Motif: Ecological Literacy

Unlike environmental literacy, which focuses on action, ecological literacy emphasizes the need for knowledge to make informed decisions. It is gained through the scientific method, including observation and experimentation, and involves understanding cause-and-effect relationships and using systems thinking for informed decision-making.
McBride, B. B., C. A. Brewer, A. R. Berkowitz, and W. T. Borrie. 2013. “Environmental Literacy, Ecological Literacy, Ecoliteracy: What Do We Mean and How Did We Get Here?” Ecosphere 4 (5): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1890/es13-00075.1.

Unlike environmental literacy, which focuses on action, ecological literacy emphasizes the need for knowledge to make informed decisions. It is gained through the scientific method, including observation and experimentation, and involves understanding cause-and-effect relationships and using systems thinking for informed decision-making.
McBride, B. B., C. A. Brewer, A. R. Berkowitz, and W. T. Borrie. 2013. “Environmental Literacy, Ecological Literacy, Ecoliteracy: What Do We Mean and How Did We Get Here?” Ecosphere 4 (5): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1890/es13-00075.1.

ABZÛ

In the game ABZÛ, the player takes on the role of a diver in a part of the ocean. Without any knowledge on himself, the environment, or the purpose of being there, it is up to the player to discover the secrets of the deep sea. During this adventure, the player will swim alongside all

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.

Red Dead Redemption Online: Naturalist

Red Dead Redemption 2 is Western themed action game. Its online mode features various different roles you can take on in the wild west. One of these roles is the naturalist role, where the player plays a conservationist storyline.

The Botanical Revolution: On the Necessity of Art and Gardening

An art exhibition that features an array of modern artistic interpretations of the ecological and shifting cultural importance of the garden. The exhibition seeks to stimulate ecological awareness and tries to educate its visitors on garden practices and views on nature throughout history while emphasizing the Anthropocene.

Surviving Mars: Green Planet

“Build a sustainable colony in space.” The premise of Surviving Mars (2018) is simple, but the challenges presented in the game are not; the Red Planet is unforgiving and full of dangers. Your colonists are only safe in glass domes; both oxygen and water have to be gathered, refined and stored in metal structures; food

Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday revolves around Taeko, who takes a holiday from her busy office work in Tokyo. The film synthesizes the ecological objective for sustainable, organic farming with the individual's mental well-being.

For Good

"For Good is the first app to measure your total ecological footprint and show exactly what you can do to live more sustainably."

Planet A

Earth is our planet A that needs to be protected. Players need to contribute to saving the planet by braving natural catastrophes, political parties that compromise environmental health for economic goals, the extinction of species that destabilize the earth’s fragile ecosystem. The 105 different playing cards represent everyday objects and ideas related to sustainability. The

We Don’t Have Time

We Don't Have Time is the world’s largest social network for climate action, connecting "everyone who wants to solve the climate crisis".

Solutions

From the website: “It’s a race against time to fight climate change. You and your friends must work together to reduce global emissions before it’s too late! As you strategically deploy various climate solutions, you will be tested on your knowledge and your ability to prioritize. You will need to think critically about each solution

City Rain

City Rain lets the player take on the role of member of the Rescue And Intervention Non-Profit (RAIN) organization. The player has to help reorganize cities in order to make them become environmentally friendly.

Citizen Science

Citizen Science is an adventure pizzle game where the player is tasked to help stop the pollution of the local lake through time travel. The player has to gather data and evidence in order to create arguments that are key to change the future.

World Rescue

World Rescue is a narrative, research-based video-game inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Through fast-paced gameplay set in Kenya, Norway, Brazil, India, and China, players meet and help five young heroes and help them solve global problems—such as displacement, disease, deforestation, drought, and pollution—at the community level.

WWF Panda Junior

WWF Panda Junior lets the player play as either Alex or Emma as they discover the African continent. The game is dedicated to a young audience from 6 to 9 years old. During their journey the players will meet lots of different animals, unfortunately tourists and hunters will try to stop the players from progressing.

Environmental literacy, ecological literacy, ecoliteracy: What do we mean and how did we get here?

“The most widely accepted meaning of environmental literacy is that it comprises an awareness of and concern about the environment and its associated problems, as well as the knowledge, skills, and motivations to work toward solutions of current problems and the prevention of new ones.” “Characterization of ecological literacy within the field of ecology has

Pipe Trouble

Pipe Trouble lets the player take on the role of a gas company that has to lay down gas pipes. The puzzle game requires the player to build profitable gas pipes, by making them as short as possible, whilst taking in account what both the community and government think about the position of your gaspipes.

Climate Crisis

Climate Crisis lets the players cooperatively, or competitively research technologies which can change the course of our climate crisis. The players have to manage the needs for energy producting whilst keeping the population nourished. During the play session the players face numerous environmental challenges. The game can be played by 1 to 6 players.