06 | Clean Water and Sanitation – Green Media Mediography test

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3 October 2021, 5:56 pm. Are we witnessing here a historical moment? The CEO’s of six of the most polluting Dutch companies jointly decide to change their course drastically. Because they have to. Otherwise there is no future, nor for their shareholders either. “Shell is quitting oil, since this morning we have stopped pumping”, Shell

Mutate or Die: Neo-Lamarckian Ecogames and Responsible Evolution

Terra Nil

From the game’s website: “Terra Nil is a reverse city builder about ecosystem reconstruction. Turn a barren wasteland into an ecological paradise complete with different flora and fauna. Then clean up, leaving the environment pristine. Subverting the builder genre, Terra Nil is about the restoration of a ravaged environment.” “Terra Nil, from eco-warriors Free Lives

Indie City-Building Games Finally Reckon With Climate Change

City- and empire-builders like Cities: Skylines totally simplify the climate crisis, if they address it at all. A new wave of titles are far more complex.

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.

Fishing For Fishies

A boogie/blues-rock album by Australian band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. The album deals with several environmental topics, including overfishing, animal cruelty, and the overuse of plastic, all from a silly retro-futuristic perspective.

Pollution in Super Mario Sunshine

Super Mario Sunshine is a 3D platforming game that came out on the Nintendo Gamecube. In the game, Mario and his crew go on a vacation, but Mario is falsely accused of polluting Delfino Island. Along the way, Princess Peach gets kidnapped. The only way for Mario to leave the island is to clean up

Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines is a city building game released by Paradox Interactive in 2015. The player is challenged to build, maintain, and control or manage a city. In Cities: Skylines, the theme of sustainability plays an important role. Cities: Skylines makes the player an ecological citizen. You are an ecological citizen when you as an individual

Costing the Earth

Costing the Earth is a environmental radio broadcast that airs on BBC Radio 4. The series describes itself as "Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet".

The Earthshot Prize: Repairing our Planet

This documentary series is made by The Earthshot Prize in collaboration with the BBC, and looks into solutions that promise to deliver a sustainable world in which both nature and humanity can thrive. The project aims to generate new ways of thinking, as well as new technologies, systems, policies, and solutions.

Humanity’s Impact – How many plastic bottles do we produce?

Our planet is flooded with single use plastics such as plastic bottles. Did you know that globally, we produce about 1 million plastic bottles every minute? What does that number even look like? This Studio Birthplace production – made with CG partners Method and Madness – makes the invisible story visible, so we can better

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

FernGully is the story of the magical fairy inhabitants of a rainforest, who attempt to protect the forest from logging and polution. It portrays the intersection of transnational activism, corporate environmentalism, and technologies that accelerated and globalized the production process.

Elysium

Elysium tells the story of a future where the Earth has been driven to the brink of ruin, where the very wealthy have retreated to living on a man-made luxurious space station. The film touches upon multiple important issues such as health care, immigration, economic inequality, and environmental decay.

Timberborn

Timberborn is a beaver city-building game with a unique architecture system, wooden machinery, dams and water physics. By labelling the game an examples of "lumberpunk" (supported e.g. by the title), Timberborn taps into the current trend of differentiate -punk movements, communicating topicality and a larger world view than just one game.

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.

Ganga

You are in a race to save the Ganga ecosystem from extinction and loss. The crops, trees, birds and animals depend on you to rescue them from pollution, pandemics and over population. It is a race to save the cities in the Indo-Gangetic Plains Ecosystem through which the mighty river Ganga flows. She is not

Gun Island

Gun Island is set in an ecologically unstable world, telling a story of places where rising temperatures and water levels have uprooted human and animal lives and upended political systems.

Ocean Bottle

From K8: “The Ocean Bottle concept was first introduced to K8 in early 2018, by founder, Will Pearson. Will and his team, based at London Business School, saw that in order to help put a stop to ocean plastic they needed to come up with a systematic solution to incentivise plastic recycling before it reaches

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.

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.