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That's why we want to create a secret HQ for people who are making games that are making us: - happier - smarter - stronger - healthier - more collaborative - more creative - better connected to our friends and family - and better at WHATEVER we love to do when we're not playing games

Talkie, a game designer based in Los Angeles, is making a new social game, akin to Zynga's "FarmVille" or "CityVille," that they hope will encourage their players to get out of their chairs and have a positive impact on their environments.

The game is a pretext for inspiring children to create,develop and practice with the tools and processes of problem-solving, and creative and critical thinking. It is hoped that the children may ultimately be able to use these experiences to help reduce suffering and increase compassion in the world.

Openworld wants to create an online game to help Resilient Places emerge.

EVOKE is an online game designed to teach collaboration, creativity, knowledge networking, entrepreneurship, courage, resourcefulness, sustainability, and vision.

Online game with real-world sustainability outcomes

The GENI Initiative focuses on linking renewable energy resources around the world using international electricity transmission. Decades ago, visionary engineer Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller developed the World Game simulation, posing the question: How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone? Research shows that the premier global strategy is the interconnection of electric power networks between regions and continents into a global energy grid, with an emphasis on tapping abundant renewable energy resources - a world wide web of electricity.

This will be a profoundly social economy, built on unprecedented capabilities to self-organize people and resources in the crowd. Social media will connect ideas, people, and institutions across porous boundaries that blur the inside/outside distinctions of yesterday 's companies and government agencies. Network connections will be the distribution channels across market sectors and radical transparency will be the new norm.