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Energetic We turned the future of New York City into a board game Educators’ Guide Energetic teachers and students About Energetic Advisors & Endorsements Energetic order form press New York Times NY1 Grist METROPOLIS Yale Climate Connections topics Expert Interviews New York City Policy Climate impacts Education events newsletter team/contact all posts donate City Atlas about Energetic We turned the future of New York City into a board game Educators’ Guide Energetic teachers and students About Energetic Advisors & Endorsements Energetic order form press New York Times NY1 Grist METROPOLIS Yale Climate Connections topics Expert Interviews New York City Policy Climate impacts Education events newsletter team/contact all posts donate Read Post Drew Pendergrass April 13, 2024 April 19, 2024 38 minute read by Eli Gitter-Dentz It’s either going to be run roughshod over the climate, or change our society.” Read Post Gaya Herrington March 20, 2024 March 21, 2024 36 minute read by Eli Gitter-Dentz What humanity does in the next few years will determine our wellbeing levels for the rest of the century, which is quite incredible” Read Post Alice Hu September 4, 2023 April 14, 2024 38 minute read by Eli Gitter-Dentz There’s a huge cognitive dissonance, right? People will be thinking about, well how can I make enough money so I can retire with the amount of wealth that I want? While also knowing logically that, okay, yeah, but like, by the time I’m at retirement age, what’s the world even gonna look like? You know, what am I even saving for?” Read Post Teacher feedback May 29, 2023 March 27, 2024 1 minute read by Richard Reiss Andrew Wells (NEST+m high school on the lower east side) Aida Rosenbaum (Bronx Latin) Adam Zaid (Queens School of Inquiry) Matt Sarker (Bronx Science) Letters of support… Read Post Julien Dossier March 12, 2023 April 14, 2024 25 minute read by Ajani Stella, Daniel Shneider, Nicholas Wu What happens if, say the president of France is elected and has a mandate to cut carbon emissions by twenty percent in five years, and if emissions are cut by nineteen percent? Has the person failed, or not? Given the amount of the challenge, 19 out of 20 could be seen, Wow, that’s good enough, that works! But what about 18? What about 17?” Read Post Rebecca Willis March 11, 2023 April 14, 2024 37 minute read by Nicholas Wu and Ajani Stella When politics becomes really dysfunctional, the temptation is to just be quite a cynical realist and say, That’s just how the world is now. But the more I think about it, the more I think that when you’re confronted with these problems, you actually need to double down on the idealism.” Read Post Energetic links February 1, 2023 September 16, 2023 1 minute read by Richard Reiss Photo: Yale students play eight simultaneous games of Energetic in a tournament, November 15, 2019 I kept thinking, ‘Oh, they thought of that? Wow, they… Read Post Stuart Capstick June 25, 2022 April 14, 2024 34 minute read by Daniel Shneider and Ajani Stella The focus on a number is less important than the real bottom line,trying to shape our societies, our economies, our lives in ways that enable as many of us to have a good life as possible, without wrecking the world.” Read Post Energetic teachers and students May 23, 2022 August 31, 2023 5 minute read by Richard Reiss Accurate information about energy is important. To prevent climate change from getting worse, we have to build new infrastructure quickly and for that to happen,… Read Post Energetic: the board game May 23, 2022 March 29, 2024 2 minute read by Richard Reiss We designed a board game about the future of New York City. This gives everyone the chance to see the scope of change and cooperation… Read Post Ro Randall June 14, 2021 May 24, 2022 37 minute read by Gabriel Gitter-Dentz By the time you folk have finished university, and are maybe three or four years into your first job, that 10 years that has been spoken about is gone. So there needs to be a space where people like yourselves can feel safe enough to talk about what your fears and hopes are for the future.” Read Post David Bookbinder May 2, 2021 May 24, 2022 26 minute read by Adam Rudt It’s important that high school students and even younger than high school students understand what exactly is happening to the planet they’re living on.” Read Post Kim Nicholas February 23, 2021 May 24, 2022 22 minute read by Kevin Zhou If I go chronologically, it actually starts with a personal story. So in 2012, I had a beer with my friend Charlie…” Read Post Alice Larkin February 17, 2021 May 24, 2022 23 minute read by Gabriel Gitter-Dentz One of my main areas that I’ve focused on for years is just the kind of timeframe to change to make the changes and how that needs to be really rapid. You can’t just rely on huge infrastructure projects because they take ages.” Read Post Jeff Berardelli December 21, 2020 May 24, 2022 12 minute read by Adam Rudt JEFF BERARDELLI: So when you take a long term drought due to climate change–mostly due to climate change, not all of it–and then you take… Read Post Students in South Carolina race to build a zero carbon NYC December 3, 2020 June 12, 2021 4 minute read by Jennifer Bradham Dr. Jennifer Bradham teaches climate change and energy in South Carolina. Read Post Radley Horton October 14, 2020 May 24, 2022 17 minute read by Kevin Zhou  RADLEY HORTON: If we look at other things that kill far more people like having heart disease, or, you know, having really bad asthma,… Read Post Aarne Granlund October 13, 2020 May 24, 2022 16 minute read by Gabriel Gitter-Dentz We calculated that 60 to 70% of the Finnish emissions profile is connected to households. How they live, how they heat their home, for example. With that kind of profile, we get about 10 tonnes per person on the average in Finland. That should drop to 2.5 tonnes within 10 years.” Load More Copyright © 2024 — Made with ♥ and intention by Codestag / about Energetic / We turned the future of New York City into a board game / Educators’ Guide / Energetic teachers and students / About Energetic / Advisors & Endorsements / Energetic order form / press / New York Times / NY1 / Grist / METROPOLIS / Yale Climate Connections / topics / Expert Interviews / New York City / Policy / Climate impacts / Education / events / newsletter / team/contact / all posts /...