Scorch is a podcast created by Pink Daddy to reflect the San Diego and Southern California Burning Man community... unofficially, of course. Podcasts contain interviews with Burners and participants at local events and functions. Occasionally, a musical guest from the San Diego area hops on Scorch to mix a set or a live performance. There are no rules or guidelines for Scorch, so you never really know what you'll get next...

Hug Nation is a weekly, world-wide, Group Hug - started in 2001.

Those pesky oceans keep us from doing the weekly hug physically, so we do it virtually. Thousands of people around the world gather in front of computers to hug themselves and the people around them at a set time. Rather than a shared physical space, it is a shared mental space.

Regardless of where you are on Tuesday at 1-pm (PST), you can join the Group Hug.

Squeeze yourself in your car or in the supermarket. Hug your spouse or co-worker. Just visualize the thousands worldwide who are joining you at that moment.

Think of it as a sort of prayer — a communal expression of compassion. It is a weekly reminder that we are connected and we are all far more similar than we are different. Everyone can use a hug.

http://hugnation.com/

Burners Without Borders (BWB) coalesced from a spontaneous, collective instinct to meet gaping needs where existing societal systems were clearly failing...

Following the 2005 Burning Man event, several participants headed south into the Hurricane Katrina disaster area to help people rebuild their devastated communities. As the volunteer numbers grew, they focused their initial efforts on rebuilding a destroyed Vietnamese temple in Biloxi, Mississippi. After several months, that job done, they moved to another needy Mississippi community, Pearlington, to continue to work hard -- gifting their time -- to help those in need. Over the course of eight months, BWB volunteers gifted over $1 million dollars worth of reconstruction and debris removal to the residents of Mississippi.

Since that time, BWB has emerged as a community led, grassroots group that addresses gaping needs where existing cultural and societal systems are failing.

What does this look like?  The important thing is to create collaborations and bring as much creativity and fun to the project as possible. The BWB website is intended to be the mouthpiece for this community's efforts as well as a  catalyst for inspiring new ideas.

Here are some examples-

-Canned Food Drive at your local bar's Happy Hour
-Create a work day or weekend in an area in your community that could use some TLC. These gatherings are great ways to organize around long-term projects.
-Organize a Costumed Bar Crawl/Trash Pick Up in your town
-Get involved with a project your city is already planning and integrate "burner" style participation into it

http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/

Shouting Fire is an internet radio station by, for, and about, Burners.

www.shoutingfire.com

Set up by some of the guys from the on-playa radio stations, this online radio station transmits through the World Wide Web.

You will find talk shows, music shows, weird music shows, and news and updates about things going on in different Burning Man communities around the world. And of course, Rev. Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping, on Sunday mornings. 

San Diego doesn't currently have a show on Shouting Fire that we are aware of. If you would like to create one, they would love to have more content, and you could list them on this website, right here.

Welcome to Black Rock Solar

We’re a non-profit with a simple goal: take on climate change, and speed the adoption of renewable energy, by building low or no cost solar power in unlikely places, and teaching community members how they can do the same. Because if we’re going to solve the climate crisis, everyone has to be part of the solution. They can then use all the money they save to support their communities how they best see fit.  Think that’s a good idea? Then learn more about how you can help, and how you can do the same in your area.

http://www.blackrocksolar.org/