GAP Inc. recently published their environmental responsibiltiy report. Since this is a store that many of us shop at, I think it’s important to hold them - and ourselves - accountable for doing business profitably while caring for the environment. As they say in the video, they’re not perfect, but the fact that they reach out to communicate what they are accomplishing to achieve environmental sustainability is important to me.

I hope the Walmart’s of the world begin similar efforts since they are among the biggest companies in the world.

I recently used this with my Year 10 Study of Society and the Environment class. We were studying a unit on Sustainability and World Management Issues. I flipped my class on its head; I let my students play the game for two lessons then we went through the textbook - they had all the answers to each chapter fully ingrained in their thinking before they even read the textbook.

And there would be a number of teachers who thought that games have no educational worth…we completed in a week what may have taken three without electrocity