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VIRTUAL EVENT: As manipulative communication diminishes impact, what are alternatives?
The climate narrative has not produced the needed results. It’s a tough nut to crack, but there may be better ways. What we do know: most climate narratives’ underlying assumptions are self-limiting (e.g., they embody the disempowering but common view... Read More
VIRTUAL EVENT: Approaching climate with heart and teeth
Waiting for global consensus is a fragile climate strategy. This has become even more apparent since the Ukraine conflict. More effective is to recognize that the future context in which we will operate has never been more predictable: people will... Read MoreTHE BRUSSELS TIMES: Earth Overshoot Day: Belgium lives on ecological credit from today
More than four planets would be needed if the whole world had the same ecological footprints as Belgium. Every year, using statistical data from 200 countries, the organisations set the date for the Earth’s ‘Overshoot Day’ – the date when... Read MoreCOSMOS: Finding Australia’s biocapacity
We currently need 1.75 Earths to sustain Earth’s population. Last year, the world ran through a year’s worth of resources on the 29th of July. If everyone in the world lived like Australians, we’d use more than the Earth can... Read MoreSWI: Mathis Wackernagel: "Privilegien und Resignation – ein toxisches Gemisch"
In unserem Zoom-Gespräch führt mich Mathis Wackernagel durch seine Kindheitserinnerungen in der Schweiz. “Schon als Kind habe ich mich gefragt: Wie können wir die Ressourcen eines begrenzten Planeten unbegrenzt nutzen?”, beginnt er. Wackernagel ist in Basel geboren und aufgewachsen. Im... Read More
The Ecological Footprint Initiative hosts the 2022 NFA Launch Event
On March 7th, York University’s Ecological Footprint Initiative hosted the online launch of the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts, 2022 edition. Based on 48 million data points from UN statistics, these accounts provide data for more than 200 countries from... Read More
Celebrating highlights from 2021
There’s no sugarcoating it: 2021 turned out to be a challenging year for us all. However, we celebrate that it was also a year that brought biodiversity to the forefront of the public debate. Home-bound urban dwellers spoke out about... Read More