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[http://www.avantgame.com/ Jane McGonigal] talks with Daniel Zalewski about alternate-reality gaming. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference. You can play future forecasting game, [http://www.superstructgame.org/ Superstruct] from Institute for the Future, which has the potential to affect the real world.  Earlier game project, [http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/ World Without Oil]
 
[http://www.avantgame.com/ Jane McGonigal] talks with Daniel Zalewski about alternate-reality gaming. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference. You can play future forecasting game, [http://www.superstructgame.org/ Superstruct] from Institute for the Future, which has the potential to affect the real world.  Earlier game project, [http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/ World Without Oil]
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Let me know if you find other green [http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003711.html "serious games"] pmmckerc@ucsc.edu
  
  
 
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Revision as of 17:49, 8 August 2009

Remember, none of this content has been reviewed by anyone. It is, however, a way to see different points of view on current events.


Blogs

Top 35 Green blogs, according to Read/Write/Web

Dot Earth, NYT reporter Andrew C. Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits

Earthfirst (not to be confused with Earthfirst!, the direct action group) recently recognized UCSC's green leadership.

Mark Hertsgaard

Energy, Food, Environment by Dustin Mulvaney, College 8 instructor.

Eco-Blog Index

another Eco-Blog Index

http://gristmill.grist.org/ GristMill You can comment on stories here.

Wendy's Blog

The Environmental Blog

by Environmental Working Group, with links to other sites/blogs

Outside Magazine blog

Treehugger.com

Social Networks

Brilliant video explaining Web 2.0 issues such as tagging ****

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. TEDtalk video.

Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/tag/environment

http://del.icio.us/tag/green

http://del.icio.us/tag/sustainability

http://del.icio.us/tag/sustainableliving

http://del.icio.us/tag/ecodesign

Digg http://digg.com/environment

Hugg is like Digg for the environment http://www.hugg.com/

tag cloud http://www.hugg.com/Tagadelic Tag cloud


Virtual Reality/Gaming

Second Life is a virtual world that allows people to build almost anything and invite the world in to experience it. It has its own economy, and some people have built worlds that include working model ecosystems. Because it includes community, an economy, and ecosystems, it present interesting possibilities to explore the interaction between the three. Interview with creator of Virtual Reality eco-village in Second Life, Etopia. Some of these virtual worlds are already having real world effects, such as this one for the rain forest. Adding techology such as the Wii to interact with rich virtual worlds give them additional potential, including training.

Will Wright, creator of SimCity created the mind-blowing Spore, a game for investigating evolution & complexity TEDtalk video. ****

"Saving the World Through Game Design" (video) Jane McGonigal talks with Daniel Zalewski about alternate-reality gaming. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference. You can play future forecasting game, Superstruct from Institute for the Future, which has the potential to affect the real world. Earlier game project, World Without Oil

Let me know if you find other green "serious games" pmmckerc@ucsc.edu