone who did their bit this year, for helping us on this journey.
I am so thankful to each of you who have helped in some way to help make Greener Burn a SMASHING SUCCESS for its official 2025 launch! I knew there would be many Burners who would welcome our little initiative when it arrived at Freezer Burn, but I was floored by just how much praise and love we received for this growing movement. I heard a lot of it at the Launch Party, usually with a very satisfied look on their face after making their own T-shirt swag. What did they say? Well, in no particular order:
“I’m so happy there’s composting for this year! We’re gonna fill those bins!”
(When I told a group of three volunteers that things are slow and one of you can leave if you’d like, all three of them said something to the effect of this) “No way! I’ve been looking forward to this all week!”
“The pathways are soooooo much quieter at night now! And those [wattage cottages] are adorable!”
“Thanks for making Greener Burn happen! This has been long overdue.”
Greener Burn started as and will always be a collective, collaborative project. I may lead this effort, but without all these passionate and thoughtful individuals who have come forward to help make things happen, I’d just be talking to myself.
—Tommity, Green Burn Chief Nerd & Supreme Leader
To the carbon survey volunteers that braved the on-again, off-again rain to help collect 442 surveys that contain SO MUCH DATA about Participant vehicles and their passengers and what they brought with them. A special shout-out to the following shift leads who ensured Tommity didn’t have to spend three straight days of my own burn being up at the gate: Genevieve (Gen of Eve), Michelle (Mimi), Jackie and Ava.
To the Greener Burn Launch Party dream team that helped throw a helluva party on Freezer Burn Friday! In no particular order, thanks to Genevieve (Gen-of-Eve) for taking the time to do such a great job of turning the Greener Burn logo and wordmark into two different sizes of stencils. They looked sooooo good on the many t-shirts (and chests!) at the Launch Party. Thanks to Michelle (Mimi), who helped organize this event and captured this hilarious moment between me and a good friend who didn’t have a t-shirt, so I painted the logo onto his chest! What a loyal cult initiative supporter. Much love to Liv (DJ Liv) for keeping the energy up at the Launch Party with careful music curation and skills on the DJ controller. You can re-listen to the set on SoundCloud and explore the song list used for this set on Spotify.
This report uses some terms that you may not be completely familiar with.
CO2 means carbon dioxide, a gas that we cannot see or smell. It occurs naturally (for example, when people and animals breathe out or during volcanic activity), but it is also released by human activities like burning coal, oil, and gas.