Addressing overshoot with innovative initiatives May 13 marks Swiss Overshoot Day. This is the date by which humanity would have used as much as our planet’s ecosystems can regenerate in the entire year, if everyone consumed at the...
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Know a young Earth lover? It’s Earth Month and we’ve got just the thing to share with you! Author, illustrator, and designer of several critically acclaimed children’s books Carme Lemniscates just published Listen to the Earth, a book...
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Plus exciting news about the 2023 National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts, our recent work with Scotland and Wales, & your chance to win! Switzerland’s ecological resource security ranks 32nd out of 35 European countries By March 25th, Switzerland residents...
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When do you think Earth Overshoot Day will land? Earth Overshoot Day is the date when we have used more from nature than Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate this year. Can you guess the date for 2023? Enter our Guess-the-Date contest...
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Join us in celebrating the UN International Day of Education! Since the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference, education has been recognized as key in fostering environmental protection and has played a central role in easing the transition to a sustainable...
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Plus, exciting Food Platform news, moving Earth Overshoot Day with circular businesses, & why you don’t need to reduce your Footprint Ecological Footprinting for biodiversity health Many countries at the recent UN Biodiversity Conference COP 15 supported the call for...
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Highlighting a few of our many 2022 accomplishments and sharing something BIG to look forward to in 2023! Dear Friend, Relieved as we may have been to emerge from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, last year was still challenging...
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Steven Tebbe means business, our team in top 2% of cited scientists, feature in La Vanguardia, and the best year-end giving opportunity! New CEO Steven Tebbe means business Global Footprint Network’s board of directors welcomes Steven Tebbe as our new...
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Global Footprint Network presented at RE:WIRED Green Which businesses will be valuable in the predictable future of climate change and resource constraints? This question drove Mathis Wackernagel and David Lin’s “choose your own adventure” style session at the recent WIRED...
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DestiMED PLUS project results, Albanian ecotourism experience, new tourism encyclopedia, & Dr. Alessandro Galli is MEET Network board chair Footprint assessments for ecotourism destinations Envision traveling through Mediterranean protected areas while generating benefits for conservation and local communities. Imagine...
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