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On Earth Overshoot Day (Aug. 2), calculate your own Overshoot Day and #movethedate
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... Read More
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
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 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