Climate change joins the fray with “Eco Lifestyle”, the ninth major expansion pack for The Sims 4. Designed to limit your Sims’ environmental impact, the pack introduces some important changes to how your Sims live and interact with their local community. The Sims 4’s Eco Lifestyle expansion pack introduces many new features, including new hairstyles (mostly “hipster” cuts and updos), furniture items, housing lots and mechanics. The most relevant, however, is the “eco-footprint” system which grades how environmentally sustainable your Sim’s house and lifestyle is. Sims are graded on many different types of actions, such as town-wide initiatives, the purchasing of eco-enabling technology (such as rain catchers and solar panels) or by upgrading existing electronics with eco-friendly parts. The most important of these new actions are community initiatives known as Neighbourhood Action Plans (NAPs). These could be cleaning up the local neighbourhood, developing new trees etc.