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Helsinki Times: Finns used year's worth of natural resources in three months
Finns have already drained their share of the planet’s natural resource budget for the year. WWF Finland reported yesterday, citing calculations made by the Global Footprint Network, that the country reached its overshoot day on 3 April, 2017. Read MoreLa Vanguardia: La huella ecológica mundial: país por país
Los españoles necesitan de media 3,7 hectáreas para satisfacer sus consumos y absorber sus residuos. Es decir, casi el triple de lo que el territorio español ofrece. Con el ritmo de vida de los españoles, sería necesario que España fuera... Read More
Ecological Footprint Explorer Open Data Platform Launches
OAKLAND, CA, April 5, 2017—Ecological Footprint data for over 200 countries is now freely available, searchable and usable at Ecological Footprint Explorer, the new open data platform that Global Footprint Network launches on April 5 at data.footprintnetwork.org. By offering researchers,... Read MoreHuffington Post: How Will Coal Make America Great Again?
The Trump Administration says undoing the Clean Power Plan would help the economy and bring back coal jobs. But our latest data show Trump’s climate policies run counter to significant 21st-century gains the United States has made decoupling economic expansion... Read More
International Women's Day: Empowering women for a world that works for all
As an organization with a vision of a world that works for everyone and our planet, we believe that empowering women is one of the most important things we can do in service of global sustainability because it yields huge... Read More
Vancouver kicks off neighborhood Footprint campaign
This week, residents in three Vancouver neighborhoods start tracking their food consumption, waste patterns, and transportation habits for 14 days. They’ll repeat the same exercise one year from now. Their goal: reduce their Ecological Footprint by at least 15 percent... Read More
City Footprints: Data for Action
City-level Footprint assessments can be used to positively reinforce collective public achievements thus far. They can also help design sustainability policies to reach more ambitious goals going forward. Using a top-down approach that allow for shareable standards and useful comparability... Read More