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SOCIAL 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 More
Listen to the Earth
The concept of Earth Overshoot Day is featured in author, illustrator, and designer of several critically acclaimed children’s books Carme Lemniscates’ latest book Listen to the Earth. Fun children’s activities based on the book, including a coloring page and puzzles, are... Read More
Escape from Overshoot
Prof. Peter Victor, our colleague from York University, has authored a book about the 21st century’s most debilitating disease: global overshoot. His book reveals the symptoms of persistent overshoot, delivers many options for addressing the problem, and assures us that... Read More
Swiss Deficit Day:
Switzerland is 32nd out of 35
By Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, Dr. Anita Frehner, Dr. Lucas Grob, Dr. Adrian Müller, Dr. David Lin Global Footprint Network, FiBL, & Swiss Food Research DEUTSCHE VERSION UNTEN This piece provides background to Swiss Deficit Day, or the day of the...
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HYBRID EVENT: Ecological overshoot: How the EU can push back against resource depletion
On 16 February 2023 in Brussels and online, the Sustainable Development Observatory (SDO) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will host a hybrid public event to assess the extent of the EU’s current ecological overshoot. It will look into proposals from organised... 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 More
Don't ask people to reduce their Footprint!
By Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., founder and President This blog is dedicated to a young, brilliant student. Back in 1995, she attended one of my lectures in Santiago de Chile about sustainability imperatives and the need “to reduce our Footprint.” I... Read More