VIRTUAL EVENT: EUSTEPs 1st Multiplier Event
Watch the event recording 27 January 2021, 10 am – 11:15 am CET Education is increasingly gaining a central role in easing the transition to a sustainable world. However, too few universities are properly equipped to teach sustainability in a... Read More
Bright spots from 2020
In a year seemingly filled with more darkness than light—global pandemic, fires, social injustices, hurricanes, to name a few—we’re highlighting “bright spots” that didn’t make mainstream. We want all to thrive and be prosperous on our one planet, so we’re... Read More
Getting to know the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts
We sat down (virtually, of course) with David Lin, our Chief Science Officer and Eric Miller, Director, Ecological Footprint Initiative, York University in Toronto, to discuss the new 2021 edition of the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. First, can you... Read MorePUBLICO: Portugal tem a maior pegada alimentar do Mediterrâneo
Portugal importa 73% dos alimentos e é o país mediterrânico com a maior pegada alimentar per capita, conclui um estudo da Universidade de Aveiro (UA), divulgado esta segunda-feira. “A alimentação pesa 30% na pegada ecológica dos portugueses, mais do que os transportes ou... Read More
WEBINAR: One-Planet Prosperity - Choosing our Future by Design, not Disaster
Watch the event recording “One planet” is not a metaphor; it is a description. It is not a goal, but rather a recognition of our context. It acknowledges that there is a limited ecological budget our planet makes available. Human... Read More
SDGS: BUILDING BACK BETTER: Biodiversity for survival
I am proud to be a sack of ocean water walking on land. After all, life started to evolve in our planet’s oceans. Some life forms bagged up that water, added legs, and started to live on land. We, people,... Read MoreTHE ECONOMIST: Human beings are wreaking havoc on the Earth’s biodiversity
“HUMAN BEINGS have overrun the world.” So laments Sir David Attenborough, a world-famous nonagenarian naturalist, in his new film, “David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet”. The film charts the “devastating changes” that humans have wrought on the planet’s biodiversity.... Read More
7th Portuguese town announces its Footprint results
Portugal’s City Footprinting initiative marked a new milestone yesterday, as the second cohort of municipalities to join the program started publishing the results of their Footprint assessment yesterday. In the city of Barcelos, masked elected officials and researchers from the... Read More