News Archive

• Is GDP An Obsolete Measure of Progress?
  Could it be that the GDP, that gold standard of economic data, might not be the best way to gauge a nation's relative prosperity? One new calculation that's been attracting attention is the Happy Planet Index (HPI), which combines economic metrics with indicators of well-being, including subjective measures of life satisfaction, which have become quite sophisticated (HPI uses data from Gallup, World Values Survey, and Ecological Footprint). (more...)
  TIME, , January 30, 2010
• Economic growth cannot buy the planet more time
  Global economic growth - in its current form - cannot continue if nations are serious about curbing climate change, says Andrew Simms. The latest set of accounts for humanity's ecological footprint reveal that, conservatively, it takes the Earth nearly 18 months to produce the ecological services that humanity uses in one year. (more...)
  BBC, UK, January 26, 2010
• Europe's Post-Copenhagen View of Obama
  The Copenhagen summit on climate change taught Europe a hard lesson about its trans-Atlantic partner. Great hope had greeted President Obama when he replaced George W. Bush at the American helm, but a year later Europeans are realizing that Mr. Obama is going to have a very difficult time delivering on his agenda. (more...)
  New York Times, , January 13, 2010
• The Happiest People
  Costa Rica wins the day, for achieving contentment and longevity in an environmentally sustainable way. The Dominican Republic ranks second, the United States 114th (because of its huge ecological footprint) and Zimbabwe is last. (more...)
  The New York Times, San Jose, Costa Rica, January 06, 2010
• World carbon emissions overshoot "budget": PwC
  The world has emitted extra greenhouse gases this century equivalent to the annual totals of China and the United States above a maximum for avoiding the worst of climate change, a study estimated Tuesday. (more...)
  Reuters.com, Oslo, December 01, 2009
• Climate conference emits its share of carbon
  If they fail to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen, world leaders flying in their private jets and huddling in five-star hotels will have little to show for their efforts beyond a big, fat carbon footprint. (more...)
  Associated Press, Copenhagen, December 15, 2009
• Letting a thousand flowers wither
  SEEKING to alleviate poverty, reduce world hunger and protect biodiversity sounds, to your correspondent’s ears, like something a Miss World hopeful might have pledged in the 1980s. In fact, it was what a professor of soil quality at a lesser-known university in the Netherlands promised to a scientific conference that concluded on October 16th. (more...)
  The Economist, London, October 20, 2009
• Menschheit verbraucht Ressourcen schneller als sie nachwachsen
  Die Menschheit verbraucht die natürlichen Ressourcen schneller als sie nachwachsen können. Um den Jahresverbrauch der Menschen zu regenerieren, benötigt die Erde inzwischen etwa 18 Monate, besagt eine Studie der US-Umweltschutzinitiative Global Footprint Network. (more...)
  A-Z.ch, Switzerland, November 24, 2009
• Nuestro déficit ecológico
  Los patrones de consumo de los costarricenses, dice el informe sobre el ‘ Estado de la Nación,’ superan los recursos que nuestro territorio es capaz de producir. En los foros sobre cambio climático, Costa Rica debe hablar con firmeza y, ojalá, con la autoridad moral de un país capaz de contribuir cuanto sea necesario. (more...)
  Nacion.com, Costa Rica, November 25, 2009
• Una herramienta para buscar nuestro desarrollo sostenible
  Mientras por un lado hablamos de la importancia de los recursos naturales, por otro seguimos aferrados al concepto de que desarrollo implica necesariamente incrementos en la producción y en el consumo. Lo que nos obliga a preguntarnos: ¿cuánto “desarrollo” y cuánto desgaste de los recursos naturales son aceptables para asegurar un balance entre estos factores y una buena calidad de vida? (more...)
  La Prensa Libre, Costa Rica, November 26, 2009
• Wir haben ein Problem
  
  EBL, Switzerland, November 09, 2009
• Wir sollen wie Bauern denken
  Der gebürtige Basler Mathis Wackernagel ist ein scharfsinniger und nüchtermner Umweltstratege (more...)
