Global warming champions are popping up in unlikely places these days.  Microsoft is hosting a contest in which video game designers can win cash prizes or an internship with the company for designing a game with a global warming theme.  The contest is the first in a series that looks promising:

We're teaming up with Games for Change, an organization that provides support to individuals and organizations using digital games for social change.  Xbox Global Marketing VP Jeff Bell is in New York to speak at the conference, and to announce a new "socially minded" global gaming competition, called the “Xbox 360 Games for Change Challenge.”  We hope it will help drive awareness for games based on social themes.

  Perhaps now we'll stop hearing about how terrible video games are for children, but I'm not holding my breath.