Your town name: __________________
It’s 2050 and the U.S. government is trying a new program to relocate
climate refugees. Your team has been tasked with designing a new town in
Southern Indiana (temperate broadleaf forest) for a village of families
that lost their coastal community to sea level rise. (Oh no climate change
.)To design this community, you must clear forest to make room for
development.
The village includes 25 families, with a combined 65 children, and 25 single
adults. Each family and each young adult owns 1 car. 10 families own 2 cars.
The families have asked to have a space for their cars next to their house.
The families are used to lakefront properties and prefer not to live in
apartments. The village also LOVES water (it reminds them of home) and
would like a water feature in town.
1. Fill the 10x10 grid with the following colors:
a. Forest/trees – Dark green
b. Houses – 1 brown space each
c. Apartment (10 2-bedroom units) – 3 black spaces each
d. Parking space – grey (4 cars per square)
e. Businesses – Orange.
i. For a complete variety of available goods and services, you will need 15
orange spaces
ii. Make sure businesses have space to park if necessary!
f. Pond/Lake (you decide) – blue spaces
g. School (capacity 25 kids per square) – yellow
h. Park/recreation space –light green
i. Hospital – 1 white space
j. Emergency services – 1 red space
It’s 2050 and the Swedish government is trying a new program to relocate
climate refugees. Your team has been tasked with designing a new town in a
boreal forest in Sweden for a village of families that lost their coastal
community to sea level rise. (Oh no climate change .) To design this
community, you must clear forest to make room for development.
The village includes 25 families, with a combined 65 children, and 25 single
adults. Each family and each young adult owns 1 car. 10 families own 2 cars.
The families have asked to have a space for their cars next to their house.
The families are used to lakefront properties and prefer not to live in
apartments. The village also LOVES water (it reminds them of home) and
would like a water feature in town.
1. Fill the 10x10 grid with the following colors:
a. Forest/trees – Dark green
b. Houses – 1 brown space each
c. Apartment (10 2-bedroom units) – 3 black spaces each
d. Parking space – grey (4 cars per square)
e. Businesses – Orange.
i. For a complete variety of available goods and services, you will need 15
orange spaces
ii. Make sure businesses have space to park if necessary!
f. Pond/Lake (you decide) – blue spaces
g. School (capacity 25 kids per square) – yellow
h. Park/recreation space –light green
i. Hospital – 1 white space
j. Emergency services – 1 red space
It’s 2050 and the Brazilian government is trying a new program to relocate
climate refugees. Your team has been tasked with designing a new town
further inland in the Amazon Rainforest for a village of families that lost
their coastal community to sea level rise. (Oh no climate change .)To
design this community, you must clear forest to make room for development.
The village includes 25 families, with a combined 65 children, and 25 single
adults. Each family and each young adult owns 1 car. 10 families own 2 cars.
The families have asked to have a space for their cars next to their house.
The families are used to lakefront properties and prefer not to live in
apartments. The village also LOVES water (it reminds them of home) and
would like a water feature in town.
1. Fill the 10x10 grid with the following colors:
a. Forest/trees – Dark green
b. Houses – 1 brown space each
c. Apartment (10 2-bedroom units) – 3 black spaces each
d. Parking space – grey (4 cars per square)
e. Businesses – Orange.
i. For a complete variety of available goods and services, you will need 15
orange spaces
ii. Make sure businesses have space to park if necessary!
f. Pond/Lake (you decide) – blue spaces
g. School (capacity 25 kids per square) – yellow
h. Park/recreation space –light green
i. Hospital – 1 white space
j. Emergency services – 1 red space
It’s 2050 and the Canadian government is trying a new program to relocate
climate refugees. Your team has been tasked with designing a new town
further inland in temperate coniferous forest for a village of families that
lost their coastal community to sea level rise. (Oh no climate change .)To
design this community, you must clear forest to make room for development.
The village includes 25 families, with a combined 65 children, and 25 single
adults. Each family and each young adult owns 1 car. 10 families own 2 cars.
The families have asked to have a space for their cars next to their house.
The families are used to lakefront properties and prefer not to live in
apartments. The village also LOVES water (it reminds them of home) and
would like a water feature in town.
1. Fill the 10x10 grid with the following colors:
a. Forest/trees – Dark green
b. Houses – 1 brown space each
c. Apartment (10 2-bedroom units) – 3 black spaces each
d. Parking space – grey (4 cars per square)
e. Businesses – Orange.
i. For a complete variety of available goods and services, you will need 15
orange spaces
ii. Make sure businesses have space to park if necessary!
f. Pond/Lake (you decide) – blue spaces
g. School (capacity 25 kids per square) – yellow
h. Park/recreation space –light green
i. Hospital – 1 white space
j. Emergency services – 1 red space
Group members:
1. How did your forest/tree spaces shape out? Are they cohesive,
uniformly distributed, or fragmented?
a. How might this affect carbon sequestration/pools?
b. How might this affect forest resilience? What might your town/forest
be susceptible to?
c. How might this affect biomass throughout your town? (Think edge
vs interior of forest)
2. What was the biggest challenge in developing the land to meet
demand? What infrastructure is farthest from your forest?
3. If you could redesign your town however you wanted, even with
options not included in this activity, what would you do?
