Podcasts about Global Footprint Network

O Presidente da Associação ZERO, Francisco Ferreira, explica o que está em causa depois de a "Global Footprint Network" indicar que Portugal está prestes a esgotar os recursos naturais para 2025.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ecological overshoot is the second largest risk to humanity. Not reacting to it is the biggest. Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the ecological footprint and co-founder of the Global Footprint Network, joins us. Highlights of the conversations include: How ecological footprint is calculated as a measure of how much of nature's regenerative capacity humanity is using; Why the estimate that we're using the natural regenerative capacity of 1.7 Earths is an underestimate of humanity's actual ecological overshoot; Why shrinking our ecological footprint needs to be framed as an opportunity for resource security, not just noble and charitable but absolutely necessary if humanity hopes to end overshoot more by design and less by disaster; Why international development schemes that emphasize GDP growth and not resource security won't work for the ¾ of humanity stuck in the ‘ecological poverty trap' of depleted resources and insufficient income to buy those resources from other countries;  Why countries not putting resource security at the center of their economic development plans is suicidal; Why peoples' motivation to end ecological overshoot will be driven by desire, agency, and curiosity - not by trying to command and control peoples' behavior.  See episode website for show notes, links, and transcript:  https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/mathis-wackernagel   OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance OVERSHOOT tackles today's interlocked social and ecological crises driven by humanity's excessive population and consumption. The podcast explores needed narrative, behavioral, and system shifts for recreating human life in balance with all life on Earth. With expert guests from wide-ranging disciplines, we examine the forces underlying overshoot: from patriarchal pronatalism that is fueling overpopulation, to growth-biased economic systems that lead to consumerism and social injustice, to the dominant worldview of human supremacy that subjugates animals and nature. Our vision of shrinking toward abundance inspires us to seek pathways of transformation that go beyond technological fixes toward a new humanity that honors our interconnectedness with all beings.  Hosted by Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware. Brought to you by Population Balance. Learn more at populationbalance.org 

Support Bionic Planet: https://www.patreon.com/bionicplanet  Guests: Jim Pittman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamespittman/) Matt Orsagh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-orsagh-a1b8417/) Steve Rocco (https://www.linkedin.com/in/steverocco/) Books Referenced: Ecological Economics (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77985.Ecological_Economics?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=ZDNVmbxl5B&rank=1) The Limits to Growth (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/705418.Limits_to_Growth?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=1uh5jgBt1O&rank=1) The Web of Life (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26155239-web-of-life) Thinking in Systems (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-systems?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Q81KDn3a1D&rank=1) Energy and Civilization (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31850765-energy-and-civilization?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=pCNkYwiE3S&rank=1) Sustainability is for Everyone (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19107270-sustainability-is-for-everyone?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=sX3sH8kdj5&rank=1) Less is More (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53328332-less-is-more?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_12) Donut Economics (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57410899-donut-economics?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15) Technical Revolutions in Financial Capital (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60509.Technological_Revolutions_and_Financial_Capital?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=TcwHjED9BR&rank=1) The End of Nature (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199359.The_End_of_Nature?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17) In Season 9, Episode 110 of Bionic Planet, titled "Ecological Economics, Systems Thinking, and the Limits to Growth," we delve into a thought-provoking discussion with ecological economists Jim Pittman, Matt Orsagh, and Steve Rocco. The episode explores the fundamental concepts of ecological economics, systems thinking, and the difference between overshoot and tipping points. The conversation begins with a reflection on the limitations of using GDP as a measure of a nation's health, as highlighted by economist Simon Kuznets, the inventor of GDP. The guests emphasize the importance of rethinking economic health and well-being, shifting from a focus on GDP growth to a more holistic approach that includes human and planetary health. The discussion then delves into the historical context of the environmental movement, referencing influential books like "The End of Nature" by Bill McKibben and "The Limits to Growth" published in 1972. The guests highlight the interconnectedness of human activities, climate change, biodiversity loss, and the urgent need to address these issues before reaching irreversible tipping points. The conversation also touches on the concept of degrowth, which proposes an equitable downscaling of production and consumption to enhance human well-being and ecological conditions. The guests emphasize the importance of transitioning from individual self-interest to collective optimization, drawing parallels with the behavior of slime molds in response to scarcity. The episode concludes with a call to action for reevaluating our current economic paradigm, shifting towards a more sustainable and equitable model that prioritizes health and well-being over GDP growth. The guests stress the urgency of addressing planetary boundaries, overshoot, and the impending tipping points that threaten the stability of our ecosystems. Overall, the episode provides a thought-provoking exploration of ecological economics, systems thinking, and the imperative need for transformative change to ensure a sustainable future for humanity and the planet. Timestamps Introduction to Ecological Economics and Systems Thinking Discussion on the Influence of Popular Books on Climate Change Awareness Evolution of Climate Change Discourse and Scientific Consensus Introduction to the Limits to Growth and Systems Modeling Discussion on the Flaws of GDP as an Indicator of Success Importance of Systems Thinking and Tipping Points Degrowth as a Response to Overshoot and Tipping Points Challenges and Opportunities in Transitioning to a Degrowth Paradigm The Role of Slime Molds in Understanding Resource Allocation The Urgency of Addressing Planetary Boundaries and Resource Scarcity The Need for Collective Action and Policy Changes in the Face of Environmental Challenges Reflections on the Evolution of Economic Thinking and the Path to Sustainable Development Quotes "Goals for more growth should specify of what and for what." - 00:00:23-00:00:34 "It's the difference between knowing that your two packs a day could very well give you cancer and hearing the doctor clear his throat and say, 'I've got something to tell you.'" - 00:01:06-00:01:17 "Degrowth is just the end result there. It's not like we want that. It's just like you need it because you've got to go on a diet." - 00:06:24-00:06:34 "We know that the enemy is carbon and we know it's ugly face. We should put a big fat price on it. And of course, add to that, drop the subsidies." - 00:07:16-00:07:26 "Earth Overshoot Day from the Global Footprint Network using the ecological footprint methodology." - 00:44:29-00:44:40 "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. And of course, it will stop. It's unsustainable." - 00:45:01-00:45:11 "We're using Earth as though we had 1.6 Earths to use. That's the consumption and the rate of resource use we're using." - 00:44:51-00:45:01 "Most of all, when proposing GDP as an indicator, Kuznets did not intend for it to be used in the way that we're using it now." - 00:46:21-00:46:32

