Juliette Rooney-Varga is Director of the Climate Change Initiative and Associate Professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. She leads the NASA-funded Climate Education in an Age of Media Project, and works closely with Climate Interactive to design role-playing games that simulate the long-term outcome of today’s energy choices and policies. Rooney-Varga received her BA from Colby College, her MS from Cornell University and her PhD from the University of New Hampshire.
Rooney-Varga explains that introducing simulation-based role-playing games to students is an effective and fun way to teach how decisions and actions taken today will impact climate change in the future. (Talk recorded in July 2014)
Duration: 27:19
