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Eco-games? Yep, yep. Plenty Magazine has an interesting piece up taking a look at the green games phenomena. Games like Adventure Ecology teach kiddos about the environment's complex interdependencies in a way that linear media, like books, cannot. Benjamin Stokes, cofounder of Games for Change, a nonprofit group that supports serious game devs, sees striking similarities between games and nature—pointing that that both are interactive systems.

For the environmental movement, it makes perfect sense to use a video game as an educational tool... Video games are a mainstream form of media—they're not just for teenage boys in basements anymore,

Yeah, totally. That 50 inch plus plasma TV looks way better in the living room. Brian Ashcraft

Green Games [Plenty Magazine, Thanks Zippy!]