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20 December 2015

New Footprint Calculator Exhibit at Brazil's Museum of Tomorrow

Our personal Footprint Calculator recently took on a life of its own in Rio de Janeiro’s brand new Museum of Tomorrow. An architectural feat with futuristic lines, the museum features wide touchscreens in its lobby where visitors can calculate their... Read More

5 February 2015

Cloughjordan leads the way toward sustainable living

If everyone on Earth lived the lifestyle of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage, we would be remarkably close to living within the budget of our planet’s ecological resources. Researcher Vince Carragher’s bottom-up Ecological Footprint accounting methodology helps residents stay on track. Seven... Read More

24 August 2013

Earth Overshoot Day 2013, around the world

As of this week, we are in overshoot. Humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year. August 20 was Earth Overshoot Day 2013, the approximate date humanity’s ecological resource consumption exceeded what Earth can renew this year. A mere 34... Read More

15 August 2011

San Francisco looks at its Footprint

In 2010, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) teamed up with Global Footprint Network to explore the Ecological Footprint of San Francisco, a city that prides itself on leading the US in forward-thinking sustainability policies. With urban... Read More

16 April 2010

For Earth Day, learn how many planets your lifestyle requires

Since its release two years ago, more than one million people in the U.S., Australia and Canada have used Global Footprint Network’s Ecological Footprint calculator to evaluate their level of resource demand and identify ways of reducing it. Now, with... Read More