Calculators, Maps, Sims, Databases
Earth Institute at Columbia University
Loads of online resources, including a unique mapping tool and a quiz on the origins of the sustainability movement.
Green Map
Teams from more than 50 nations chart their community's natural, cultural and green living resources, organized around "green maps." Also features map-making tools and tutorials to expand the site's map and resource database.
Starbucks: Planet Green Game
Learn how to "go green" at the local level as you skateboard, bicycle or drive around a virtual neighborhood looking for clues and gaining points for making the right ecological decisions. You can also enter a virtual Starbucks — sorry, no virtual coffee...
BBC's Climate Challenge
Feeling wonky? This game allows you to try your hand at politics, all the way from the international and national levels of big-time policy to the personal politics of your own home. Sometimes complex, but great graphics and facts from a trusted global news source.
Global Warming Interactive
This simulator created by the National Science Foundation is possibly the most complex and far-reaching "game" about climate change, aimed at education about CO2 emissions and focusing on the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions.
Activism, the Public Policy Game
Learn what it's really like to shape the future of your state or the nation... Activism is a fairly sophisticated game where you can control everything from the quality and well-being of teachers to the military. Sponsored by the Democratic Party during the run-up to the 2004 elections.
Oil God
This simulator created by the National Science Foundation is possibly the most complex and far-reaching "game" about climate change, aimed at education about CO2 emissions and focusing on the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions.
CO2 Climate Challenge
Try to change the amount of carbon dioxide "pouring" into our atmosphere with this fun and unique tool created by the Sustainability Institute and the Society for Organizational Learning, using research from a leading climatologist.
Be Green Now
Calculate your individual carbon footprint, get "eco-action" tip sheets and buy carbon offsets. You can also purchase carbon offsets as gifts for others.
Skin Deep Cosmetics Database
Easy-to-navigate menus with reviews of nearly one-quarter of currently available cosmetics, with ratings given for the relative safety of each and a list of dangerous components. A project of the Environmental Working Group.