  Mittelland Zeitung, Switzerland, November 18, 2009
• La Huella de Goldfinger
  
  Caretas, Lima, Peru, July 09, 2009
• A demanda e a oferta do capital natural renovável
  
  Desafios, Brasília, Brazil, April 30, 2009
• Recursos de um planeta finito
  
  Desafios, Brasília, Brazil, April 30, 2009
• Mankind Using Earth's Resources at Alarming Rate
  Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday. As it is, humanity each year uses resources equivalent to nearly one-and-a-half Earths to meet its needs, said the report by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank. (more...)
  Agence France Presse, Washington, DC, November 23, 2009
• Can we save the summit that was supposed to save the world?
  It is a classic tactic in international diplomacy. If you’re worried about not succeeding, talk up your chances of failure in the hope that whatever you do end up achieving looks like a success. That is exactly what has been happening in the run-up to the crucial world climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. (more...)
  HeraldScotland.com, Scotland, December 22, 2009
• Report: the future of Africa looks bleak
  A report by the Global Footprint released today said effective management of ecological assets can help address poverty and support changes to human life, as spelled out in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (more...)
  Daily News, Tanzania, January 04, 2010
• Vancouver engineers its own urban dream
  If everyone on Earth lived as people in Vancouver did, Rees calculated, it would take four planets to keep them alive. That message resonated, and it changed Rees' adopted city. To a degree probably unmatched anywhere else in North America, the city of Vancouver has tried to impose notions of sustainability in its decisions on what, where and how to build. (more...)
  The Los Angeles Times, Vancouver, Canada, January 12, 2010
• We're Borrowing Half A Planet From Our Kids
  Global society draws down the planet’s capital ever more quickly. According to new data just released by the Global Footprint Network, our ecological footprint amounts to 6.4 acres per person – almost 50 percent more than the Earth’ biocapacity of 4.5 acres per person. (more...)
  The Huffington Post, , November 30, 2009
• Abu Dhabi sets ambitious green tourism targets
  Abu Dhabi has announced ambitious environmental targets for 2010, promising to slash energy, water and waste-to-landfill usage. In 2008, the WWF ranked the United Arab Emirates as having the largest ecological footprint per capita of any country on the planet, primarily due to its carbon levels from intensive energy needs. (more...)
  The Independent, United Arab Emirates, January 07, 2010
• Humanity's Increasing Impact
  New data shows that humanity’s ecological footprint grew almost two per cent between 2005 and 2006 and we now need nearly one and a half Planet Earths to support human activity. (more...)
  AustralianGeographic.com, Australia, December 02, 2009
• Gab on global warming heats up on funds, liability
  As 192 nations try to hammer out a global climate-change deal better than the expiring Kyoto Protocol to keep Earth temperature limited to 2ºC, pressure has also been mounting on the rich and industrialized countries to agree to specific carbon cuts, especially under a finding released by the California-based think tank Global Footprint Network that American energy-guzzling is at the rate of the energy of five Earths. (more...)
  BusinessMirror, Copenhagen, December 15, 2009
• Sustainable Future?
  According to the Global Footprint Network and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India now has the world’s third largest ecological footprint (after the United States and China), and its citizens are using almost twice what the natural resources within the country can sustain. (more...)
  Frontline Magazine, India, January 02, 2010
• Response to the Environment Ministry
  Every developing country wants to act like the United States and be like the United States though this is physically impossible. According to the Global According to the Global Footprint Network, Turkey’s total bio-capacity figure stands at 1.5. The translation is, is if the entire humanity lived just like we do, we would need two earths! (more...)
  Daily News & Economic Review, Turkey, December 31, 2009
• G.D.P. R.I.P.
  G.D.P. is one measure of national income, of how much wealth Americans make, and it’s a deeply foolish indicator of how the economy is doing. It ought to join buggy whips and VCRs on the dust-heap of history. (more...)
  New York Times, New York, August 09, 2009
• State of the Earth 2010
  There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. Together, we consume 1.4 Earths' worth of resources per year. (more...)
  National Geographic, New York, September 01, 2009
• Ecological creditors and debtors
  Article by Mathis Wackernagel in United Nations Environmental Programme policy magazine discusses a new context for recognizing natural capital as a core national asset. (more...)
