The Sims 3 goes greener with the new 'all-green' electric vehicle, windmill and solar panels pack, it'll have all those things and a few others.

So when is this coming out?

I'm not entirely sure but sometime this month, as the expiry date is 'April 1, 2012'.

Looking forward to this new green pack ^.^
But could Renault please design a much better looking zero emissions vehicle?! At least EA has improved the look, but not by much though ><

That car reminds me of the dandelion-powered one they had on the second episode of Pushing Daisies.

Wonderful... now if only a SINGLE download WORKED in game, that would be great too.

How about plugging the leaks in the bottom before adding more passengers onto the boat, EA?

If only there was conclusive proof on Climate Change instead of just projections.

PARTICLES VIBRATE, CREATING HEAT, sun stays in cuz of CO² hovering above the atmosphere, just right underneath the O-Zone layer, which is currently being OMNOMNOM'd away by the residing CO². Therefore, allowing more heat to come in, melt away the ice as the CO² collects up at the northern pole.

Well all of that's natural to the Earth. o-o Annddd, Natural Earth has no floating ice on it, Pangea didn't, which means we're in an ice age, which means the Earth is naturally getting warmer. (See "A Book of General Ignorance" for more).

BUT WE MAKE CO² IN FACTORIES, DUMMYHEAD.

And in our lungs. o-o What's more, the amount of CO² in the atmosphere fluctuates widly naturally. Did you know, this precise same thing happened to the dinosaurs, but they didn't have factories... I don't think. xD

I just got a great mental image of a bunch of Triceratops driving cars down a dirt road while some T. Rexes build a wooden sky scraper using gigantic cranes.

Anyway, on topic. I love the way that car looks, but I'm gonna save it for my mad scientist/alien/time traveling sims. It's a bit too weird for every day sim life, IMO.

But the majority of CO² is made by cars, jets, motorbikes, etc. Not just the lungs, the amount in all humans' lungs is enough to feed a tree, since it has so many leaves.

Don't forget that a third of greenhouse gases produced is methane coming out of livestock, which continues to grow and grow each year, as well as the damage those nasty CFC's did to the ozone layer two decades or so again. Granted, the ozone layer is replenishing itself but still, it's under threat.

This thread has turned into a 'CLIMATE CHANGE' thread.
I Am pretty sure that global warming IS happening... But thats just me.. Still even if you don't believe in it, its good to recycle and save energy :)
We take too much for granted.

Global warming is happening. There is no doubt about that. Whether or not you'd call it a crisis is a different story. But Chaz is right. We take way to many things for granted especially those of us who live in wealthy and well off nations. We can't just keep using and using and using the earth and giving nothing back. Eventually it will bite us in the ass.

Now enough rambling about climate change. If you want to discuss it go do it in Serious Discussions and let's keep this thread on topic with the new "going green" pack in the sims 3.
Please and thank you

I can't wait for this! I love that it cuts down our bills :D Those cars are so funky cool.

Offtopic:

Delightful wrote:

If only there was conclusive proof on Climate Change instead of just projections.

do we listen to thousands of scientists world wide that all agree the planet is warming up(the earth goes through warm and cold cycles, the debate lies in if we're jump starting it through pollution WAY ahead of time and even those thousands of scientists agree our pollution is very damaging), or do we believe politicians and a few dozen or so "experts" that are in bed with big oil/coal/insert_another_polluter_here that brings in billions of dollars. These companies don't want competition from clean alternative energy, they want to keep sucking the well until it's dry.

it's no different than the tobacco companies back in the day spending millions of dollars to make people believe cigarettes are healthy, and they got away with it for years and years even with the scientists and researchers saying how damaging it is to your lungs.

and now with foods, we're learning more and more about the effects of massive amounts of corn in our diet and how the industry is spending millions to make sure we all think it's OK to suck down a ton of corn syrup, all at the same time facing near epidemic levels of obesity. (1 in 3 kids born today will have diabetes if our society's diet stays the course). They run those stupid commercials where they ask "What's so bad about corn syrup?" and the person is like "Uh drr i dunno", so I guess since you don't know, it's OK for you!

so, I'll trust the scientists, not the ones that want to keep polluting or harming our species for their billion dollar profits. I mean, really, regardless of what you believe, didn't we ALL grow up learning not to pollute? Be apart of the generation that builds a clean environment? This debate always comes off as if people just WANT to keep polluting.

also, everyone should watch Food Inc.!

You're not trusting thousands of scientists. You're trusting a handful of them, in the top of the IPCC, who decide what information gets published, and which criteria and sources are applicable.

Personally I'll trust millions of years of data and millions of scientists who are NOT voluntarily or involuntarily part of the lying, cheating, manipulative United Nations IPCC, and who are skeptical of or reserved toward the AGW theory.

The IPCC is a political body, not a scientific one, and have even come under criticism from their own colleagues at their own institutions for being manipulative, primitive and one-minded.

EDIT: By the way, and somewhat on topic, electrical vehicles pollute more than gasoline ones. Sad, but true.

is it out yet? if it is where can i get it?