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4 September 2019

"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... Read More

23 July 2019

Global Footprint Network promotes real-world solutions that #MoveTheDate, accelerating the transition to one-planet prosperity

Available in additional languages OAKLAND, CA, USA — JULY 23, 2019 — On July 29, humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint. It... Read More

22 July 2019

The business case for one-planet prosperity

UPDATE: Read the op-ed by Mathis Wackernagel, founder and president of Global Footprint Network, and Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO and chairman of Schneider Electric, in the magazine Fortune. Ahead of Earth Overshoot Day this July 29, Schneider Electric, the leader in... Read More

22 July 2019

Earth Overshoot Day is just one day in the year. Biocapacity feeds us every day.

Earth Overshoot Day is not just one special day of the year. It is an effort to celebrate biocapacity — our planet’s biological power to regenerate life. This primary productivity of nature is the source for all life, including human... Read More

26 June 2019

Earth Overshoot Day 2019 is July 29th, the earliest ever

Available in additional languages OAKLAND, CA, USA — JUNE 26, 2019 — On July 29, humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint. The Ecological... Read More

22 May 2019

IMPAKTER: Liquidating Our Future Versus Lasting Prosperity

Ponzi (or pyramid) schemes are scams in which you rob Peter to pay Paul. But no individual has been greater at implementing a Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff: his scheme vaporized $65 billion of client money. He relied on a... Read More

16 May 2019

RESEARCH OUTREACH: How Global Footprint Network is using data to show people how to protect our planet

There is only one Earth, but humans are consuming biological resources as if there were more Earths available. Last year, Global Footprint Network marked ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ on 1st August; humanity had used our budget of resources for the year... Read More

14 May 2019

Mathis vs. Malthus:
Can countries escape the resource trap?

By Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. Humanity has achieved so much, including rising longevity around the world, hyper-connectivity, easy and cheap access to information, incredibly safe mobility. Yet there are critical arenas in which progress is so slow that it is starting... Read More

10 May 2019

BBC: Europe 'takes too much of Earth resources'

People in Europe are snatching more than their fair share of the world’s resources, a report says today. It says Europeans emit too much carbon, eat too much food, use large amounts of timber and occupy too much built space.... Read More

8 May 2019

OOOM: Mathis Wackernagel: Österreich zerstört Österreich

Der Schweizer Wissenschaftler Mathis Wackernagel erfand den „ökologischen Fußabdruck“ und gilt als einer der globalen Vordenker im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit. Der Präsident des Global Footprint Network geht mit Österreich hart ins Gericht: Der Ausbau des Wiener Flughafens sei ein totaler Rückschritt... Read More