Floe, a virtual polar bear on National Grid’s Web site, can help National Grid customers analyze and measure the environmental effects of their routine daily activities, including eating, drinking, driving and making home heating energy choices. Floe can be found at the website, nationalgrid.com/floe. Visitors can interact with Floe or befriend another virtual polar bear and learn how positive environmental acts will help protect the environment.

Also, Venture Arctic, in which

players create and control ecosystems of Arctic animals. You can blow the scent of a beached bowhead whale to a hungry wolverine, melt snow to feed epic herds of caribou, or freeze over the ocean to protect schools of arctic cod from ravenous puffins and seals.

The game is based on the seasonal rhythms of the Arctic – in the summer animals fatten up on grasses, in the fall the oceans are choked with plankton, and in the winter animals must struggle to survive.

@ GreenMuze