Every morning a little after 11 o’clock, Jessica Radford Hoelle would lift her slender self off of the chaise longue where she had been recovering — either from a night out in Black Rock City or an early-morning rope bondage seminar — slip her pedicured feet into her fuzzy pink flip-flops and saunter over to her sporty black Volkswagen New Beetle TDI, parked in the shade just behind her camp. As the day’s participants in the Burning Man Alternative Energy Zone Tour shuffled into place around her, Hoelle, like a spokesmodel at an auto show, would begin her presentation on the benefits and virtues of biodiesel. Every morning I’d stand in awe at how rapt her audience was. No one drifted away. No... More >>>