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Let’s Play Carbon Crunch – A Game for Climate Action Planning
- Colorado State University (CO)
Trying to reduce your institutions carbon emissions? Play ‘Carbon Crunch’ – a game of strategy, risk, collaboration, chance, and innovation. Tasked with achieving your university's carbon reduction goals, you and ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Bringing Out the Change-Maker in All of Us
- City University of New York, Hunter College (NY)
- PIPS Education Fund (NY)
Can you think of any games that use some form of currency (coins, tokens, etc.) to encourage people to keep playing? Have you ever gotten hooked on such a game ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Using Climate Change Games in the Classroom
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
- AASHE (MA)
As global concerns about climate change continue to grow, we must consider diverse ways to engage and motivate young people on topics related to ecological harms. It is imperative for ...
- Posted June 7, 2022
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Using a Cooperative Educational Game to Promote Pro-Environmental Engagement in Future Teachers
- Universidad de Granada
This paper explores the value of cooperative games in enhancing knowledge and generating pro-environmental engagement in students. For this, an educational board game related to global change was developed, validated ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Climate Action Simulation (With en-Roads): A Group Role-Playing Game
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
In a lightning fast and immersive method that the presenters have perfected in numerous online trainings, participants will learn how to facilitate a group role-playing simulation (which functions as a ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Collaborative Back-casting Game for Audacious Sustainability Visions
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
Several sustainability researchers that collaborate with cities have proposed a visioning game to connect audacious goals with action-oriented strategies (Reutter, 2018; Withycombe Keeler, Beaudoin, Lerner, John, Beecroft, Tamm, Wiek, Lang ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Global Innovation Challenge (WMGIC)
- College of William & Mary (VA)
WMGIC is the premier intercollegiate hack-a-thon style international and sustainable development case competition aimed at encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration to create innovative solutions to current global issues.
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Virtual Energy Treasure Hunt Event
- Suffolk County Community College (NY)
In April 2021, Suffolk County Community College hosted our first US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Treasure Hunt Event. The DOE describes the Treasure Hunt as “One of the best ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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The Power Game: Developing Influence and Negotiation Skills for Sustainable Development
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This paper describes the outcomes of a game designed to teach advanced leadership skills, specifically influence and negotiation strategies, to current and aspiring sustainability professionals at Virginia Tech’s Center ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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Effectiveness of digital games in producing environmentally friendly attitudes and behaviors: A mixed methods study
- Purdue University (IN)
Awareness of environmental sustainability issues alone is not enough. Environmental Sustainability Education (ESE) should produce changes in attitude and encourage lifelong behaviors. However, behavioral changes are curtailed by constraints and ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Assessment of the Development of Professional Skills in University Students: Sustainability and Serious Games
- Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Bizkaia)
- Camara Bilbao University Business School (Vizcaya)
In this study, we analyze the development of key professional skills for sustainability (KPSS) in university students using serious games (SG) from a sustainability perspective. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Basic Sustainability Co-Curricular Course
- Universidad de Monterrey
In Latin-American countries, and specifically in Mexico I have noticed students lack sustainability literacy, and always think sustainability is about planting trees and recycling. One of the goals of the ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Design Your Own Ecovillage: Playing the Ecovillage Game to Explore Sustainability
- State University of New York at Potsdam (NY)
Ecovillages are living laboratories of sustainability and they can be found all over the world. They are intentional or traditional communities 'using local participatory processes to holistically integrate ecological, economic ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Climate Change Escape Room
- Harvard University (MA)
In April 2019, the Resource Efficiency Program (REP) constructed and staffed a climate change themed escape room. Each minute in the room equated to four years of climate change impacting ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Enhancing student engagement in business sustainability through games
- University of Worcester
This paper aims to explore the value students place on the sustainable strategies game (SSG) which seeks to improve student engagement in business sustainability through enhanced game-based learning. This game ...
- Posted Oct. 23, 2018
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Penn State Green Team
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
The Penn State Green Team hosted an earth day jeopardy competition with the College of the Liberal Arts department and the help of the Sustainability Institute every one enjoyed Earth ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Facilitating a World Climate Negotiation Simulation
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
The World Climate Simulation has been run with over 35,000 people in nearly 80 countries to enable people to experience the dynamics of the UN climate negotiations. Join this ...
- Posted April 26, 2018
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Waste Reduction Twister at Elon University
- Elon University (NC)
Elon student and Eco-Rep Tori Ippolito created a twister game which focuses on waste reduction. The spinner indicates different types of materials found on campus, with a guide to indicate ...
