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Highlights from the Footprint Explorer Launch Celebration
What are the barriers to sustainability for a city, an airport? What could Google Earth possibly still need in its quest to apply data to environmental challenges? What would you like a conversation on data and sustainability to sound like... Read More
Global Footprint Network Wins Science Magazine Data Stories Contest
Global Footprint Network won the corporate entity category for Science Magazine Data Stories Contest on May 4. Our 90-second video was created as part of the April launch of our new Ecological Footprint Explorer open data platform. The video was created by Alexandre Magnin... Read More
Ecological Footprint Explorer Open Data Platform Launches
OAKLAND, CA, April 5, 2017—Ecological Footprint data for over 200 countries is now freely available, searchable and usable at Ecological Footprint Explorer, the new open data platform that Global Footprint Network launches on April 5 at data.footprintnetwork.org. By offering researchers,... 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
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 More
New Report: Russia sees decline in ecological reserve since 2009
Russia is among a minority of countries with more natural resources than its population consumes. However, since 2009, that “ecological reserve” has declined 16 percent, indicating the start of a troubling trend. Those are among the findings of a new report,... Read More