EfficienCity

Greenpeace UK's website has a cool little simulation called EfficienCity that shows a bunch of climate-friendly innovations implemented without much change in the way people live. I think that the graphical, nonlinear interface is definitely a step in the right direction in terms of drawing people's interest. On the whole I tend to think that these things would be more effective if some sort of interactivity were involved, creating a sort of game, but if Greenpeace made a game about a climate-friendly city, it would probably suck. A lot. Of course, the changes shown in the simulated city would work better in places where people live in more concentrated areas with access to public transit, but it's nice to see semi-realistic possibilities of what people could do. After all, if we need to cut emissions to 80% less than 1990 levels by 2050, we have to get started now.