Burning Man is underway this week. The art gathering and do-it-yourself festival traces its origins to 1986, to a beach in San Francisco. But these days, the massive event takes place outside Reno, ...

Burning Man is an annual event in the western part of the United States that focuses on art, community building, and self-expression. However, this year's celebration in Black Rock City, Nevada, was ...

In Mashable’s series Wasted, we dig into the myriad ways we’re trashing our planet. Because it’s time to sober up. First, let's be clear: Burning Man did not invent the instruction to "Leave No Trace.

“Have you heard of the world’s oldest MOOP?” Haley Anthonisen asks, using the Burning Man acronym that stands for “matter out of place” (which is playa slang for trash). I shake my head, and she ...

'MOOP,' Arin Crumley's much-delayed follow-up to 2005's 'Four Eyed Monsters,' goes with the flow at Burning Man. By John DeFore An innocent bystander to Arin Crumley’s MOOP might describe the ...

MOOP The Lake will be holding a cleanup on several different beaches around Lake Tahoe from Tuesday, Sept. 8, through Thursday, Sept. 10. MOOP is a term derived from the Burning Man event that stands ...

MOOP The Lake held a cleanup on several different beaches around Lake Tahoe on Sept 8-10. Even with Forest Service closures at many of the planned cleanup locations, Tahoe Burners cleaned up 21 ...

“I was actually trying to make a dress, and it went horribly, horribly wrong,” Wendy Downs told me with a charming, self-deprecatory laugh. “It just kind of lay around for a while, and I kept looking ...