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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Ecological Footprint is a simple metric. It is also uniquely comprehensive. Not only does it measure humanity’s demand on our planet’s ecosystems, but it is also key to understanding the inter-related pressures of climate change on the natural ecosystems...
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¿Cuánto tardaremos en destruir el planeta? ¿Sabe quién es Justin Bieber? ¡Qué remedio! Pues tiene 23 años y durante su corta vida, la humanidad ha quemado el 41% de todos los combustibles fósiles que ha consumido en su historia. Pues...
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