Large scale national and international efforts are ineffective and insufficient to prevent calamity
What can I personally do to help?
Is there a “sweet spot“ for action between
My individual efforts
And
all of humanity
Around*
100,000 people
seems to be where the action is!
* Research shows that the sweet spot for action lies between 10,000 and 1,000,000 people
Introducing The Long Game
a network
and
an app
to help you find your local sweet spot and connect with others, having fun while helping people and the planet.
Get involved in the community and see what's happening in the fight for better environment
You choose a rescue mission and complete it, earning points that raise your level
Join meta-communities and complete common missions together
The Mesocommunity Atlas
Not just a game
The Atlas reveals the systems shaping each community: its water, climate, ecology, and resilience.
Prototype data: These values demonstrate the Atlas methodology and await validation. Source references are shown with each indicator.
Varmland, Sweden
Karlstad Mesocommunity
At the meeting point of the Klaralven River and Lake Vanern, Karlstad faces spring floods arriving earlier and summers growing longer and drier.
Population
About 95K
Watershed
Klaralven
Primary SDGs
6 and 13
Watershed and local systems
Resilience indicators
Seasonal cycle
How Karlstad's year is changing
Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, Japan
Hongo Mesocommunity
Home to the University of Tokyo, Hongo sits in one of the world's densest urban environments, where concrete adds heat that the city can no longer shed.
Population
About 65K
Watershed
Kanda River
Primary SDGs
11 and 13
Urban heat and local systems
Resilience indicators
Seasonal cycle
How Hongo's year is changing
Rangpur Division, Bangladesh
Gaibandha Char Communities
The riverine islands of Gaibandha face a triple hazard: seasonal flooding, erosion that consumes land overnight, and dry-season drought months later.
Population
About 150K
Watershed
Jamuna
Primary SDGs
1, 6 and 13
Char islands and flood systems
Resilience indicators
Seasonal cycle
How Gaibandha's year is changing
Ararat Marz, Armenia
Masis Mesocommunity
Masis lies in Armenia's agricultural heartland, where the artesian aquifer serving farms, communities, and energy infrastructure has declined by about two-thirds.
Population
About 90K
Watershed
Araks River
Primary SDGs
2, 6 and 13
Aquifer and drought systems
Resilience indicators
Seasonal cycle
How Masis's year is changing
Our team
Mark S. McCaffrey
Founder of ECOS, the UN Climate Change Community; Developer of Powers of 10 Framework
For ten years he developed educational programs on climate change and energy literacy at the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Science Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Climate and energy need to be taught everywhere, not just in one little tiny part of the science curriculum.
Michael Vartanyan
GHG and carbon markets technology expert, Managing Director, Spherical
Michael is delivering IT solutions for climate change since 2001. During his 15-year-long tenure at the UNFCCC secretariat, he developed, managed and operated most of the UNFCCC systems powering greenhouse gas transparency and carbon markets. Michael is a member of the UNFCCC Consultative Group of Experts and the Managing Director of Spherical — a software company specializing in climate solutions.
If you want to attract kids' attention, be a video game or a social network. Better both
Our advisors
Sophya A. Geghamyan
Environmental scientist
For more than ten years she has worked in Sustainable Development, including Environmental Impact Assessment, climate change, and greenhouse-gas calculations. She currently works at Henkel as a Sustainable Materials Manager.
Rusanne "Rusty" Low
Citizen-science leader, environmental researcher
Rusanne "Rusty" Low is a senior scientist who helped shape NASA's GLOBE citizen-science strategy and led the Mosquito Habitat Mapper across five continents. A Fulbright Scholar and UNITAR Global Diplomacy Fellow, she has trained educators and communities worldwide in open science, equity, and environmental stewardship.
Christina Kwauk
Social scientist, education and climate policy analyst
Christina works at the intersection of education for climate action, international development, gender equality, and youth empowerment. She has co-edited books on climate education and girls' education, published research and curricula on climate change, and trained education professionals worldwide on greening education.
Juliette directs the Climate Change Initiative, co-directs the Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy, and is a professor of Environmental Science at UMass Lowell. A biogeochemist and microbial ecologist, she develops interactive climate and energy simulations that support public understanding and science-informed decisions.
