A Game Changer for the Chesapeake Bay
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Later this month, congressional staffers will gather to play a game. It’s called the Bay Game, and it’s a new tool developed by professors at the University of Virginia. The Bay Game is growing in popularity and was most recently played by students from seven universities on the east coast. Kelley Libby reports.
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Later this month, congressional staffers will gather to play a game. It’s called the Bay Game, and it’s a new tool developed by professors at the University of Virginia. The Bay Game is growing in popularity and was most recently played by students from seven universities on the east coast. Kelley Libby reports.
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In the 1970s, scientists identified the planet's first marine dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay. Dead zones are areas where the water lacks so much oxygen that nothing can live. Today, the bay's marine life is still threatened by pollution, overharvesting and disease.
But Jeffrey Plank wants to change that. He and his colleagues at the University of Virginia have developed an unusual watershed management tool: the Bay Game.
“We created the Bay Game because we wanted to change the way that we represent the Earth in our university courses. We teach environmental science, we teach commerce, we teach law, policy, architecture, separately. But the Earth is a system of these interconnected components," Plank says.
To play the game, each student, sitting in front of a laptop, represents a potential Bay polluter: There are farmers, watermen, land developers and policy makers.
College freshman...
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