Gaming to Save the World! (w/Katie Patrick)
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Episode 78 of Energy Nerd Show & Tell. This week's guest: Katie Patrick on gamifying the fight against climate change. (Part 2)
Katie Patrick
Environmental Engineer, Designer, Author and Podcaster
Katie Patrick is an Australian-American environmental engineer, designer, and author of How to Save the World: How to Make Changing the World the Greatest Game We've Ever Played. and hosts the podcast, How to Save the World, where she investigates academic research in environmental psychology. She specializes in what she calls “Fitbit for the Planet” design – which means applying data-driven gamification and behavior-change techniques to environmental problems. Katie has worked on environmental gamification projects with NASA JPL, Stanford University, UNEP, Google, the University of California, Magic Leap, and the Institute for the Future.