  UNEP Environment and Poverty Times, , August 01, 2009
• A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth
  It has been more than 30 years since a groundbreaking book predicted that if growth continued unchecked, the Earth’s ecological systems would be overwhelmed within a century. The latest study from an international team of scientists should serve as an eleventh-hour warning that cannot be ignored. By Bill McKibben (more...)
  Yale Environment 360, New Haven, Conn., October 01, 2009
• The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use
  As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem — the global crisis in land use. (more...)
  Yale Environment 360, New Haven, Conn., October 05, 2009
• Securing human development in a resource-constrained world
  The newsletter of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) invited Mathis Wackernagel Ph.D., co-founder of the Ecological Footprint and President of the Global Footprint Network, to share his views on what we should be thinking about as we prepare for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009. (more...)
  OECD DACnews, , October 01, 2009
• Questions for the new world
  Our need for a greener, life-enhancing economic model should make us seek answers in the unlikeliest of places. (more...)
  The Guardian, UK, December 17, 2009
• The Hidden Life of What We Buy
  Each of these three books is an attempt to address this issue – to explore the ‘life cycle’ and ‘environmental footprint’ of the stuff we buy: one by telling us about it, one by arguing that we should be told more, and one by offering a solution. (more...)
  Scoop Review of Books, New Zealand, November 17, 2009
• Boiling the Frog
  Is America on its way to becoming a boiled frog? The hypothetical boiled frog is a useful metaphor for a very real problem: the difficulty of responding to disasters that creep up on you a bit at a time. And right now, both the economic and the environmental frogs are sitting still while the water gets hotter. (more...)
  The New York Times, New York, July 12, 2009
• Happy Costa Ricans top global list for the good life
  Costa Rica, the country of fewer than 5m people sandwiched between Panama and Nicaragua, tops a new global ranking for combining a happy and long life with limited environmental degradation. (more...)
  Financial Times, London, July 04, 2009
• The Happy Planet Index
  We’ve written before about alternative measures to gross domestic product. These are generally attempts to take into account how happy, healthy and environmentally friendly a nation is, not just how much it produces in goods and services. (more...)
  New York Times, USA, July 06, 2009
• Uganda likely to lose all forest cover in 50 yrs
  Uganda will lose its entire forest cover in the next 50 years if the government does not embark on immediate efforts to halt rapid deforestation. Forests and tree planting can help mitigate the effects of global warming by increasing carbon storage and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. (more...)
  Reuters, Nairobi, July 09, 2009
• Calculate your eco-footprint
  Ahmedabad: On the occasion of World Environment Day, Gujarat Science City (GSC) organised a special game for visitors called 'Calculate your ecological footprint', in order to gauge their knowledge in the area of environmental awareness. (more...)
  Daily News and Anlysis, India, June 06, 2009
• Defining "Total Environmental Impact"
  To live sustainably we first have to understand the many different impacts of our consumption – from energy use and CO2, to air and water pollution — and how these impacts affect the planet as whole. Being a modern day homo sapiens is complicated, but fortunately, there are several helpful scientific models that give us a way to measure our environmental impacts directly. (more...)
  Greendig.net, , June 03, 2009
• How Carbon Markets Can Make Both Economic and Ecological Sense
  Preserving forests might make economic sense for governments and forest dwellers, and it could also help preserve the habitats of endangered mammals such as orangutans and elephants, according to a study released this week. (more...)
  Dot Earth (New York Times), , June 05, 2009
• Solar power plants planned for Sahara
  Today, around a dozen companies launched the Desertec Industrial Initiative. It’s backers claim that within a decade, the initiative could provide Europeans with electricity generated by renewable energy projects in the Sahara. The project will cost €400bn and may one day provide 15 per cent of Europe’s electricity needs. (more...)
  The Financial Times Limited, Berlin, July 12, 2009
• Leben auf zu grossem Fuss
  
  Neue Zürcher Zeitung (New Zuricher Newspaper), Zurich, Switzerland, February 03, 2008
• Es droht der ökologische Bankrott
  
  Beobachter Kompakt, , March 01, 2008
• Wir bauen ökologische Schulden auf
  
  Der Bund, , December 01, 2007
• Let's get real about alternative energy
  We need to introduce simple arithmetic into our discussions of energy. (more...)
