Environmental Games+ Real Life Environmental Games That Protect Planet Earth
Earth E Honors is a excellent real-life environmental game that rewards environmental action. Check out this fun eco game at www.earthehonors.org. Free materials for this Earth Game are available too -- including card and board game versions. Lots of fun, fast play, good for years 9 to adult. Membership cards too.Earth E Honors teaches players how to use eco money, eco rewards, eco kisses, eco hugs, green games and eco arts to honor friends, customers and others for helping protect our exquisite planet.
To help manifest a world that honors people for helping the planet, and stops rewarding people when they hurt it ::
1/ Give Earth Es to friends and others for taking eco actions and for their eco choices.
2/ Give Earth Es to friends for completing an eco Challenge you have given them.
3/ Create and share your Earth E ideas, actions and pics via Facebook and Flick'r. more>
Vox Erth is a call to all musicians, writers, artists and fans to help create a wave of art, words, songs and media that is a voice (vox) for our exquisite biosphere. Get a chance to win some cool prizes and up to $4,444 in this eco-logical music and songwriting game. See VoxErth.org for ways to play this eco-game and to help protect our planet.Ways to play the Vox Erth game::
1/ If you are a songwriter, artist or writer, collaborate with VoxErth or work on your own to create media about crucial eco issues. Everybody get's an equal chance to win the prizes and $4K.
2/ If you are a fan, sponsor one of VoxErth's eco songs, videos, artistic or media projects that focuses on an eco issue that you care about. Fans get a chance to win the prizes and $4K too.
VoxErth's music project is called *140,000 Love Songs for the Earth*. Check out VoxErth.net to see how to play the VoxErth music game. more>
Draw or sew an XO or XOXOe (as the human and the Earth) on your clothing, skin*, belongings or on an XO bracelet to show that you take 1 or more eco actions every day -- and to help manifest a bold Team Earth.To join XO Earth ::
1/ Take 1 or more ecological actions every day to protect our exquisite biosphere.
2/ Draw, paint or sew a blue or green XO or XOXOe (with the human as the X, and the Earth as the O) on your clothing, personal belongings, skin* and/or on a XO headband that you make.
3/ Help others put on the XO for taking eco actions every day, and for joining Team Earth.
XO Options ::
• Blue or green pens, markers, paint or embroidery can be used to put the XO on clothing and belongings. On the skin use ballpoint pens as they are non-toxic by law, eyeliner water based pastels.
• Print and sign the XO Earth member card, and print cards to give to friends.
• Make XO Earth bracelets, anklets, hats and flags with strips of fabric and markers.
• Check out section 1 for sweet ways to score 1 or more for the planet every day.
• Win XO Earth Credit/$ (including discounts) at participating stores and/or enter EcoLotto. more>
First use our ecofx.org tools to estimate the area of the habitat saved by a friend's or your environmental actions.
Then play the ecofx/ EarthE Dance game -- with its eco rad dance moves -- to thank your friends for taking environmental actions that help save habitat potential and its lifeforms.
One way to do the ecofx/ EarthE Dance is to do the twist or freestyle - for, or with, a friend along the border of an area on the ground that represents the approximate area of habitat saved by that friend's environmental action. Add your ecofx / EarthE Dance ideas and videos to ecofx Facebook and EarthE Facebook. more>
This EarthE Game is played like rock, paper, scissors (r.p.g.) except that the fist (rock) stands for Team, flat hand (paper) stands for Art, and the V fingers (scissors) stands for Logic. A tie stands for Love.
Team, Art, Logic and Love (TALL) are the four basic ways to help protect the planet -- as described in the XO Earth pledge.
As in most EarthE Games, player1 offers to give a player2 a chance to win something as a reward for a specific eco action that player2 has taken or agreed to take.
Prizes may be anything player1 wants to offer -- such as a joke, a cartwheel, a poem, a hand massage, food, or tea.
Instructions for this game is at EarthE.org/Games.
The Earth Citizens Accord. is a real-life environmental game/ Earth Game.
