Planit-sustainablility is a learning-simulation (computer based resource management game), designed and developed by pixelfountain, which considers the ‘real’ issues involved in developing a sustainable community.

Latest News

  Al Gore comes to Sheffield for "Sheffield is my Planet" week. pixelfountain are running three Planit-sustainability workshops as part of Al Gore's visit to the UK.  
Planit is seen as a way of “Securing the Regions’ Futures” (A report from Dti, ODPM and Defra - Page 27 & 41 or search for Planit).  
Academy for Sustainable Communities highlights Planit-NW (Page 19, 20 & 38 or search for Pixel).  
ODPM see Planit-NW as a suitable addition to the Local Area Agreement Toolkit (Page 13 or search for Pixel).  
East Riding chooses Planit has part of its annual Manager’s Conference.  
Unilever uses Planit as a way of bringing its teams together.  
  A new version of planit-sustainability is being used in South Yorkshire    
Overview
The website for Planit-NW project funded by NWDA, NWRA and G0-NW can be found here.
Originally developed with assistance from North West Regional Assembly and Government Office for the North West, Planit-sustainability is an innovative approach to learning.

pixelfountain built on years of experience of developing standalone learning games to create our first workshop delivered learning-simulation.

The future is not somewhere we are going but somewhere we are creating. If we are to build sustainable communities it needs all organisations to work together.

Planit-sustainability Community
The product goes from strength to strength. In part because of the collaborative nature of the exercise, but also because Planit-sustainability models real issues involved in developing a more sustainable communities. It is based upon targets and objectives found in Regional Sustainable Development Frameworks.

Derek Boden, Leader of the North West Regional Assembly (NWRA), said:
"This is an excellent project which achieves something genuinely useful. It helps show how local communities can realise their potential and improve their quality of life while protecting and enhancing their assets. I would encourage all North West local strategic partnerships to help maintain their high quality services by setting up a Planit-nw workshop for their members."

 
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