OPEN: Oggi si festeggia la Giornata della Terra, ma tra un mese l’Italia avrà già finito tutte le risorse naturali del 2023
Il 22 aprile 1970, il giorno in cui si è celebrata la prima Giornata della Terra, di pianeta ce ne bastava uno solo. Oggi, a 53 anni di distanza, ne servirebbero quasi due per soddisfare i consumi della popolazione mondiale.... Read MoreSOCIAL JUSTICE MATTERS: Earth Overshoot Day with Dr. Alessandro Galli
Tomorrow, April 21st 2023, marks Ireland’s Country Overshoot Day. To explain what that means and Earth Overshoot Day, Dr. Alessandro Galli, Senior Scientist and Director of the Mediterranean-MENA Program with the Global Footprint Network chats with Susanne Rogers about how this date... Read MoreWEF: Special Address by António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
The World Economic Forum convened its 53rd Annual Meeting in January to reaffirm the value and imperative of dialogue and public-private cooperation, not only to navigate the current cascading crises but, more importantly, to drive tangible, system-positive change for the... Read MoreTHE ASAHI SHIMBUN: 8 billion people are straining our Earth to the breaking point
The world population surpassed 8 billion in November, according to an estimate by the United Nations. The evolution of human civilization has been the driving growth of the global population. Technological progress has led to increased food production and made... Read More朝日新聞: 人口８０億人 地球の限界を考える
世界の人口が昨年１１月に国連の推計で８０億人を超えた。 人間は文明の発達とともに養える人口を増やしてきた。技術が進歩して食糧を増産し、利用できる土地や資源も広がった。農業や産業革命といった大きな技術革新で急速に増えてきた。 今後、人間が必要とする物資を効率的に得る飛躍的な技術革新が起きたり、人口が減少して食糧やエネルギーを分かち合ったりして暮らしていけば、明るい未来を描けそうだ、といった楽観論もあるかもしれない。 半面、地球が生産できる生物資源も、利用できる地下資源も無限ではない。 Read MoreLA VANGUARDIA: Alessandro Galli, protagonista de la nueva Conferencia del ciclo Ciencia y SOS-tenibilidad
El ciclo de conferencias Ciencia y SOS-tenibilidad que inauguramos en 2020 ha permitido conocer algunos de los lideres en activismo medioambiental. Cada día somos más conscientes que como sociedad tenemos un gran reto por delante, y que la solución pasa... Read MoreONE PLANET PODCAST: Interview with Mathis Wackernagel
Mathis Wackernagel is Co-founder and President of Global Footprint Network. He created the Ecological Footprint with Professor William Rees at the University of British Columbia as part of his Ph.D. in community and regional planning. Mathis also earned a mechanical... Read MoreTAZ: Wir haben uns verrechnet
Kaum etwas hat unsere Vorstellung von der Klimakrise so geprägt wie der ökologische Fußabdruck. Wie kam die Idee in die Welt? Und sollten wir sie so schnell wie möglich wieder loswerden? Read More