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Footprint Featured in TIME Europe
Australian Media Publishes Victoria's Footprint
Best Foot Forward Awarded Queen's Praise
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Our mission is to promote a sustainable economy by advancing the Ecological
Footprint, a measurement tool that makes the reality of planetary limits
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Ecological Footprint in the News
Mainstream magazines, newspapers,
and prestigious national awards are drawing attention to the Ecological Footprint and
distinguishing it as one of the world's leading metrics of sustainability.
Ecological Footprint Featured in TIME Europe Magazine
The WEEE Man overlooking Tower Bridge, London
May 9th - Today's issue
of
TIME Europe magazine features a highly imaginative demonstration of an individual's Ecological
Footprint: "WEEE Man," created by
artist Paul Bonomini, is a seven-meter-tall mechanical skeleton made with the electronics waste
generated over the lifetime of the average Briton. Weighing three tonnes and consisting of 553 pieces,
the assemblage of computers, cellular phones, refrigerators and other household items is a
provocative educational display intended to inspire action on the part of individuals and
industry to reduce the European Union's Ecological Footprint on the eve of the WEEE Directive's
enactment.
Read the TIME Europe article
See WEEE Man
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Australian Media Publishes Victoria's Footprint
April 29th - Melbourne's newspaper, The Age, showcased the results of an Ecological Footprint
assessment of the state of Victoria completed by the University of Sydney's Integrated Lifecycle Assessment program in collaboration
with Global Footprint Network. The report, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Authority of the State of Victoria, indicates that the
average Victorian's Footprint is 5% larger than the average Australian's, largely because of greater
household energy consumption, vehicle-miles travelled and seafood eaten in the state. The study was
a joint effort combining the Footprint calculation methodologies developed by Manfred Lenzen at
the University of Sydney and Mathis Wackernagel, Executive Director of Global Footprint Network.
Click here to read the article
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Best Foot Forward Awarded Queen's Praise
April 21st - One of Global Footprint Network's sponsoring partners, Best Foot Forward, was granted one
of the UK's most prestigious honors, the 2005 Queen's Award for Enterprise in Sustainable
Development for outstanding contributions to sustainability and achievements in economic,
social, and environmental management. Recommended by the Prime Minister and confirmed by
Her Majesty, The Queen, the award also recognizes Best Foot Forward as a global leader
in Ecological Footprinting.
Click here to read more
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