Green Media Mediography – Utrecht University

Eco Lifestyle Careers and NPCs (The Sims 4)

In the base game of The Sims 4 withe the Eco Lifestyle expansion, the environmental systems sometimes feel more like a top-down macro-level simulation. The ecological footprint meter and regulatory NPCs like the Eco Inspector reflect the state of the players’s lot but don’t afford much input or self-expression. Gauntlet101010’s Eco Lifestyle Careers and NPCs

Post Growth Toolkit: The Game

Developed by the art and research collective Disnovation.org, Post Growth Toolkit: The Game is a tactical intervention into how we conceptualize the climate crisis. Most commercial environmental simulation games like SimCity or more recent ‘green-tech’ city builders operate within a neoliberal framework, challenging players to optimize resources, deploy eco-friendly upgrades, and manage carbon metrics, all

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

“My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future”. The British filmmaker and naturalist, David Attenborough, has devoted his career to educating people about nature and, more recently, the climate crisis. The 2020 documentary David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet weights in on the climate crisis by aiming to subvert the traditional nature documentary

SimCity BuildIt

SimCity BuildIt is a city-building simulation and strategy game. This mobile game is the latest version of the SimCity franchise. The game challeges users to build their own city that gets more and more complicated. Playes need keep citizens happy and, therefore, need to reduce pollution and build parks for example. Environmental motifs are woven

Civilization VI – Gathering Storm – Renewable Energies Complexity

JNR’s Renewable Energies Complexity frames the climate crisis in Civilization VI as a technological and infrastructure challenge rather than ‘just’ an environmental disaster. While the base game treats renewable energy as a late-game ‘fix’, this mod reframes them as a complex system requiring careful planning and early investment.In the base game, renewable improvements (like solar

Regenerate!

Regenerate! is a collaborative resource management game through which players navigate regenerative land stewardship, sustainable development, and systems design thinking. It was a project of the LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch design challenge and was developed in collaboration with Land Art Generator, Tunnel Monster Collective, and Fly Ranch Project.

Energy Czar

Energy Czar is an early educational simulation game where the president of the United States gives the player full power to guide the country through a 1980s energy crisis. The player has full control over eight energy resources: coal, oil, natural gas, uranium, hydroelectric power, solar power, wind power and biomass. It is possible to promote

Wijk & Water Battle

The objective of Wijk & Water Battle is to provide participants with insights into their water and energy consumption, ultimately encouraging them to change their habits. The pilot launched in the autumn of 2015, involving children from two primary schools in different neighborhoods of Leeuwarden. Over three months, the children teamed up with local residents in a

Fate of the World

Fate of the World not only fosters players' sense of empowerment by putting them in charge of Earth's future, but also supports Anthropogenic Global Climate Change education by founding the game upon actual climate prediction models.

Half-Earth Socialism

Based on the book of Troy Vetesse and Drew Pendergrass, Half-Earth Socialism is a free videogame in which you are tasked with governing the world, reducing humanity greenhouse gas emissions, protecting biodiversity, and reducing the temperature to 1 degree above industrial levels at the year 2100. To reach that objective you’ll have different policy proposals

Terraforming Mars

Terraforming Mars is a board game from 1 to 5 players in which the players take the role of corporations whose role is to terraform and populate the planet Mars to make it suitable for human life. For that, they have to modify the temperature, oxygen and water levels present in the planet, but they

Gigawatt

From the website: “ Medium complexity Euro-style strategy board game The first 100% realistic energy board game, based on data research and interviews with dozens of energy experts Designed by energy specialists and a professional Amsterdam based artist Connect regions to build a European power grid Invest in technology cards, trade and negotiate in energy

In the Heights

In the Heights centers on a variety of characters living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan. At the center of the show is Usnavi, a bodega owner who looks after the aging Cuban lady next door, pines for the gorgeous girl working in the neighboring beauty salon and dreams

Woman at War

Contributed by Tessa Nauta “Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. As Halla’s actions grow bolder,

WWF Free Rivers

The WWF Free Rivers app is an educational tool that teaches its audience about the effects of a river ecosystem on the environment. By including components such as animal life, river maintenance, rehabilitation, and restoration, the app shows the right and wrongs ways a river can be treated.

Vestiaire Collective

Vestiaire Collective is an app that lets its users sell second-hand designer and luxury fashion. The app helps spread awareness on how designer clothes are a part of environmental problems such as overproduction and overconsumption of the fashion industry.

Solar Power

A psychedelic/folk-pop album by New Zealand -born artist Lorde. The album deals with nature as a an escapist haven, introspection, climate anxiety, and more through its lyrics, sonic themes and organic recordings such as the chirping of Cicadas.

The Spill

In this game, an offshore rig by the name of DeepWell 4 has blown out and the rupture is spilling crude oil into the ocean at an alarming rate. Players form a response team and must work together, using individual talents to avert an ecological disaster.

NMF.earth

NMF.earth is an app that calculates various kinds of carbon emission and guides users to reduce them by setting goals for a 'monthly budget'.

Yuka

Yuka deciphers the compositions of food and cosmetic products and evaluates their health impacts for the consumers through a simple scan.

Labels for your Planet

Labels for your Planet is an app that promotes responsible consumption through providing information on eco-labels and seals.

EcoCRED

EcoCRED: Do your part for the planet!

Save the Kiwi

Save the Kiwi is conceptualized targeting at food waste management.

RecycleNation

RecycleNation is an informative app that aims to increase responsible recycling rates in the US by making recycling easier for everyone involved.