E' oggi 1 agosto la data dell'Earth Overshoot Day 2024, il giorno del sovrasfruttamento della Terra. A calcolarlo ogni anno è Global Footprint Network e questa data indica come in soli 7 mesi l'umanità abbia già utilizzato ciò che la Terra impiega 12 mesi per rigenerare.

Olá, bio-ouvintes! Neste episódio falamos sobre o Dia Mundial da Sobrecarga da Terra, uma data que, mesmo simbólica, marca o momento a partir do qual a humanidade passa a consumir os recursos naturais numa quantidade que vai além daquela que o planeta consegue produzir ou regenerar. A data não cai sempre num dia específico do ano, depende de um cálculo estatístico produzido pela  Global Footprint Network, que mede a pegada ecológica da humanidade em relação à biocapacidade do planeta.  Ou seja, é o dia no ano em que deixamos de ser sustentáveis.  O conceito surgiu como tentativa de aumentar a conscientização sobre a sustentabilidade e os limites do nosso planeta.   CONTATOS cartinhas@biologiainsitu.com.br Instagram, Facebook e LinkedIn: @biologiainsitu Twitter e TikTok: @bioinsitu   APOIO Apoio recorrente na Orelo ou no Apoia.se Pix: cartinhas@biologiainsitu.com.br Também no PicPay!   CRÉDITOS Coordenação: Bruna Canellas, Cristianne Santos, Heloá Caramuru, Ricardo Gomes e Vitor Lopes. Pesquisa de pauta: Valtenisa Andrade. Revisão científica: Gabriela Vergara. Roteirização: Ana Victória. Revisão textual: Sueli Rodrigues. Locução: Raissa Bella e Ricardo Gomes. Edição e mixagem de áudio: Felipe Castro. Arte de capa: Larissa Castro.   CITAÇÃO DO EPISÓDIO (ABNT) Biologia In Situ 155 - Dia mundial da sobrecarga da Terra. Coordenação: Bruna Garcia da Cruz Canellas, Cristianne Santana Santos, Heloá Caramuru Carlos, Ricardo da Silva Gomes e Vitor Estanislau de Almeida Souza Lopes. Pesquisa de pauta: Valtenisa de Andrade Lima. Revisão científica: Gabriela Lucia da Silva Vergara. Roteirização: Ana Victória de Sousa Bezerra. Revisão textual: Sueli Aparecida Rodrigues. Locução: Raissa Bella da Silva e Ricardo da Silva Gomes. Edição e mixagem de áudio: Felipe Gonçalves de Castro. Arte de capa: Larissa Araguaia Monteiro de Castro. [S. l.] Canal Biologia In Situ, 04 de julho de 2024. Podcast. Disponível em: https://biologiainsitu.com.br/155-dia-mundial-da-sobrecarga-da-terra/.

