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Imagine writing a letter to the future. And getting a reply.

Love Letters to the Future is part puzzle, part story, part activism. It’s about climate change and the impacts it will have on our future. It’s a multi-platform experience – an alternate reality game – created by Emmy Award winning Xenophile Media in cooperation with Greenpeace, and it’s live now.

Thousands of participants have already posted messages for the time capsule on the Love Letters to the Future website.(1) They have voted for each other’s love letters, with the best to be placed in a time capsule, and shared their favourites with friends on Facebook.

The top-rated messages will be placed in time capsules designed to last hundreds of years. The first time capsule will be sealed at an event in Copenhagen on 13 December. The time capsule is shockproof, waterproof and designed to last above ground for 500 years. It will include the selected love letters, plus some physical objects related to climate change. Messages will be encoded using Monolith Card Technology.(2)

In the year 2109, in a future devastated by climate change, someone finds our messages… and replies.(3)

The first video replies from the future can already be found by searching for “maya 2109″ on www.loveletterstothefuture.com.

To access more videos, people will need to solve puzzles. Clues will be left on the website and in physical locations around the world. In some cities, Layar augmented reality technology will be used to plant virtual clues.(4)

“The leaders at Copenhagen and those they represent need to think about the consequences of their actions for the future. This game is about imagining that future,” said Andrew Davies, web producer at Greenpeace International.