On Earth Day everyone is encouraged to work towards helping the environment. People can spend the day recycling, carpooling, or even switching out old light bulbs for environmentally friendly ones, among other things. The main focus of the day is to “go green” in hopes that you’ll stay green all year.

While the Earth Day events may seem like enough for some people, one group of gamers thinks they can do more. Gamers Go Green, a high school gaming team from Whitney M Young High School in Chicago, is partnering with Evil Controllers to host a Game Hour on April 23rd, the day after Earth Day. During this Game Hour, gamers are encouraged to shut off everything in their house and spend one hour with their friends and family playing a game.

I will be spending my hour playing a candlelit game of Monopoly with my wife. I’m hoping the lack of lighting will make cheating easier, because I’m tired of losing to her. She gloats in a Yoda voice every time she wins anything, and it drives me crazy.

Will you participate? What will you spend your hour doing?

More information can be found at the event’s FaceBook page.