The Earth Citizens Accord is a call to all Earth lovers to stand united in a goal to give 4% or more of their time and/or income back to the planet each month. By scoring 1% or more in each of the 4 dimensions — Team, Art, Logic and Love — every Earth Citizens Accord participant helps empower and unite global ecological movements that are working to protect the planet.
Plus, Earth Citizens Accord signers can get music, art, other Earth E rewards, and even $4,444 in the ECOLotto for meeting their goals, as well as discounts and rewards from participating businesses.
Research on detergents and toxic cleansers is continually discovering more ways that these dangerous chemicals are making us sick and our planet sad. However, the Super Six - vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice, salt, vegetable soap and borax - are 2 to 2000 times less dangerous, plus they cost less and they can tackle virtually any cleaning job.
Once you start using lemon juice, baking soda, vinegar, salt, vegetable soap and borax, your life may seem to safe for you. Therefore, every time you use one of the Super Six instead of a detergent or toxic cleanser give yourself one XO Thrill or XO Danger Credit. Keep track of your XO Thrill or XO Danger Credits. Then, for every 60 XO Thrill or XO Danger Credits you have earned, reward yourself with 60 minutes of a fun exciting adventure that is a little Dangerous!! Tell others how you earn your XO Thrill and XO Danger credits by posting them on XO Earth's Facebook page. [Dangerous can mean physical, mental or spiritual danger. GreenTopia is NOT responsibe for any injury resulting from an individual's use of their GREEN THRILL credits.]
It takes a specific quantity of plants and creatures in every ECOSYSTEM for it to survive. There is a point where destroying only one pound of the life-forms biomass in an ECOSYSTEM can be the catalyst that results in the destruction of thousands [or even millions] of pounds of plants and animals. One example is that even small amounts of pollution can be the catalyst that destroys an entire ecosystem - just as a small amount of some poisons can kill a human.
A single pound of pollution may therefore result in the injury or destruction of thousands of pounds of nature's essential BIOMASS. Therefore, for every pound of trash or pollution you consciously do NOT make envision the "Expotential Ecological Potential Possibility" {EEPP} of your environmental choices on your community, its open space, our planet's life forms and your own life. Bonus Points: Help get a Deposit Law on containers in your community and a Tax on excess packaging. Discuss this concept in an editorial to your local newspaper.
The making of a two pound newspaper or a one and a half pound magazine can destroy four pounds of wood and leaves, create 10 grams of pollution, erode one half cup of topsoil and kill numerous innocent forest creatures. And this does not include the timber and paper transportation damage.
When you want a newspaper or magazine, find It Second-Hand and then pass it along or get your information via the net, radio, TV or library. Then, at the end of every month divide the number of days you did not purchase a newsPAPER or magazine by 30. The higher the percentage, the stronger your Ecology Super Hero powers are.
Ecology Super Hero powers can decrease your absorption of pollution, extend your life expectancy, develop your physique, increase your communication with nature and enhance your ability to motivate people. Also, apply this formula to other environmental actions you take. Bonus points: Give a Ecology Super Hero award to a paper conserving business or person each month. Inform local media of the award!
Check out your regional Sierra Club organization.
In honor of our priceless planet, team-up and play on the teams of the Environmental Organizations in your community and country.
Some of the rewards include:
}1{ You can synergize your talents with some friendly people and those witty ecological-scientists.
}2{ You can experience a closer connection to our planet's kindred life forms.
}3{ You will extend your life expectancy.
}4{ You can workout, sing and dance at an "enviro-team" field or office project and picnic.
}5{ You will feel ultra-excellent for helping protect billions living things that do not want to die. Get these rewards and more by volunteering or contributing to any of the Environmental Organizations in your area, and join our www.Greentopia.org projects.
Many health - and environmental - problems are due to small amounts of the thousands of unusual industrial molecules that we are breathing, eating and absorbing through our skin. These molecules are coming from new food packaging, appliances, construction materials, synthetic liquids, hardware items, landfills, incinerators, etc.
