Were you part of a board game published in 2023 that made sustainable choices in its design or manufacturing? The Board Game Sustainability Award is new at Origins this year! Apply via this link to this form:

Maybe come next year? Harrogate, UK. It’s very nice.

Also, if you weren’t at AireCon then you missed out. It was lovely, as always!

If you were at AireCon last weekend (hello @aireconuk!) then you probably heard me mention the Green Games Guide award. Anyone who published an environmentally friendly game during 2023 can nominate themselves here:

So, I’ve basically not been on Twitter for nearly a year. Is it still useful?

While we wait for our next episode, let's go back in time a couple of episodes ft. @QuakerDissent & @CarlosFloresLen. Topics included concerns about environmental policies, options for sustainability, expenses & consumer transitions 🌿🎲 #GoGreen #podcast

The award is open for nominations NOW, closing on 31 March 2024. There will be finalists (announced in April) and a winner (announced at the Origins Fair in the US in June). Open to any game, from anywhere in the world, as long as it was first available to customers in 2023.

So, we at the Green Games Guide are partnering with GAMA to introduce the annual Green Games Guide’s Sustainable Production Award. The award will recognise a game that has been designed to reduce its environmental impact. Maybe that’s you…?

Yes, we need everything to be made more sustainably. And yes, that INCLUDES board games! So thrilled to have been interviewed in the @Ludology podcast this week, about the launch of the @GreenGamesGuide earlier this month!

A group of board game industry veterans and climate experts have banded together to create a new guide designed to help tabletop game makers reduce their impact on the environment. https://t.co/GG9Ctc8XNJ Great work @GreenGamesGuide @TheOneTAR @zimmermaneric @CarlosFloresLen

Let's try this again! New episode of Ludology! @EricaBouyouris and @SenFoongLim talk with @CarlosFloresLen and @zimmermaneric about the @GreenGamesGuide, sustainability, and how we can lessen our hobby's impact on the planet. https://t.co/qP9vjvK96Z

Love games. Love the planet too. Let’s state the obvious: the climate and environmental crisis is an urgent and deadly planetary threat. -via @greengamesguide

. Well worth sharing, and expands on many of the articles and features we have already published in previous issues of Tabletop SPIRIT Magazine... And tog can also follow them here: @GreenGamesGuide

I’ve spent the past 18 months working with an awesome group of board game designers and sustainability researchers to help produce this guide for more sustainable board games. Give it a look if you are at all involved in the industry!

@GreenGamesGuide @Boardgamefeast Really great work. Thank you so much for compiling this guide 👍 I would love to have the main takeaways directly on the website so itt easier to share with others.

If you read the Green Games Guide today, then let us know what you think! There’s a feedback form on our website, and I am very interested in the responses….! Also, please share as much as possible! https://t.co/94ESQQFrr2

This is really important. Most actionable for folks working in the boardgame industry. But consumers also should learn more about what's in games. Tell publishers that you care about the stuff (and counteract all the noise they hear about demand for plastic minis)!

Designers, manufacturers, publishers, and everyone who plays games — how can we make board games more environmentally sustainable? Here is a compilation of suggestions, questions, and research. https://t.co/94ESQQFrr2