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Attention educators:
Updated September 30, 2020 Dear Educators, Thank you for using our Ecological Footprint Calculator in your classroom! If you are having some problems using the calculator, we are offering you some suggestions here as well as some background on why... Read More
Earth Overshoot Day 2017 Highlights
2017 was an exceptional year for building the momentum to #movethedate! Read More
Why sustainability hinges on food choices
Understanding humanity’s approach to food (including production, consumption, and waste) is essential to designing global sustainability, argues Alessandro Galli, Global Footprint Network Senior Scientist and Director of the Mediterranean Program, in an article recently published by esglobal, the latest iteration... Read More
El Poder Ecológico: Our Colombian partnership to advance sustainability
This July, Global Footprint Network was fortunate to host government representatives from Nariño, Colombia, for a two-week work session at our offices in Oakland in support of their effort to transform their province into a green economy. After decades of... Read More
World Resources Forum 2017
Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network CEO, is a plenary speaker at WRF 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Forum consists of two days of plenary debates, partner workshops, scientific sessions, exhibition, press conferences, and more. It is designed to deliver open... Read MoreLe Monde: Depuis aujourd’hui, l’humanité vit à crédit
La date est fatidique, et toujours plus précoce. Depuis mercredi 2 août, l’humanité vit à crédit : elle a consommé, en seulement sept mois, toutes les ressources que la Terre peut produire en une année. Jusqu’à la fin de 2017,... Read More
Expanding Our Calculator’s Footprint
Our biggest feat this year was launching a new mobile-friendly Footprint Calculator just in time for Earth Overshoot Day, which allows users to calculate their Footprint and their personal Overshoot Day. We were blown away by the number of users... Read More
The Huge (or Tiny) Ecological Footprint of Cannabis
What is the Ecological Footprint of pot? Global Footprint Network tackled that question recently in an analysis of the Ecological Footprint of medical cannabis production in three locations—Colombia, Washington, and Colorado—for PharmaCielo, a Colombian medical cannabis producer headquartered in Canada.... Read More