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Impakter: Planetary prosperity means zero carbon
Mother Nature seems to be in full revolt. A stone’s throw from the city of Oakland, where Global Footprint Network is based, the seasonal Diablo winds recently reached record intensity, fanning the worst fires that the famous wine-producing region of Napa has... Read More
Friends of the Footprint Calculator
Friends of our Ecological Footprint Calculator around the world share their experiences using this popular tool as students and educators. Join our Adopt-a-Country campaign now to add languages and country data to the calculator to educate millions more people about... Read MoreSalesforce: What happens when everyone wants one?
For every innovation, we need to include in our assessment some questions of the form: “What if this catches on?” Not merely the Dragons’ Den question of “Can this business scale?” – but the Global Footprint Network question of, “Can... Read MoreEcoDebate: Os três países mais populosos possuem os três maiores déficits ambientais
Nos últimos 250 anos, o progresso humano tem ocorrido às custas do regresso ambiental e o enriquecimento da humanidade tem ocorrido em função do empobrecimento da biodiversidade. O impacto negativo sobre o meio ambiente é tanto maior quanto cresce o... Read More
One-Planet Cities
UPDATE: Watch Dr Wackernagel’s lecture Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network Founder and CEO, will be speaking at the Oskar von Miller Forum in Munich at 6:30 pm on 18 January 2018. For details in German, visit the Oskar von Miller... Read MoreMother Earth Living: Tracking Our Ecological Footprint
This discovery about ecological footprints, for me, happened in my senior year of college when I enrolled in an introductory environmental science class. I loved it because most of our labs consisted of us taking field trips to different off-site... Read More
Ecological Footprint: Unleashing Data for Sustainability
Program Director Laurel Hanscom will give a talk on the Ecological Footprint, our Footprint Explorer open data platform, and Earth Overshoot Day on Nov. 28 at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. The event is being hosted by the Berkeley... Read MoreThe Guardian: Humanity uses 70% more of the global commons than the Earth can regenerate
Households and governments who want to succeed track both expenditure and income. Businesses similarly keep a keen eye on their balance sheets. So what does the physical balance sheet of our biggest household – the Earth – look like? The... Read More