Biotrash: The Video Game, App and Interactive Website

A video game, app and interactive website will creatively communicate the urgency of sustainability issues and help the next generation dream of a different, biologically healthy world.

Our current reality is filled with biological trash. Invasive species shatter our native ecologies, brownfields leach into our water systems, and junk food attacks our basic physiology. Modern living relies on pesticides, preservatives and impermeable surfaces, and our carbon footprints continue to expand with our body masses. With a rapidly changing climate and intensified health problems, our physical, political and economic landscapes are in desperate need of rehabilitation. The reintroduction of designed biological interventions may be the only way to increase the health of our species and our greater global ecosystem.

This is not a natural disaster we face, but rather a cultural disaster. The physical landscape cannot fully change without society-wide behavioral change. Creative education could be the catalyst to make sustainability the cultural norm.

A sustainability video game and iPhone App teaches middle and high school kids about sustainability issues in a way that relates to the fast-paced digital generation. An interactive website links teens to real-life opportunities to create change in their neighborhood. Rainier Valley, WA the most diverse zipcode in the United States, is used as a test site for this geography and site specific gaming device. By linking the video game and app to GoogleEarth, local game courses can be generated worldwide, creating familiar and tangible landscapes for children to dream of a different, biologically healthy reality. Using the anti-smoking marketing campaigns as a precedent, this video game is designed to inform the next generation and help to change the cultural disaster that we are all suffering.