Low carbon: What’s working for you?

Educational games

We look on games as just fun pastimes, but increasingly games are used for serious education and training. We were reminded at the special interest group on Sunday that Monopoly was devised by a Quaker. The Minute 36 group have devised two games to help us find what actions we might take personally or locally to reduce our carbon footprint.

For one game, you download the board and then the players explore the consequences of their lifestyle carbon choices by trading carbon credits. In the second game, we chose and then ranked a set of carbon reducing actions that we could each take personally. When we were given the carbon reduction figures for the actions, the results were surprisingly high and surprisingly low and led to amazing comparisons.

Contrasting this gathering with the other Canterbury Commitment special interest group on Saturday illustrates the range of work that we have asked the Minute 36 group to undertake: from games and personal actions to working with others on an international scale. It’s all important, but perhaps we need to focus our abilities to be most effective. We need to care for those entrusted with this work and ensure that we do not take them out of their effectiveness zone.

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