  CNN, U.S.A., May 13, 2009
• Pick hairstyle, save the world
  CNN"s Josh Levs shows how to calculate your impact on the environment using an "avatar." (more...)
  CNN, U.S.A. , April 25, 2009
• Earth Day and the Elephant in the Room
  Well, another Earth Day has come and gone. And amid all the articles and blogs, symposia and TV specials about all the things we can do to save the planet, once again it was hard to find any substantive discussion of the single biggest threat to the environment. Namely, the staggering rise in global population. (more...)
  The Huffington Post, U.S., April 24, 2009
• Canada among world's largest consumers
  Candles? Check. Flashlight? Check. All set to celebrate Earth Hour? Great. While you're sitting in the dark, let's shine a light on how much of the planet's resources you've been using up. (more...)
  The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, March 28, 2009
• The Inflection Is Near?
  What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when we hit the wall — when Mother Nature and the market both said: “No more.” (more...)
  New York Times, New York, March 07, 2009
• Ecological Footprints
  The world’s biggest consumer of natural resources is the United Arab Emirates. If every country mirrored the UAE’s ecological footprint, we would need more than four planets to satisfy demand. (more...)
  Financial Times, London, February 28, 2009
• Planet Overload
  Ecological footprinting measures national and global biological productive capacity (the stuff we live off) against human demand (the “footprint”). The resulting data takes both population and consumption into account and provides what many regard as the best guide yet to measuring sustainability. (more...)
  New Statesman, London, UK, March 05, 2009
• Yet Another 'Footprint' to Worry About: Water
  It takes roughly 20 gallons of water to make a pint of beer, as much as 132 gallons of water to make a 2-liter bottle of soda, and about 500 gallons, including water used to grow, dye and process the cotton, to make a pair of Levi's stonewashed jeans. Taking a cue from carbon tracking, companies and conservationists tally hidden sources of consumption... (more...)
  Wall Street Journal, New York, February 17, 2009
• After the Crash: How to be Happy Anyway
  Ecological footprint analysis shows it would take more than six Earths to give everyone in the world the level of consumption Americans "enjoy." Of course, we have only one planet, and this one is overheating… (more...)
  Huffington Post, New York, NY, February 25, 2009
• It Is Time to Order a New Economic Order
  The evidence is everywhere that continued dedication to 'economic growth,' per se, will destroy the Earth's ability to provide a healthy home for most life forms. (more...)
  Huffington Post, New York, February 10, 2009
• Assessing Northern Australia’s ecological footprint
  “The ecological footprint brings home locally responsibility for global impact in a way that is less easily contested than greenhouse gas production,” he said. “In a resource-based economy much of the energy use is undertaken for consumers elsewhere." (more...)
  Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia, February 19, 2009
• Population: The elephant in the room
  Most natural scientists agree our growing numbers and our unchecked impact on the natural environment move us inexorably toward global calamities of unthinkable severity…Just look at the data from the Global Footprint Network group. They estimate that we'll remain in overshoot unless we also address population. (more...)
  BBC News, London, February 02, 2009
• Population growth: the forgotten worry, though crisis continues
  The Global Footprint Network, which calculates the effect humans have on the environment and translates it to acres of land and water, estimates it would take more than two Earths to support human needs for food, raw materials and energy by 2050 if the U.N. projections are right... (more...)
  The Oregonian, Portland, OR, February 06, 2009
• Hong Kong: small island, big resource demands
  At 4.4 global hectares per person, Hong Kong residents have an Ecological Footprint twice that typical for China as a whole. Hong Kong also has one of the greatest ecological deficits in the world, according to Hong Kong Ecological Footprint Report: Living Beyond Our Means. The report details Hong Kong’s resource use and its role in the overall ecological picture of China – a country that now ties with the US as the largest user of the world’s biocapacity. (more...)
