After a colleague led a training in using Climate Interactive’s role playing exercises, Professor Michele Putko ran with the idea and is now teaching her college engineering students to run the workshops themselves for high school audiences. Michele’s undergraduates have already reached 100 high school students at 3 different schools. This is tapping into a powerful […]
Hewlett Foundation Awards Climate Interactive Major Grant To Launch User-Friendly Climate and Energy Model
The Hewlett Foundation has awarded Climate Interactive a $200,000 grant to support the research, development, and public release of the simulation En-ROADS. The tool, which builds on the award-winning C-ROADS model, enables people to create and test long-term scenarios for success on climate through a variety of policy and investment levers. With En-ROADS, anyone can explore the […]
Beth Sawin at UMass Lowell: Climate Change Solutions for the Future We Need
Creating workable solutions to climate change isn’t easy, but human beings have a history of overcoming obstacles in difficult times (as we’ve said before, ending the slave trade was once similarly thought of as impossible). In her speech at a teach-in at UMass Lowell, Climate Interactive Co-Director Beth Sawin reminded us that enormous progress on […]
Students Showcase our Interactive Climate Tools to Enthusiastic Crowds
At the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference in Boston, thousands got the opportunity to see a demonstration of some of our latest tools and some new interactive exercises to help people understand climate change. The exhibit was put together and led by University of Massachusetts Lowell professor Juliette Rooney-Varga […]
The Power of Games: Changing our Mental Models
Guest post by Cecelia Hunt: Simulation games, like Climate Interactive’s World Climate Exercise, have the capacity to shift mental models. Mental models are frameworks that we construct subconsciously, which help us to understand and predict the world around us. They are dynamic and change based on our understanding of reality. Our mental models serve as […]
Students Experience Climate Negotiations in Simulation-Based Role-play Exercise
Providing a look at the reactions and lessons learned after participating in the World Climate Exercise, the video below shares new insights into the experiences of World Climate participants. Professor Juliette Rooney-Varga’s students entered class a few weeks ago, unsure of what to expect from the day’s class. They had been told they were going […]