However, Reducing and Reusing decreases your contact with these unpredictable chemicals. Therefore, for every pound of material you Reduce or Reuse, you will earn one BOD POP point. The higher your BOD POP score is, the stronger your body and mind will be. Compare your weekly BOD POP score and to how you are feeling. Many BOD POP that you earn will benefit you - and our earth - for the rest of your life. Bonus points: Become an Ecology Super Hero by teaching Reducing and Reusing in your community by using your local media.!!
Check out Earth Island Institute ... an eco-team at the top. If you have name for BOD POP points that you like better, tell us.
On average, for every $30 contribution you make to various environmental organizations, one acre of land or ocean area will be protected. .
Therefore - on a wall map of the world or your region - for every $30 contribution (ecological OPTion) you make, put a pushpin anywhere you want to indicate that you have scored an acre of habitat for the potential land or ocean location you have scored by helped protect! Bonus Points: Ask your employer or a client to pay you with two checks. Have them make out an extra check made out to your chosen environmental group for 10% of the amount you are owed.
ADD 6 MINUTES to your expected lifetime for every NON-organic hamburger you decide NOT to eat. Unless it is U.S. grown, free-range, organic beef, there are also the major dangers of eating pesticides, anti-biotics and hormones.
RAINFORESTs help keep us alive by producing oxygen, absorbing greenhouse and toxic gases. They are also crucial to many of our precious migrating birds. Much of the Central American RAINFOREST destruction is due to slash and burn ranching to raise only four generations of Cows. Three square meters of RAINFOREST disappearing to produce one hamburger here.
Bonus points: Ask all of your local grocery stores to sell ONLY drug free, humanely grown meats and poultry too!
Bio-Forces are the awesome powers and energies that our body and mind create when we live in a healthy environment. Bio-Blasters are manufactured products that can destroy these Bio-Forces. Electrical and fossil-fueled devices, appliances and transportation are Bio-Blasters. They do this by creating unhealthy chemicals that scar our organs and DNA, numb the senses, separate us from nature and stifle our ingenuity. Avoiding an excess of these devices in your life will increase your physical and mental talents and help you generate more Bio-Forces.
For every hour you decide NOT to work for EXCESS money, you will have an extra 1 hour and 20 minutes to recreate and celebrate. The more Money a person makes, the more damaging to the Earth they tend to be. People with lower incomes are by default much more environmentally friendly. In addition, for every hour we work, on average we work another 20 minutes to manage the money we made and/or manage what we buy with the money.
Explore the infinite ways to have a less stressful, extremely fun, ecologically cool life with a small amount of money.!!
Bonus points: When you feel the need to do excess work, team up with any environmental organization or start your own local environmental project.
A Nature Preserve reduces air and water pollution, crime, traffic, shopping malls, taxes, noise and much more. A Nature Preserve increases wildlife songs, plant artistry, your physical energy and mental clarity and much, more. Each of these positive effects of a Nature Preserve is called an ECO-DIVIDEND. You can estimate that you will help create about one ECO-DIVIDEND for every $50.00 you give to a community Nature Preserve every year. Bonus Points: Keep track of the ECO-DIVIDENDs the Nature Preserve has provided and present them to your local media, politicians and businesses. [GREEN+DIVIDENDS]
Many pesticides are used only to effect the appearance of food. Synthetic fertilizers-which are often contaminated with heavy metals and are derived from toxic waste - are being used even though there are huge supplies of organic fertilizers going to waste. Meanwhile, these pesticides and synthetic fertilizers destroy billions of beautiful and ecologically important land and water animals every year.
Luckily, each piece of ORGANICALLY GROWN fruit, vegetable or meat you choose will spare the lives of several creatures and reduce pesticides and heavy metals in your body. You will be healthier because you are eating happy food, which will in turn reduce your medical expenses. Therefore, because you will be saving your money and your health and your environment, from now on add 50 cents to your Recreation Budget for Every Pound of ORGANIC food that you choose instead of NON-organic food.!! Bonus Points: Start a community garden or window garden to grow some of your own ORGANIC vegetables and fruit.
