Mother Nature seems to be in full revolt. A stone’s throw from the city of Oakland, where Global Footprint Network is based, the seasonal Diablo winds recently reached record intensity, fanning the worst fires that the famous wine-producing region of Napa has...
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For every innovation, we need to include in our assessment some questions of the form: “What if this catches on?” Not merely the Dragons’ Den question of “Can this business scale?” – but the Global Footprint Network question of, “Can...
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Nos últimos 250 anos, o progresso humano tem ocorrido às custas do regresso ambiental e o enriquecimento da humanidade tem ocorrido em função do empobrecimento da biodiversidade. O impacto negativo sobre o meio ambiente é tanto maior quanto cresce o...
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This discovery about ecological footprints, for me, happened in my senior year of college when I enrolled in an introductory environmental science class. I loved it because most of our labs consisted of us taking field trips to different off-site...
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Households and governments who want to succeed track both expenditure and income. Businesses similarly keep a keen eye on their balance sheets. So what does the physical balance sheet of our biggest household – the Earth – look like? The...
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¿Cuánto tardaremos en destruir el planeta? ¿Sabe quién es Justin Bieber? ¡Qué remedio! Pues tiene 23 años y durante su corta vida, la humanidad ha quemado el 41% de todos los combustibles fósiles que ha consumido en su historia. Pues...
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La date est fatidique, et toujours plus précoce. Depuis mercredi 2 août, l’humanité vit à crédit : elle a consommé, en seulement sept mois, toutes les ressources que la Terre peut produire en une année. Jusqu’à la fin de 2017,...
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President Trump has acted on his campaign promises to reverse Obama’s environmental policies…The United States is one of the world’s biggest consumers, and U.S. policies can have global environmental effects. As of 2013, the world’s population would need 1.7 Earths...
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While many countries have made concerted efforts in recent years to reduce their carbon footprint in an attempt to slow global warming, most are still consuming far more than the earth can support and thereby creating an ecological footprint that...
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