  People & the Planet, London, January 12, 2009
• Leave only footprints
  The UAE retains its position as the nation with the largest ecological footprint per capita in the WWF's biennial Living Planet Report, released towards the end of 2008. UAE environment and water minister HE Dr Rashid Ahmad bin Fahad tells us what needs to be done. (more...)
  Arabian Business, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 03, 2009
• Don't fix the economy - change it
  The financial crisis has brought into sharp focus the need to fundamentally change, not merely repair or rebuild, our economy. Because, quite simply, sticking with an economic model that is driving toward ecological catastrophe will kill us. (more...)
  Toronto Star, Toronto, December 26, 2008
• Renewable Richmond
  Do you know your carbon footprint? The author does, and he's not too happy about it. Sustainability means that we are meeting our present needs without jeopardizing the potential of future generations to meet their needs. For the rest of 2008, we will be in the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, drawing down our resource stocks, in essence, borrowing from the future. (more...)
  The Richmond, Richmond, VA, December 16, 2008
• How you can really clean up
  We think of hi-tech industries as being eco-friendly. But some are a great deal friendlier than others. It’s all a question of being aware of your ecological footprint... (more...)
  The Independent, London, December 08, 2008
• New Report details environmental degradation across Victoria, AUS
  Victoria is getting hotter and drier, is emitting more greenhouse gases and is rapidly losing its native species, a damning report reveals. And the state's ecological footprint - which measures human demand on the world's resources - is three times higher than the global average. (more...)
  Herald Sun, Victoria, AUS, December 04, 2008
• Call for environment bailout
  "Unlike the global financial crisis, no bailout can help if we run out of environmental resources simply because we cannot create another planet," said Dr Mathis Wackernagel, executive director of the Global Footprint Initiative, in an interview with Gulf News. (more...)
  Gulf News, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 29, 2008
• Too much for the Earth to bear
  The global financial crisis that has sent economies teetering from recession toward slump is preoccupying politicians and families worldwide, who see their livelihoods being snatched away by the consequences of the inventive greed of financial whiz kids. But a worse crisis lies waiting — involving the very future health and life of Earth. How long before human beings go the way of the dinosaurs? (more...)
  The Japan Times, Japan, November 26, 2008
• Using only our fair share of planet
  The Welsh Assembly Government’s new sustainable development consultation document, "One Wales: One Planet", has set the necessary but ambitious goal of “using only our fair share of the Earth’s resources”. The title of the document is taken from the Ecological Footprint research; this measures Welsh resource consumption as requiring the equivalent of 2.7 planets. If Wales is to live within the environmental capacity of the planet, it will need to reduce its resource consumption by around two-thirds from present levels. (more...)
  WalesOnline, Cardiff, Wales, November 25, 2008
• Want to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint? Think Food.
  As I adjusted, I thought there was at least one upside. My new lifestyle would be more benign for the planet. Surely, by not driving and by living in a much smaller space, I had significantly reduced my ecological footprint, a measurement of how much of the earth's resources each of the world's 6.6 billion people are using. (more...)
  Washington Post, Washington D.C., November 29, 2008
• Making Our Mark- Ecological Footprints
  Ecological footprints are being used to measure our impact on Earth and the results aren't good. We humans have been changing the face of our planet for thousands of years, clearing forests, damming rivers, draining swamps, ploughing the paddocks, building cities and freeways, creating the world we know. (more...)
  Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, December 08, 2008
• Why sustainability is still going strong
  In the wake of the deepening economic crisis, many commentators are warning of the demise of corporate sustainability, the practice of balancing profit with the social and environmental impact of doing business. Companies obsessed with their own short-term survival, they suggest, cannot possibly support long-term, “feel-good” initiatives to protect the environment or invest in community development... (more...)
  The Financial Times, London, February 12, 2009
• We are heading towards ecological credit crunch
  The world is heading for an ecological credit crunch, as human demands on the world’s natural resources reach nearly a third more than Earth can sustain... (more...)
  Merinews, New Delhi, India, January 30, 2009
• Earth 'On Course for Eco-Crunch'
  The planet is headed for an ecological "credit crunch", according to a report issued by conservation groups. The document contends that our demands on natural resources overreach what the Earth can sustain by almost a third. The Living Planet Report is the work of WWF, the Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network. (more...)