To play on one of the many great Green Teams, you are beseeched to contact any of the diverse Environmental Organizations that protect water, land and air (and therefore protect our climate) in your region. Some of the bennies you can score if you contribute your talents and/or resources to these environmental teams include:
A] Extend your life by preventing a local or global biome disaster.
B] Experience an ecosophical AH-HA-while guffawing with your Ecological-Sci-Geek friends.
C] Pump-up your Earth-hero muscles and cerebrum at an "enviro-team" field or office project combination party.
D] Feel fabuloso for winning a round of defending billions of living things that are savoring life.
Your "enviro-teams" are listed in the yellow pages under Environmental Organizations.
Wherever you live, the greenhouse gases called Nitric Oxide and Sulfur Dioxide are shortening your life. Both compounds can create corrosive acid rains and form carcinogenic molecules. Nitric Oxide is helping over-heat the earth as an extremely efficient greenhouse gas (many times more effectively than CO2). For every 100 miles driven, an average mid-size car will make 100 grams of Sulfur Dioxide, 25 grams of Nitric Oxide and several pounds of other pollutants. An ECOLOGICAL TRAVELER reduces Nitric Oxide pollution by reducing excess transportation and using alternative modes of transportation - such as public transit, carpooling, bicycling and walking.
As an ECOLOGICAL TRAVELER you can extend your life expectancy because you will be creating and breathing less pollution. Therefore, as an estimate, for two miles you reduce your travel distance OR use an environmental mode of transportation, add one Life Extension Minute to your life. Bonus points: Create a carpool and an executive hitch-hiking service and work at home when possible.!!
Every day, a healthy 20 foot TREE removes acid rain from the air, neutralizes pollution in the soil, moderates weather extremes and releases trillions of oxygen molecules. LEAF-LOVERs that go around planting TREEs sometimes become famous Super Green Heroes. These LEAF-LOVERs help protect their community and our world by planting trees and motivating others to plant trees when they are in the news. Bonus Points: Become the one of the famous LEAF-LOVERs and tree ecologists in your region].!!
A community or region with an environmentally conscious government can have thousands of times less pollution than a demographically similar region with a non-environmental government. Every ENVIRONMENTAL VOTER has an effect on the decisions of government and business leaders in our statistically driven society. Each vote is part of a political force that can affect thousands of local and national decisions, policies and laws.
Therefore, for every five EARTH-VOTEs you are responsible for, give yourself credit for one environmental action in government or business that affects your life in a positive way. Bonus points: Create and publicize an EARTH-VOTER award that you give to an environmental business, government official or environmental citizen.!!...
To reward citizens who make choices that benefit our fragile biosphere, GreenTopia is working to create a network of free lotteries through EcoLotto that individuals and businesses can enter to win prizes and an award. To enter, an enviro citizen first determines their personal conservation action GREENCODEs and then makes a sign with their GREENCODEs posted on it. The individual then places their sign in their front window or front yard in order to win awards from a local organization.
GS GOAL> Letting our neighbors know that we are making environmental choices in our life and inviting them to join us in these actions is a crucial aspect of creating a grassroots enviro media movement to protect our priceless blue and green orb. The GreenSign game is about becoming the part of the fabric of an a grassroots environmental media movement.
GS LEVEL EC > Create, post and/or wear your homemade flags and/or signs to show that you agree with and endorse the Earth have your announce your inspire environmental action in your community.
GS GUIDE> GreenSign game flags can be made from a piece of cloth with no pattern and permanent markers. Make a big one flag or sign for your front yard, front window, dashboard and another little one to pin on your clothing. Computer designed signs are fine.
Tiny flags create their own enviro fashion statement when they are pinned on your clothing, are great way to get the word out. Medium sized flags with different messages strung on a single line between a couple of trees in your front yard can also look superb.
Suggested things to write on your flags/signs:
GS SIGNUP> To register as a GreenMatrix Player, please join other players online. Simply post a message with your name or nickname and as the subject of your message thread. Anyone you invite to join your GreenMatrix team is asked to sign you get to play the GreenSign game or any other GreenGame to also go to this page so they can sign up under your message in order to start building your team and get GreenMatrix points.