- Posted April 25, 2018
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New App Leverages Power of Rewards Currency, Smart Tech and Games to Drive Purposeful Engagement Among Students
- PIPS Education Fund (NY)
Calls by the new U.S. President to roll back environmental, health and justice protections has left many students feeling insecure and concerned for their futures. Interestingly, a campus' overall ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Motivating and Quantifying the Impacts of Behavior Change
- Stanford University (CA)
In today's increasingly technological and personalized world, how do sustainability professionals provide opportunities to engage their audience in a way that is relevant to them? Stanford has taken the ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Gamification and Socialization of Sustainable Habits at Boston University Using the JouleBug Mobile App
- Boston University (MA)
- Joulebug (NC)
This session will be an overview of the JouleBug sustainability platform, as well as a discussion of Boston University's specific experience with the platform, from both a student and ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Catch: A Face-to-Face Dynamic Simulation Game for Teaching About Renewable Natural Resource Management and Sustainability
- Western Michigan University (MI)
Catch© is free, fun and innovative, face-to-face systems dynamic simulation game that responds to the need for new, core-competency based pedagogical resources for teaching about the challenges of transformative change ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Using role-playing games to broaden engineering education
- Chalmers University of Technology
Purpose: In today’s complex society, there is an increasing demand to include a wider set of skills in engineering curricula, especially skills related to policy, society and sustainable development ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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PowerZee – Sustainable Change through User Engagement
- Nanyang Technological University
- ENGIE (TX)
PowerZee (formerly PowerZ) is a smartphone application (‘app’) developed by NTU, along with industry partner ENGIE, for energy conservation and sustainability through user engagement. The application fosters knowledge and nudges ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Making Sustainable Development Real Through Role-Play: “The Mekong Game” Example
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This paper describes a role-playing, negotiation “game” based on the Xayaburi Dam in Laos. We have used this activity in our graduate programs as a tool for bringing to life ...
- Posted Feb. 20, 2017
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The use of educational game design and play in higher education to influence sustainable behaviour
- Cardiff University
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss a novel life cycle approach to education for sustainable development (ESD) where the students become “design thinkers”.
Design/methodology/approach - A ...
- Posted Feb. 13, 2017
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Offset: The Card Game
- Duke University (NC)
The Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative (DCOI) educates students, staff, and faculty at Duke University about a variety of topics relating to carbon offsets. However, these topics can be difficult to ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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The mercury game: evaluating a negotiation simulation that teaches students about science-policy interactions
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
Environmental negotiations and policy decisions take place at the science-policy interface. While this is well known within academic literature, it is often difficult to convey how science and policy interact ...
- Posted Aug. 22, 2016
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Toxic Release! The role of educational games in teaching and learning about hazardous pollution
- State University of New York at Plattsburgh (NY)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
The compounding elements of toxic releases make teaching and learning about them difficult. For example, toxic releases have multifarious source/sink dynamics, high-stakes risk profiles, complex timelines, and passionate stakeholders ...
- Posted Aug. 22, 2016
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Post Occupancy Evaluation: A Classic Detective Game
- Kirksey Architecture (TX)
Buildings everywhere are underperforming relative to the goals they were designed to meet. Post-occupancy evaluations (POEs) are an effective method to uncover performance problems through assessments of energy use, indoor ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Hair dryers, gaming systems, and fans: Engaging an online Social Psychology Class in an Energy Competition for Residence Halls
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
This presentation describes the development, implementation, and outcomes of an online Social Psychology class project designed to reduce energy consumption among students living in a campus residence hall. The co-curricular ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Gamifying getting around
- My Open Road (CA)
How to encourage the use of alternative transportation both on and off campus through social competition and reward incentives.
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Pushing The Boundaries Of Student Sustainability Competitions With The Kukui Cup
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
In order to meet the sustainability challenges we face in higher education and the world, we need to understand the impact of our behavior, and what we can do to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green League: An Innovative Tool for Employee Learning & Engagement
- Michigan State University (MI)
This presentation will discuss the criteria and outcomes of a web-based game designed to engage foster a deeper understanding of sustainability for non-credit faculty and staff who are volunteer "environmental ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Reboot-Fun and Engaging Online Sustainability Game
- University of Missouri (MO)
REBOOT is a mobile/online game for sustainability education and action created by the MU Sustainability Office and multiple partners. REBOOT is a high-tech scavenger hunt that for ten weeks ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Transforming Connectivity: Fusing Gaming and Social Networks to Forge Deeper Connections
- New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJ)
Our society's obsession with screens, games, and online social networks is a powerful tool for change that is currently misdirected and underutilized. Without a radically transformative approach in improving ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Would You Like Crabs With That? A Complex Systems Simulation of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- University of Virginia (VA)
Over the past two years an interdisciplinary group of faculty from a major research university has designed and built a web-based multiplayer simulation game of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Energy Future Game
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
This poster will present the Energy Future Game. This game is a simple spreadsheet where the student's goal is to fill in the energy future of the United States ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Global Trade Game
- Bellevue College (WA)
One of the ways I like to assess student learning is through class games. I use this particular game to assess knowledge about globalization and the stake holders involved in ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Externalities in Microeconomics
- Harper College (IL)
This assignment will be introduced when externalities is being taught in the course. In microeconomics externalities is a cost (negative) or benefit (positive) that is not passed on to the ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Powerz - Garden Your Campus @ NTU
- Nanyang Technological University
- ENGIE (TX)
The Energy Research Institute (ERI@N) and ENGIE (formerly GDF Suez), a leader in energy services and solutions, launched a large-scale pilot project, called POWERZ, on the NTU Campus.
NTU ...
- Posted June 10, 2015
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