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For most people, wallets are a staple accessory of their everyday lives. Yet today, the analog wallet is disappearing, to be replaced, like so many other things, by its digital twin. Digital wallets are now a reality and, like their physical predecessors, they will become an intrinsic part of our lives, so making sure they are built the right way is critical. To discuss the future of digital wallets, Eyal turns to Daniel Goldscheider, Founder of the OpenWallet Foundation, an organization dedicated to enabling a trusted digital future through interoperability for a wide range of use cases that leverage the software construct known as a digital wallet. Before founding the OpenWallet Foundation, Daniel was CEO of yes.com, a digital banking platform, and co-founded Mediaguide with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers alongside Aureus Private Equity. He has served on the boards of the Global Footprint Network and Identity Trust Management, demonstrating his deep history building systems that aim to enshrine data rights.Specifically they discuss: The benefits of digital walletsWhat is driving the proliferation of digital walletsDigital wallets versus authenticator appsThe technology behind digital walletsThe relationship between digital wallets and open banking

Het is vandaag Earth Overshoot Day: de dag waarop we – geteld vanaf 1 januari - alle natuurlijke hulpbronnen die onze aarde in een jaar kan produceren hebben opgebruikt. Wat moeten we doen om daar een stokje voor te steken? * Jesse Frederik, journalist bij de Correspondent * Joost Brinkman, vertegenwoordiger Global Footprint Network 

Una misura calcolata annualmente dalla Global Footprint Network che indica il giorno in cui la domanda dell'umanità per le risorse naturali e l'assorbimento dei rifiuti supera la capacità che la Terra ha di rigenerare tali risorse e assorbire i rifiuti in un dato anno

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 is worked out, Ireland's country date and some of their policy proposals to help ensure we #movethedate.   Find your country's Overshoot Day HERE.  Calculate your Footprint HERE.  Links to Educational Resources mentioned HERE and HERE.   More information on next steps and solutions HERE.  Find the Human Development Index graph Alessandro mentioned HERE and HERE 

SUMMARYIn this episode of The Carbon Connection, Valerie Lucchesi speaks with Mathis Wackernagel, founder of the Global Footprint Network, a network dedicated to conversation and actions leading to the thoughtful management of natural resources. The network established Earth Overshoot Day. This day signals the day of a year that "humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year." Learn more about this estimated date and the methodology used on the Earth Overshoot Day website.In this conversation, Lucchesi and Wackernagel discuss what "overshoot" looks like in Switzerland.LINKS5th Switzerland podcastGlobal Footprint NetworkEarth Overshoot DayThe Carbon AlmanacCONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Valerie Lucchesi, 5th SwitzerlandProduction Team: Lucia Speranza, Steve HeatheringtonSenior Producer: Tania MarienSupervising Producer: Jennifer Myers ChuaMusic: Cool Carbon Instrumental, Paul Russell, MusicbedEpisode Art: Jennifer Myers ChuaNetwork Voiceover: Olabanji Stephen

