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Global Warming Can Be Fun https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint Saving the planet one game at a time. Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:27:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en State Legislature DayToday I'm going to meet with a bunch of Massachusetts state legislators to talk about the Boston-area game industry. I hope to convince them that the game industry is an important one for the state, and that attempting to pass content-control legislation (limiting sales of video games to minors) would ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/10/16/state-legislature-day/ My 15 minutes…all in one weekIt's been a good week for me in the press. The weekend before last included the OLPC game jam, as well as my son's high school graduation and the start of the Games For Change festival in New York.There was an article in Mass High Tech on serious games in ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/06/18/my-15-minutesall-in-one-week/ G4C — Alan GershenfeldAudience about 1/3 gamers, 1/3 has memorized a long poemGood newsFirst time we've ever had multiple generations playing games at the same timeMost game machines are connectedWith game design you can seamlessly connect to activism -- civil disobedience, MeetupDemocratization of the tools"Double bottom line companies" -- financial and social returnBad ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/06/11/g4c-alan-gershenfeld/ Games For Change festival, NYCI'm sitting here in New York City waiting for the start of the Games For Change festival. Looks like there are going to be a couple of hundred people here to talk about serious games for social change. I was up until far too late putting some additional polish on ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/06/11/games-for-change-festival-nyc/ Other things (besides the planet) are heating upI've been insanely busy lately. Still making some money consulting, but also doing a ton of work on the game.I don't think I've even blogged about it...but I rebooted the project a few months back. The game as planned was going to be a downloaded game that players would buy, ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/06/03/other-things-besides-the-planet-are-heating-up/ …and they say we can’t afford mitigationAccording to The Boston Globe, $456 Billion that has so far been spent on the war in Iraq. With just one-sixth of the US money targeted for the Iraq war, you could convert all cars in America to run on ethanol.TheBudgetGraph.com estimates that converting the 136,568,083 registered cars in the ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/05/06/and-they-say-we-cant-afford-mitigation/ Words worth rememberingMy son was researching a speech by President Eisenhower, and because of problems with his computer asked me to print it for him. I was just reading it and found this. It's not exactly about global warming, but it's so appropriate to modern times that I have to post it ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/05/03/words-worth-remembering/ Hello, global warming skeptics?It's funny how almost every time I get an email from someone who's calling me "Chicken Little", or trying to convince me that global warming is just natural processes, they almost always send me a link to Myron Ebell. Vanity Fair this month has an article by Michael Schnayerson that ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/04/17/hello-global-warming-skeptics/ I’m not this far goneColin McEnroe is giving up. He's not even Waiting for Godot, he's waiting for God. At least today, on an icky, cold, rainy day.As he points out, when Kurt Vonnegut was interviewed on The Daily Show, he said that "our planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/04/15/im-not-this-far-gone/ IPCC says it’s here, it’s clear, get used to itSo maybe global warming isn't gonna be so fun after all. The latest IPCC report is out, and it ain't pretty. Global warming is already affecting a lot of things. We're already too late to prevent some of the changes. We can ameliorate the problem with action on the generation ... https://cognitoy.com/meltingpoint/blog/2007/04/07/ipcc-says-its-here-its-clear-get-used-to-it/