OAKLAND, CA, June 31, 2017—Global Footprint Network, an international research organization, is marking Earth Overshoot Day with the launch of a new mobile-friendly Footprint calculator at www.footprintcalculator.org. Earth Overshoot Day is the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth...
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OAKLAND, CA, June 27, 2017—On August 2, humanity will have used nature’s budget for the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric. Carbon sequestration makes up 60...
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Are you one of the two million people who used our Ecological Footprint Calculator last year?If so, you know it’s value and impact. You also know an update of the calculator is overdue. Help us make it even more accessible,...
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Alessandro Galli, Director of Global Footprint Network’s Mediterranean-MENA Program, will speak at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 4, on Portugal’s use of natural resources through the lens of Ecological Footprint accounting. He will be joined by Francisco Ferreira, Presidente, ZERO – Associação Sistema...
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What are the barriers to sustainability for a city, an airport? What could Google Earth possibly still need in its quest to apply data to environmental challenges? What would you like a conversation on data and sustainability to sound like...
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Global Footprint Network won the corporate entity category for Science Magazine Data Stories Contest on May 4. Our 90-second video was created as part of the April launch of our new Ecological Footprint Explorer open data platform. The video was created by Alexandre Magnin...
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President Trump has acted on his campaign promises to reverse Obama’s environmental policies…The United States is one of the world’s biggest consumers, and U.S. policies can have global environmental effects. As of 2013, the world’s population would need 1.7 Earths...
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While many countries have made concerted efforts in recent years to reduce their carbon footprint in an attempt to slow global warming, most are still consuming far more than the earth can support and thereby creating an ecological footprint that...
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Unlike Gov. Jerry Brown, I don’t “like to think about catastrophe” when considering how the world is addressing climate change. However, I second his statement made at a climate change conference in San Francisco during Earth Week, that “we’ve got...
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