Sure, Larry Harvey espouses 10 principles for Burning Man. They appear in each summer issue of the Burning Man newsletter. Organizations adopting them, however, do not automatically work. They are not the true principles deep at work underlying functioning communities. Instead, i find other deeper ones. Here is an honest and earnest description of one of them.

“Recycle” has been such simplistic inside-the-box dogma, fashionable discussion hardly broaches two other, less energy intensive, less expensive, and less sexy “reduce” and “reuse”. But to think 3 Rs suffice may be itself thinking inside-the-box. To break outside and live sustainably requires changing not just practices, but also mindsets, and this calls for more Rs: “respect”—understanding what it means to be part of the solution; “rethink”—if you think outside the box, think again; and “restore”—pay it forward.