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"How can we make the need for resource security more obvious to diverse audiences?" asks Mathis Wackernagel

Mathis Wackernagel, founder and president of Global Footprint Network Why did you write “Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget” now? Bill Rees and I wrote our first Ecological Footprint book in 1995 at a time when our resource-use estimates were still crude. The book summarized my Ph. D. dissertation, including a presentation of the basic... View Full Article

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Food security in a
world of overshoot

Those with higher incomes than others are more likely to be able to buy more from other countries than vice versa. More ›

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1 October 2024

Nobel Sustainability Trust Bestows Sustainability Awards upon our Co-Founder Mathis Wackernagel

The Nobel Sustainability Trust just announced the winners of this year’s Sustainability Awards. One of the three awards will be... More ›

30 September 2024

The Biocapacity Blind Spot in National Security Strategies

By Abigail Robinson and Mathis Wackernagel First published on Medium Climate change is not the problem. The future has... More ›

21 July 2024

Earth Overshoot Day 2024 approaching

This year’s Earth Overshoot Day falls on August 1st: Humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year,... More ›

14 September 2023

New research published by Nature Food reveals food is primary driver of the EU-27’s outsized Ecological Footprint

One quarter of food consumed in the EU-27 originates from outside the region, highlighting the vulnerability of the EU’s food... More ›

14 August 2024

Companies' value creation in times of overshoot

In just seven months, humanity consumes as much from nature as Earth can regenerate in a year. Earth Overshoot Day... More ›

26 April 2021

72%

72% of the world population live in countries faced with a precarious situation. These countries both (1) run a biological... More ›

27 July 2023

The Power of Food

This year, Earth Overshoot Day falls on August 2nd. That’s the consequence of humanity demanding 70% more than Earth’s ecosystems... More ›

5 April 2023

Escape from Overshoot

Prof. Peter Victor, our colleague from York University, has authored a book about the 21st century’s most debilitating disease: global... More ›

18 January 2023

Don't reduce your Footprint!

By Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., founder and President This blog is dedicated to a young, brilliant student. Back in 1995, she... More ›

18 October 2021

Tackling Ecological Overshoot: The food system’s 10 “impossible imperatives”

Global Footprint Network and its partners characterize the food dilemma through a set of ten tough challenges we call the... More ›

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