GS AWARDS> GreenSign players need to recruit at least one other person to participate in the GreenSign or other GreenGame to be eligible for the GreenMatrix awards. The criteria as to who will receive the GreenMatrix awards will be based on how many people a person gets to play the GreenGames and how committed the various players are. Several people on a team may receive the GreenMatrix Award depending on the situation. The GREENMATRIX awards will be presented to individuals and teams who consistantly post and wear flags or signs in their community that encourage environmental consciousness and/or are active in other GreenGames. For now, GreenMatrix Awards are decided upon by an informal GreenMatrix committee.
Level Additional levels of the GreenSign game will be released once the number of players warrents it.
GS BUZZ> Raising our enviro flags and signs is an important stategy to overcome the obnoxious corporate materialistic media. Fly your flags and post your signs in your front yard, on your bike, on your car and little ones on your clothes. Several may be hung a flag pole or on a rope between two poles or trees. become the media with your flags!
GS PROFILE> Bonus Points: To improve your chance of winning the GreenMatrix+ Award by creating an online profile of your environmental position and actions then put a web link to your profile on your flag or sign.
[[ THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS OF THE GAME ARE IN THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE.
GREENSIGN+ LOTTERY:: If you hang at least one flag or sign you can enter an enviro-lottery to win artwork signed by enviro celebrities or enviro products from future sponsors. Rules may be similiar to the GreenCode game described below. For each person you get play the GreenSign game you will get additional lottery entry.
GREENSIGN+ SCORES:: A scoring formula will be created for some of the GreenGames so that players who want to put their GAME SCORES on their flags, signs or online profiles can do so. [Not yet established]
GREENSIGN+ PAGE:: More levels and info on the GREENFLAG> game will be posted eventually on the GreenFlags page.
GREENSIGN+ NOTES:: Use your flags to get people to take enviro oaths and to sign petitions.
GREENSIGN+ PRIZES:: Create a GREENSIGN> team to compete against other GREENSIGN / GREENGAME teams around the world for eco-products like bicycles, eco-clothes, eco-vacations and hybrid cars. GREENSIGN will also have aspects that are similiar to the GREENCODE game described below. ]]
+legs mode:: bike and walk
+legs score formula:: all miles walked and/or biked for transportation per month.
+legs brief:: On average, for every mile walked or driven you are saving the life of 6 non-human life forms creatures give yourself The number of mammals and birds killed by being hit by non-human powered transportation vehicles in the US everyday is at least 7 million.
+legs buzz:: Post your score on your bike or clothes.
g+game mode: conventional travel
g+game formula: all miles traveled by non-mass transportation per month
g+game buzz: Travel includes any commuting, work, errands and vacation travel. It will be a tough for most people to get a high score here, good luck. That's right, even airline miles are included in this formula because whether they are for work or play miles, planes create massive amounts of pollution. Post your score on your bike or clothes.
For individuals that are a current member of a not-for-profit environmental group/organization, they earn a goodly ENV.O code for their sign. The exemplary E code indicates that an individual is contributing at least one-percent (1%) of their net income to one or more environmental organizations OR is volunteering for an average of one hour per-week for an environmental organization. Check your yellow pages under Enviro Orgs.If an individual contributes more than 2 percent or more of their yearly gross income to one or more environmental organizations they may put the powered-up % symbol on their sign. If the person also wants to put the appropriate numerical percentage on their sign that is great too - such as "2%" or "10%".
To qualify for the tasty ALT.TR code an individual must use an alternative modes of transportation at least on day a week.4 out of 7 days of the week AND on average drives a personal automobile less than 80 miles a week. For engines that have not had a tune-up in the last year and for older cars that do not have clean running engines the maximum number of miles per week is 20. Alternative modes of transportation include walking, biking, carpooling, busing and other mass transit.
Those who earn the vivacious VEGI code volunteer for at least 4 hours a week for one of their regional environmental organizations.
Those who earn the visionary VLNTR code volunteer for at least 4 hours a week for one of their regional environmental organizations.
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