  BBC News, London, October 29, 2008
• World Threatened by Ecological 'Credit Crunch': WWF
  Reckless borrowing against Earth's exhausted bounty is driving the planet toward an ecological "credit crunch", the World Wildlife Fund warned on Wednesday. Growing demands on natural capital -- such as forests, water, soil, air and biodiversity -- already outstrip the world's capacity to renew these resources by a third, according to the WWF's Living Planet Report. (more...)
  AFP, Paris, October 28, 2008
• An Ecological Deficit
  Worldwide human activity so far this year has exhausted the resources the planet can renew, absorb or cleanse in a year, according to the California-based Global Footprint Network. The group said the mark was overshot by the second half of September through activities such as timber harvesting, fishing and carbon emission. (more...)
  Washington Post, Washington, D.C., October 02, 2008
• Just like Wall St., the Earth is overdrawn (two weeks ahead of '07)
  Just like AIG and a collection of Wall Street luminaries, we, as planetary citizens, are 140% overdrawn today. This means that if we measured all the resources that Mother Earth starts to produce on January 1st— such as oxygen, food, medicine, drinking water, forests, mineral ores, energy resources and acceptable climate,— well before Halloween is upon us, we are overdrawn, using more resources than have been generated. (more...)
  Marketplace from American Public Media, USA, September 23, 2008
• China using up natural resources fast: report
  China is drawing on natural resources such as farm land, timber and water twice as fast as they can be renewed in its drive for development, a report from Chinese and international environmentalists said. (more...)
  ABC News, USA, June 10, 2008
• Africa fast running down resources
  Many African countries are rapidly running down their natural resources as growing populations push the continent towards its ecological limits, the conservation organization WWF said on Monday. (more...)
  Reuters, Geneva, June 09, 2008
• In California, Building a Town With a Gentle Footprint
  An ecological footprint is a way of quantifying human impact on the earth. The originator of the concept, environmentalist Mathis Wackernagel, sees it as a way to help average people wrap their brains around an overwhelming amount of data. (more...)
  Washington Post, Washington, D.C., May 03, 2008
• IS LOCAL ALWAYS BETTER?
  From start to finish — from planting seeds to disposing scraps — the food sector accounts for roughly 25 percent of an American’s ecological footprint, according to Susan Burns, a managing director at the Global Footprint Network in Oakland, Calif. (more...)
  New York Times, New York, April 20, 2008
• On Language: Footprint
  “The word footprint has taken on meaning,” writes Michel Berger of Oakland, Calif., responding to a recent query in this space, “beyond that of simple circumstantial evidence that someone has walked by... (more...)
  New York Times, New York, February 17, 2008
• How to Save the Planet? It's the Economy, Stupid
  The ecological budget – on which all life, and consequently the human economy, depends – is already in dramatic deficit, and balancing it should be a high priority for nations around the world, even as the financial meltdown seizes headlines. (more...)
  The National, UAE, December 16, 2008
• World Watching for UAE Progress on Green Initiatives
  The world is watching how effective the United Arab Emirates will be in overcoming the challenge of having one of the worst ecological footprints, construction industry executives were told today (Monday 24 November 2008). (more...)
  Zawya, Dubai, November 24, 2008
• Calling All Teachers
  When it came to dreaming up an environmental project last year, Grade 4 teacher Megan Liddell didn't want to start yet another litterless lunch program. (more...)
  Calgary Herald, Calgary, November 21, 2008
• Humans Make Black Mark With Ecological Footprint
  Look at what we get from the natural systems around the world – supplying food, keeping the growing world working, reducing the effect of weather on our lives and even helping to keep us happy. (more...)
  Southern Reporter, Scotland, November 20, 2008
• Wales Pledge to Use Only Fair Share of Resources
  Wales today pledged to become a "one planet nation" and use only its fair share of the world's resources. (more...)
  News Wales, Wales, November 19, 2008
• Green Challenge Tougher Than Economic Crisis
  Environmentalists can draw lessons from the global financial crisis to deal with the looming ecological credit crunch, says Chief Emeka Anyoaku, the president of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International. (more...)
