Green Boardgames

When playing a board game do you ever think about how much material is wasted to make that game? Or how all that material is wasted once you throw it away? If you do then that thought can be down sized because there are new games out that use recycled products. I found this article http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/monopoly-with-carbon-credits-7-green-board-games-for-the-new-generation.php?campaign=th_rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29&utm_content=Google+Reader that talks about these games. These are were made to encourage help to use teamwork, cooperation, and sustainability in an eco-friendly based board game.  Through this article there are seven games mentioned.

1.Earthopoly ($30.00) The purpose of this game is to fine-tune your green cred. This is odne by buying carbon credits that you use buy clean air. While playing this game you learn about nature and climate regions. The great thing about this game is that when your ready to throw this game out and get a new one everything in this game can be recycled.  I decided to look up more information on Earthopoly and found this website http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37005/earthopoly and it gives more details about the game. The game is for 2-6 player, and the playing time is 120 minutes. This game was published in 2008 by Late for the Sky Production Company.
2.Head1Liners ($38.00) For this game a person is to make up a headline that goes with a photo and the score they get from the other players tells them how much to advance. The cards are recycled paper and soy-based inks, tokens are recycled glass and wood, and the score-keeping pencils are biodegradable and non-toxic.
3.The Wild Seed Game ($22.00) The goal of this game is to get kids to connection Earth, food, and health. The game is gor 4-9 year olds. Also they can play the game for different ways. Players choose cards saying whether their crops die or grown while teaching the player about the food chain, growing process, nutrients, and sunlight.

4.Bioviva ($24.00) The production of this game produces 63 percent fewer greenhouse gases, uses half as much water and energy, and gives off only about 20 percent of the toxic compounds of the other games. This game is for six players over the age of 8. Each player travels around the world to gain Eco Points by answering environmental questions. There are more than 800 questions.
5.Gaia's Garden ($44.00) This game is to teach kids to cooperate. The players have a garden and have to keep it free from insects and pests. The game board is made with watercolor paint on recycled paper. The board is then mounted with natural flour-and-water gule to recycled boards.                                 
6.Liebrary,Call It! and Famous Last Lines ($23.00, $30.00 and $15.00) These games are based on social interaction. In Liebrary players try to invent the most convincing first line of a book. For Famous Last Lines the player make final bon mots from well-loved films, and in Call It palyers have to be the first to yell out winning entried in random categories.
7. Used and Vintage Board Games-For classic games try to use used game boards that have all the pieces, they are better for the environment than the new ones. Also game companies won't waste as much product to make new game boards of classic games.

I think that these games are a great idea. Some of them don't seem fun to me but to a little kid I'm sure they will be entertaining. The nice thing about these games are that the all have a purpose to help the kids in life and I think that is important for a game to have.

In class we talked about evolution and these new game boards about the environment is an evolution. People took the idea of a game and adapted them so that they could become new games that help a child to develop.



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