In the last few days, we have seen Climate Week come and go,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg tout painting city roofs white and
California propose to cut the electricity consumption of your
plasma TV by a third. Energy efficiency is on everyone's mind,
including ours. That's why we have turned a spotlight on New
York City's electricity future with Switch -- the final game in
our series funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
A matching game similar to Concentration or Memory, Switch lets
you solve New York City's energy crisis. Between 2005 and 2030,
the city will have to come up with about 22 million additional
megawatt hours annually to meet our growing electricity demand,
according to the Bloomberg administration's sustainability plan,
PlaNYC 2030. In Switch, we ask you how the city should do it.
Turn out the lights? Build an offshore wind farm? What about
nuclear power? Switch gives you scores of options. Play again
and again and see what conservation policies or generation
proposals can close our e