What is Ripple?

A station for the regeneration of native biodiversity and ecological knowledge, Ripple is an engaging educational space for community gatherings, workshops, and projects.

As of Summer 2022, prototyping has commenced for a permanent installation at Fly Ranch, a bountiful 3,800-acre plot of land in Nevada owned by Burning Man Project.

How did this happen?

Ripple won the Land Art Generator Initiative’s (LAGI) 2020 design challenge. The community liked our direction and has given us land to build Ripple alongside 9 other incredible projects.

Our transdisciplinary team consists of eco-tech designers, engineers, and horticulturalists, just to name a few. As of March 2022 we are fiscally sponsored by the 501(c)3 Far Away Projects so all donations towards Ripple Project are tax-exempt!

WHY RIPPLE?

We believe the Great Basin is special and should be protected.

Ripple offers the social, technological, and ecological infrastructure for us to protect it.

Photo: Steve Tietze ibareitall.com

VISION

A world of individuals empowered to regenerate cultural and ecological resilience through the support of a responsive community.

MISSION

Create the first self-reliant Ripple Base at Fly Ranch as a tool for building a responsive community to regenerate the cultural and ecological resilience of the Great Basin Region.

Ecological (Eco)

A central geodesic dome contains a seed bank and library and is engulfed by waves of native permaculture gardens and restoration plants. 

Technology (Tech)

Energy, water and waste systems efficiently capture and reuse all available resources on site to make it fully self-reliant.

The Ripple base sustains itself in an off-grid fashion with a backbone of shelter, water, energy, food, and regeneration technologies.

The Ripple base sustains itself in an off-grid fashion with a backbone of shelter, water, energy, food, and regeneration technologies.

A composting toilet requiring no water nor electricity provides fertilizer to non-edible plants found in the restoration ecotone.

A composting toilet requiring no water nor electricity provides fertilizer to non-edible plants found in the restoration ecotone.

Invasive plant detritus is turned into soil after being collected by restoration crews at Fly Ranch.

Invasive plant detritus is turned into soil after being collected by restoration crews at Fly Ranch.

The restoration ecotone offers habitat, pollen, and nourishment for native flora and fauna.

The restoration ecotone offers habitat, pollen, and nourishment for native flora and fauna.

The permaculture gardens offer a space for plants grown mostly for their edible, medicinal, or otherwise ceremonial uses.

The permaculture gardens offer a space for plants grown mostly for their edible, medicinal, or otherwise ceremonial uses.

All plants grown are drought resistant and native to Fly Ranch. (Click photo expand).

All plants grown are drought resistant and native to Fly Ranch. (Click photo expand).

Foraged native seeds replenish the seed bank, which allows for seed dissemination to locals and for restoration efforts at Fly Ranch.

Foraged native seeds replenish the seed bank, which allows for seed dissemination to locals and for restoration efforts at Fly Ranch.

A library inside the dome preserves important cultural and scientific information such as traditional ecological knowledge of the Great Basin region.

A library inside the dome preserves important cultural and scientific information such as traditional ecological knowledge of the Great Basin region.

The seed bank and library are a dynamic bridge between the past, present, and future.

The seed bank and library are a dynamic bridge between the past, present, and future.

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