Twenty years after its launch, the Happy Planet Index is heading into classrooms. Eric Barberà Mas of Hot or Cool explains why, and how the Ecological Footprint makes it possible. What if we judged a country’s success not by how...
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Three insights help shape winning strategies for the sustainability transition: 1. Overshoot defines the challenge 2. Regeneration defines the budget 3. Advantage defines the possible transition pathways Let us spell them out. 1. Overshoot defines the challenge Human demand on...
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Interview of Global Footprint Network co-founder Mathis Wackernagel by Silvia Tschui, NZZ Sustainable Switzerland Published July 29, 2026 (in German) Original in German: sustainableswitzerland.ch/artikel/ein-leerer-kuehlschank-macht-uns-mehr-angst-als-ein-voller-abfallkuebel-id.7129 Mr. Wackernagel, you say the biggest problem in the climate debate isn’t a lack of...
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Most policy discussions about sustainability focus on emission targets, biodiversity commitments, or climate finance. A new report from Global Footprint Network and Greenings, “Prepared for the Predictable? Overshoot and the Failure of Countries to Ready Themselves,” takes a different angle....
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Imagine trying to grade the economic strategies of forty different countries for how seriously they take resource security, using documents that range from five-year development plans to budget speeches to national security reviews, written in a dozen languages, by governments...
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Every well-run organization eventually asks itself an uncomfortable question: where are our blind spots? Smart companies run the exercise regularly, pulling people from finance, operations, legal, and the front line into one room to stress-test the strategy against risks nobody...
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Imagine a business that tracks its revenue obsessively, down to the penny, every quarter, every earnings call, every headline. But it never checks its warehouse. It has no idea how much inventory is left, how fast it’s being used, or...
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Earth Overshoot Day now falls nearly five months before year’s end, meaning a significant share of global economic activity depends on depleting our planet’s resources. This unsustainable pattern accelerates climate disruption and grows resource scarcity, creating serious risks for those...
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Ravens are edge species: versatile, intelligent. They are comfortable in distinct habitats, highly adaptable and rapid learners. They have the largest brain relative to body size of any bird. In many ways, they’re not unlike Peter, who himself is...
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As part of a portrait by Switzerland’s largest media group Tamedia, Mathis Wackernagel discussed in May 2026 how overshoot may affect countries and companies. Mathis makes the case why the narrative of holding ecological overshoot primarily as a resource security...
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