  The Sunday Independent, South Africa, November 16, 2008
• Got A Spare Earth Anywhere?
  If the world continues to pillage and plunder Earth's natural resources at the rate we are now, by 2030 we will need two planets to support us. If everyone on Earth consumed the equivalent resources of Canadians, it would take three Earths to meet the demand. (more...)
  Toronto Sun, Toronto, November 15, 2008
• Country Scores Poorly in Global Eco Report
  Based on energy consumption levels, the Czech Republic leaves behind the biggest “ecological footprint” in Central Europe, according to a new report. (more...)
  The Prague Post, Prague, November 12, 2008
• Southern Cities 'Are More Green'
  The Forum For The Future think-tank has rated British cities by air quality, green spaces and quality of life in order to judge the 20 most sustainable ones. (more...)
  The Telegraph, London, November 10, 2008
• Saving the Planet Through Regulations
  The WWF's Living Planet Report 2008 saw the UAE retain its top spot in the ecological footprint per capita table. Developers are certainly willing to talk of going green, but will the financial crisis see them less able? (more...)
  Arabian Business, UAE, November 08, 2008
• Czechs Rank Among World's Biggest Polluters
  A study published by the World Wildlife Fund ranks the Czech Republic 14th on a list of states whose consumption levels outstrip environmental renewal. (more...)
  Radio Praha, Prague, November 03, 2008
• WWF Study: Chile Has Small "Ecological Footprint"
  Chile is among the top five Latin American countries to have a favorable balance between the natural resources it consumes and the ones it produces, according to the 2008 Living Planet Report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). (more...)
  The Santiago Times, Santiago, November 04, 2008
• Global Footprint Network Reports: Africa, India, China
  Earlier this year, NNC attended a Global Footprint Network event at Swissnex to celebrate the completion of their recent Global Footprint Africa report. Since then, they have completed a global footprint report on China and, collaborating with the Confederation of Indian Industry, released a business perspective report on India’s Ecological Footprint. (more...)
  Next Now Collaboratory, California, November 01, 2008
• Two Planets For Greed
  As early as 1726, satirist Jonathan Swift had pointed to the pressure of meeting human demands on the environment in what is arguably his best work, Gulliver’s Travels. Nearly three centuries later, the problem has intensified. (more...)
  Mint, New Delhi, October 31, 2008
• Global Trade Contributes to Natural Resource Overdraft, Pollution
  Two new reports by environmental groups highlight the burden human consumption is putting on global natural resources and the pollution legacy left behind. Both reports stress that industrialised countries with high consumption levels directly draw on resources and pollute the environment in developing countries through their imports. (more...)
  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva, October 31, 2008
• Wales Warned Over "Ecological Credit Crunch"
  Welsh citizens have an ecological footprint three and a half times greater than their African counterparts, according to a new report. (more...)
  WalesOnline, Wales, October 30, 2008
• Clarion Call: Focus on Ecological Footprint
  Each person in the UAE requires an average of 9.5 global hectares (gha) to sustain current rates of consumption and carbon emissions, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Nature’s 2008 Living Planet Report said. (more...)
  XPress, Dubai, October 30, 2008
• Second Planet Needed By 2030, Says WWF
  While at first glance SA does not look like a major culprit, with an “ecological footprint” per citizen below the global average, that is largely because the country’s poor consume so little, said WWF SA CEO Morné du Plessis. (more...)
  Business Day, Cape Town, October 30, 2008
• Global Footprint Co-Publishes Living Planet Report 2008
  Skoll social entreprenuer Global Footprint Network has just co-published, along with the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, the Living Planet Report 2008 (PDF). (more...)
  Skoll Foundation, California, October 29, 2008
• Conservationists Warn of Ecological Credit Crunch
  The report is simple and stark. Our demands on natural resources overreach what the Earth can sustain by almost a third. (more...)
  Voice of America, London, October 29, 2008
• Another World
  It’s just as well that India has sent something to the moon, and that Mars is being scrutinized for water, for in little more than a couple of decades, human beings will need another earth, with all its resources, to sustain themselves. (more...)
  The Telegraph, Calcutta, October 30, 2008

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