Anyone with even a passing interest in the global environment knows all is not well. But just how bad is the situation? Our new paper shows the outlook for life on Earth is more dire than is generally understood. The...
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Einladung zur Onlineveranstaltung vom Kulturpark (Zürich) und Plant for the Planet Dienstag 19. Januar 2021, von 19:00-20:15 (zentraleuropäische Zeit) mit Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network Um was geht’s? «Decisions shape the future». Mit jeder Entscheidung bauen wir unsere Zukunft....
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I suoi abitanti vantano un alto tasso di benes-sere. Vivono in case ricoperte da legno di quercia isolante e coi pannelli fotovoltaici sui tetti. Le finestre hanno tripli vetri e gli appartamenti sono rinfrescati da convogliatori d’aria collegati a camini...
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Watch the event recording 27 January 2021, 10 am – 11:15 am CET Education is increasingly gaining a central role in easing the transition to a sustainable world. However, too few universities are properly equipped to teach sustainability in a...
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In a year seemingly filled with more darkness than light—global pandemic, fires, social injustices, hurricanes, to name a few—we’re highlighting “bright spots” that didn’t make mainstream. We want all to thrive and be prosperous on our one planet, so we’re...
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We sat down (virtually, of course) with David Lin, our Chief Science Officer and Eric Miller, Director, Ecological Footprint Initiative, York University in Toronto, to discuss the new 2021 edition of the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. First, can you...
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Portugal importa 73% dos alimentos e é o país mediterrânico com a maior pegada alimentar per capita, conclui um estudo da Universidade de Aveiro (UA), divulgado esta segunda-feira. “A alimentação pesa 30% na pegada ecológica dos portugueses, mais do que os transportes ou...
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Watch the event recording “One planet” is not a metaphor; it is a description. It is not a goal, but rather a recognition of our context. It acknowledges that there is a limited ecological budget our planet makes available. Human...
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I am proud to be a sack of ocean water walking on land. After all, life started to evolve in our planet’s oceans. Some life forms bagged up that water, added legs, and started to live on land. We, people,...
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“HUMAN BEINGS have overrun the world.” So laments Sir David Attenborough, a world-famous nonagenarian naturalist, in his new film, “David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet”. The film charts the “devastating changes” that humans have wrought on the planet’s biodiversity....
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