Arts/Music
Only shop for environmentally-safe products, including disposal (ex. paints, canvas, musical instruments)
What is "Old Game"?
Why? This solution focuses on buying more items.
Start a letter-writing campaign to persuade your local legislators to support tough-on-pollution laws
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? It focuses on using persuasive skills to change the game entirely with new laws
Post on social media to educate friends and family about the health risks associated with pollution (cancer, asthma, heart disease, etc.)
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? This solution is all about education, teaching people to make informed decisions about their own health.
Develop more efficient devices (cars, phones, refrigerators, etc.)
What is "Old Game"?
Why? To benefit from this solution, we need to buy more devices (and dispose of older models).
Create art with a message, designed to influence and promote environmental behaviors
(ex. Painting storm-drains to remind people they lead to the ocean)
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? It doesn't focus on buying items, but instead on using art to change behavior.
Support politicians and representatives from both sides of the aisle who advocate a shift in status quo
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? This solution empowers citizens to improve their government and focus on people-driven solutions
Start an effort in your school or workplace to encourage walking/biking instead of driving
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? It doesn't focus on buying anything new (ex. an electric car), but rather practicing healthier activity (for you and the climate)
Utilize genetic engineering to improve crops, so they need less fertilizer and pesticides.
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? While it does require creating more seeds, it cuts down on the resources needed for agriculture
Participate in equipment sharing/thrifting network for used instruments, art supplies, etc.
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? It focuses on reducing consumption of new items by re-using existing equipment.
Use language to influence public opinion, such as literature or poetry
(ex. The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman; Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson)
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? Solutions like this aim to change behavior instead of buying new things.
Shift to a plant-based diet, so more crops can go to feeding people instead of livestock.
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? This solution helps folks become healthier by improving their diet, but also cuts back on wasted resources like water and soil
Use geometry and calculus to identify and establish protected parks and nature reserves
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? While this solution isn't "new", it changes the game by ignoring potential profit and focusing on protection instead
Host a musician/artist charity event or auction to raise money to fight hunger
What is "Old Game"?
Why? It's a noble solution, but it relies on more spending (rather than changing the policies that lead to hunger in the first place)
Start a social media campaign to influence public opinion in favor of a particular environmental issue
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? Depending on the context, this type of solution can have an effect on education people about a problem
Make decisions when buying products for the home based on their impact on sustainability and worker conditions.
(Ex. fair trade products, shade-grown coffee, cutting out palm oil, etc.)
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? These solutions are based on "stuff", but they focus on making sure the stuff we do need to buy (food, clothes, etc.) is produced in the best possible way.
Encourage zoos and captive breeding programs to preserve species before they go extinct
What is "Old Game"?
Why? This solution might save a few endangered individuals, but doesn't do anything to address the things threatening them to begin with (habitat loss, pollution, hunting, etc.)
Create an artistic campaign or compose a musical piece to publicize an environmental concern, like deforestation or child hunger
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? This solution focuses on changing people's behavior, rather than encouraging the purchase of new "stuff"
Organize with members of your local community to take action around an environmental topic (for instance, the local Magothy and Severn River Associations)
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? This solution is all about *doing*. It focuses on bettering our community through direct action, and working with our neighbors, instead of buying our way out of our problems.
Start a campaign to preserve and protect nature spaces as locations for the public to practice mental and physical well-being
What is "Game-Changing"?
Why? Viewing nature as necessary for physical and mental health is a new concept. It also takes out the profit-driven motive, and focuses on what's best for the individual (not the wallet)
Engineer cities adapted to climate change and design new technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
What is "Old Game"?
Why? These solutions are really cool (and probably necessary), but they only focus on fixing the symptoms of our problems, rather than what caused them in the first place (too much greenhouse gases).