Graphics cards (have an enormous amount of computational power, which makes them so energy intensive) can be used to simulate protein folding, making them a valuable tool in understanding and fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. You can participate to the [email protected] service, a distributed computing project from Stanford University founded in 2000 and donate computational power by running a software on your computer.

A really cool project by Reporters Without Borders! In many countries, websites, social media and blogs are controlled by oppressive leaders. Young people, in particular, are forced to grow up in systems where their opinion is heavily manipulated by governmental disinformation campaigns. But even where most media is blocked, Minecraft is still accessible and can help bypass internet censorship.

Article by Cian Maher for TheVerge. - Games have huge potential as interactive education tools. The article looks at the indie games Beyond Blue, Abzu, Endling, Temtem, Bee Simulator and the people behind these games. A great quote from one of the gameamakers: “We believe that well-crafted games have the power to speak to the human condition,” he tells me. “ bring new and diverse voices to the medium, and celebrate the complexity and beauty of our planet, helping us to understand and shape our world.”

Article by Rebekah Valentine, staff writer at gamesindustry.biz. - Article about the great news that Microsoft just announced! Microsoft has committed that they will be carbon negative by 2030 for direct emissions and their entire supply and value chain.

Article by Haydn Taylor, senior staff writer at gamesindustry.biz. - Led by Dr Ben Abraham at The University of Technology in Sydney, a survey has launched to measure the environmental impact of game development. The survey also attempts to asses the position of developers towards climate change.

Article by Nathan Grayson, senior reporter at Kotaku. - The article tells the story of a group of streamers that raised $220,000 to fight Australian bushfires in 36 hours. Great example of the community coming together. Let's not just treat the symptoms, but work to be part of the solution too though!

Video by VOX.com - Tech giants Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are working with Big Oil to extract more oil and gas by using machine learning. The companies have been very vocal and active about their sustainability efforts. In parallel though, they are currently teaming up with the fossil fuel industry and profiting from them.

Article by Lewis Gordon for the verge. - An excellent article breaking down the environmental and human impacts of Sony’s Playstation 4 console. Looking at our hardware is another crucial piece of the puzzle to figure out how of what video games have to do with climate change.

Article by Jessica Murray, writer for The Guardian. - More than 600 social media creators, many of them with gaming channels join the #TeamTrees fundraising campaign to plant 20m trees. Each $1 donation plants one tree. They have currently raised more than 15m $ by rallying their large numbers of followers.