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Earth Overshoot Day 2017 is Aug. 2, the earliest date since ecological overshoot began in the early 1970s
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... Read More
Highlights from the Footprint Explorer Launch Celebration
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... Read More
Global Footprint Network Wins Science Magazine Data Stories Contest
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... 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
California has the same size Ecological Footprint as France. How do other states and countries compare?
Thanks to a Twitter prod from a friend, we created this map above comparing the Ecological Footprints of the US states with those of seven countries. (No, the Tweet was not from the most infamous Tweeter in the US today.... Read More
Switzerland
Updated May 2022 In December 2006, Switzerland became the first country to work with Global Footprint Network to examine and understand its Ecological Footprint and biocapacity results. Since then, more than a dozen other countries have followed suit. The Swiss... Read More
New Report: Russia sees decline in ecological reserve since 2009
Russia is among a minority of countries with more natural resources than its population consumes. However, since 2009, that “ecological reserve” has declined 16 percent, indicating the start of a troubling trend. Those are among the findings of a new report,... Read More
Guiding sustainability in Montenegro
In the wake of last month’s elections in Montenegro, we are confident the new government will maintain its commitment to the 3.5-year-long process of revising the country’s National Strategy for Sustainable Development (NSSD), which, through many consultations with diverse stakeholders,... Read More