Post Archive
Huffington Post: How Will Coal Make America Great Again?
The Trump Administration says undoing the Clean Power Plan would help the economy and bring back coal jobs. But our latest data show Trump’s climate policies run counter to significant 21st-century gains the United States has made decoupling economic expansion... Read More
International Women's Day: Empowering women for a world that works for all
As an organization with a vision of a world that works for everyone and our planet, we believe that empowering women is one of the most important things we can do in service of global sustainability because it yields huge... Read More
Vancouver kicks off neighborhood Footprint campaign
This week, residents in three Vancouver neighborhoods start tracking their food consumption, waste patterns, and transportation habits for 14 days. They’ll repeat the same exercise one year from now. Their goal: reduce their Ecological Footprint by at least 15 percent... Read More
City Footprints: Data for Action
City-level Footprint assessments can be used to positively reinforce collective public achievements thus far. They can also help design sustainability policies to reach more ambitious goals going forward. Using a top-down approach that allow for shareable standards and useful comparability... Read More
Meet our new Development Manager
We would like to introduce you to the latest addition to our team: Judith (Judy) Sissener, our new Development Manager, who will coordinate all of our fundraising efforts. Judy manages fund development strategy and activities, including our relationships with foundations... Read More
Check out our new look!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our newly redesigned our website. We believe the new site, with its fresh, modern look, should be easier to navigate and better explains our work. Please check it out at www.footprintnetwork.org and... Read MoreImpakter: Are the Sustainable Development Goals Already in Trouble?
The SDG Index reveals that the Sustainable Development Goals are vastly underperforming on sustainability. This may undermine humanity’s progress in development. Read More
California has the same size Ecological Footprint as France. How do other states and countries compare?
Thanks to a Twitter prod from a friend, we created this map above comparing the Ecological Footprints of the US states with those of seven countries. (No, the Tweet was not from the most infamous Tweeter in the US today.... Read More