Anytown USA
Transform your town, save the planet!
Can you transform a polluted town into a thriving, green community? In this fast-paced environmental game, you’ll get a chance to create your own sustainable town.
In Anytown USA, you’ll race against time to solve climate challenges like reducing global warming, by greening up your home, your town, and ultimately helping to cool the earth.
In a single game, you will learn how we can replace dirty power plants, gas-guzzling cars and food waste with a thriving green community featuring solar farms, electric cars, and composting!
Watch Anytown USA in action in these short videos from recent events: EcoEvolution and Fairfax Festival.
About Anytown USA
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Objective: Replace harmful “problem” tiles (red) with sustainable “solution” tiles (green).
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Category Match: Find the right solution for each problem, in categories like energy, food, transportation or land use.
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Fast-paced fun: The clock is ticking—solve as many problems as you can before time runs out!
How to play
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Green up your home: Replace red tiles (e.g., gas stoves) with green tiles (e.g., induction cooktops).
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Green up your town: Fix issues like factory farms with regenerative agriculture.
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Cool the earth: The more green tiles you place, the more you help lower global temperatures on our Earth thermometer.
Learn more about Anytown USA.
Why play?
Anytown USA gives you a fun, hands-on way to learn about sustainable solutions and make a positive impact in your community.
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Learn: Discover real-world climate solutions while having fun.
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Act: Every problem you solve lowers the earth’s temperature.
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Inspire: Visualize a better world by greening your home and town.
Quick facts
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Game time: 2-5 minutes.
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Players: 1-6.
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Ages: 3+
Join our next events
To participate in this activity, visit our Green Change Exhibit at one of our next events, where we present fun activities and information to help you live sustainably.
Learn more in our Activities page.
Credits
Activity page edited by Fabrice Florin and Devin Ruy.
Activity created by Green Change director Fabrice Florin.
Photos by Gil Latimer and Fabrice Florin.
Videos by Fabrice Florin
More Photos
Here are more photos of this activity, for your viewing pleasure:
