• The SimCenter is an immersive visualization facility that helps to accelerate understanding by your group.
• From a design concept by visionary engineer Buckminster Fuller, our goal is to visualize sustainable futures.

• Immersive visualization surrounds you in the issues, trends and future projections for your firm or organization
• The SimCenter is designed to facilitate collaboration among your stakeholders (e.g. staff, suppliers and clients), working in teams to visualize concepts, problems and opportunities, and then reporting to the group.  With teams working In this manner, everyone learns faster together.

We have many programs for participation:

• Green Scene brings together the leading sustainability organizations,
• GeoDesign is for GIS map and data developers, geospatial analysts, and geo-enabled R & D
• Plan San Diego delves into the critical issues of the region, and asks “How Sustainable are we?”
• Movies That Make a Difference inform us about sustainable solutions.

We opened the SimCenter in our current location in July 2011.  The SimCenter went through several phases, with a Prototype event in 2008 and a Demonstration month in September 2009 at the New School of Architecture and Design.

Sustainability has been defined as meeting the needs of today’s society and doing so for generations to come. Scientists say that we have already reached threshold levels on several resources, which could cause those ecological systems to collapse.

Most visualizations are designed to better understand past trends and future projections over many years, even decades.  We explore an issue using multiple applications: videos, GIS maps, trend projections, comparative graphics, and occasionally spreadsheets.

Our mission is to visualize sustainable solutions to global and local problems so that we make informed choices quicker.

• The World Resources Simulation Center launched in 2011 in San Diego is a unique facility design. 
• Licensing opportunities exist for organizations, institutions, foundations, and universities to create their own facilities, develop programs and relationships with global and local decision-makers.

Contact us first to arrange a tour and demonstration.  Attend several SimCenter events.  The SimCenter facility concept has utility in cities that are dealing the with challenging issues of growth and sustainability.

• The SimCenter is a project of the Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) a non-profit research institute founded and based in San Diego in 1987.  
• San Diego is blessed with top universities, on the doorstep of the Pacific Rim, and offers an exceptional quality of life.

We wanted to be in the heart of the decision-making community, as well as be convenient to all transportation options like trolley, train and bus.

We have a number of institutional and individual partners.

The SimCenter is a project of GENI, a non-profit 501c3 organization.  We:

• seek and receive sponsor support from institutions and individuals,
• offer memberships and partnerships,
• rent the SimCenter for others to use,
• sell information and products.

• The Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) focuses on the interconnection of electric power networks between communities, nations and continents, with an emphasis on tapping abundant renewable energy resources. 
• This strategy is the highest priority of the World Game™ simulation developed by Buckminster Fuller. 
• Linking renewable energy between all nations mollifies conflicts, grows economies, reduces pollution and increases the quality of life and health for all.

Buckminster Fuller was called the “Leonardo di Vinci of the 20th Century”, a visionary engineer who developed new tools based on natures design.  His World Game simulation provides the foundation for both GENI and the SimCenter, as the goal is to provide a decent quality of life for everyone in an environmentally sustainable manner.  See:  www.bfi.org

• Interns (Students) and Volunteers come to GENI and the SimCenter for many reasons: add to their skills, learn about the cleantech/green economy, learn a new language, and contribute to making the world a better place. 
• They conduct research into the renewable energy potential of nations and communities, high-voltage transmission, global and local issues, and may learn GIS mapping, provide audio/video editing, website development and international marketing – high value skills in the new economy. 
• They are a key strategy for accelerating the actualization of GENI’s mission and vision for the world.

We do have sponsorship and partner opportunities for companies and membership for individuals and institutions.

The SimCenter is available for rent by outside groups when there are no date or time conflicts.  We will discuss your event in detail to determine if we can meet your needs.