Le réseau Global Footprint Network a lancé un nouveau calculateur d'empreinte écologique qui permet aux particuliers et aux entreprises de mesurer leur impact environnemental. Gratuit et disponible en ligne (le lien est dans la description de cet épisode), ce calculateur est basé sur les données les plus récentes et les plus fiables à propos des gaz à effets de serre et à l'utilisation des ressources naturelles.Selon le réseau Global Footprint Network, comprendre son empreinte écologique, c'est comprendre comment les humains utilisent les ressources naturelles et comment cela affecte l'environnement. Ainsi, si vous connaissez l'impact de vos choix sur le monde, alors vous pourrez plus facilement comprendre que, multiplié par plus de 7 milliards de personnes, les conséquences peuvent être lourdes pour l'environnement. Voilà grossièrement résumé l'intérêt de ce calculateur, qui concrètement, permet aux utilisateurs de mesurer leur impact en matière d'énergie, de nourriture, d'habitat, de mobilité et d'autres domaines clés. Évidemment, l'idée n'est pas de culpabiliser qui que ce soit, mais de tendre vers une prise de conscience comme quoi l'abondance, c'est fini, pour paraphraser notre président, et surtout d'aider à réduire notre impact grâce à des conseils pour changer nos habitudes.Vous vous en doutez, les résultats proposés par l'outil montrent qu'un particulier comme une entreprise peut avoir un impact important sur l'environnement, mais, que des changements simples dans les habitudes de consommation peuvent également réduire cet impact de manière significative. Les utilisateurs peuvent également comparer leur empreinte écologique à celle d'autres pays ou régions, ce qui permet de mieux comprendre les tendances mondiales. De son côté, le réseau Global Footprint Network espère que son calculateur d'empreinte écologique aidera le plus grand nombre à prendre conscience de leur impact personnel et à adopter des pratiques plus durables, tout en soulignant que ces changements d'attitude devront impérativement être soutenu par des politiques et réglementations spécifiques pour être réellement efficace.Calculateur : https://www.footprintcalculator.org/sponsor/FR/fr Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Le réseau Global Footprint Network a lancé un nouveau calculateur d'empreinte écologique qui permet aux particuliers et aux entreprises de mesurer leur impact environnemental. Gratuit et disponible en ligne (le lien est dans la description de cet épisode), ce calculateur est basé sur les données les plus récentes et les plus fiables à propos des gaz à effets de serre et à l'utilisation des ressources naturelles. Selon le réseau Global Footprint Network, comprendre son empreinte écologique, c'est comprendre comment les humains utilisent les ressources naturelles et comment cela affecte l'environnement. Ainsi, si vous connaissez l'impact de vos choix sur le monde, alors vous pourrez plus facilement comprendre que, multiplié par plus de 7 milliards de personnes, les conséquences peuvent être lourdes pour l'environnement. Voilà grossièrement résumé l'intérêt de ce calculateur, qui concrètement, permet aux utilisateurs de mesurer leur impact en matière d'énergie, de nourriture, d'habitat, de mobilité et d'autres domaines clés. Évidemment, l'idée n'est pas de culpabiliser qui que ce soit, mais de tendre vers une prise de conscience comme quoi l'abondance, c'est fini, pour paraphraser notre président, et surtout d'aider à réduire notre impact grâce à des conseils pour changer nos habitudes. Vous vous en doutez, les résultats proposés par l'outil montrent qu'un particulier comme une entreprise peut avoir un impact important sur l'environnement, mais, que des changements simples dans les habitudes de consommation peuvent également réduire cet impact de manière significative. Les utilisateurs peuvent également comparer leur empreinte écologique à celle d'autres pays ou régions, ce qui permet de mieux comprendre les tendances mondiales. De son côté, le réseau Global Footprint Network espère que son calculateur d'empreinte écologique aidera le plus grand nombre à prendre conscience de leur impact personnel et à adopter des pratiques plus durables, tout en soulignant que ces changements d'attitude devront impérativement être soutenu par des politiques et réglementations spécifiques pour être réellement efficace. Calculateur : https://www.footprintcalculator.org/sponsor/FR/fr Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Actually, awareness doesn't help. We are on the campaign to produce a desire for that transformation. Information is useless unless it's empowering. And of course, it has to be factual. If it's not factual, then it's going to be found out, and it also has to be relevant because otherwise, it's irrelevant. But if it's just relevant, it actually may just be counterproductive because if people see it as relevant but not empowering, they will use their brain to fight it. So that's why I think awareness campaigns don't work. We can only work on motivation, helping people to find a greater desire to get there, to say, yeah, that's what I want. A sense of agency that they say I can do something about it. Also, a sense of curiosity because we really don't know how to get there eventually.So, it takes a bit more than just awareness and that's what we learned a bit painfully, obviously, over the last 30 years or painfully because in the beginning we just thought, Oh, why don't people just measure how many planets we have compared to how many we use? And once they see the number, it would be very obvious to them. So we were the first to start to - and still are I think - the main accounting approach to compare directly how big human activities are compared to what the planet can renew.”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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."Actually, awareness doesn't help. We are on the campaign to produce a desire for that transformation. Information is useless unless it's empowering. And of course, it has to be factual. If it's not factual, then it's going to be found out, and it also has to be relevant because otherwise, it's irrelevant. But if it's just relevant, it actually may just be counterproductive because if people see it as relevant but not empowering, they will use their brain to fight it. So that's why I think awareness campaigns don't work. We can only work on motivation, helping people to find a greater desire to get there, to say, yeah, that's what I want. A sense of agency that they say I can do something about it. Also, a sense of curiosity because we really don't know how to get there eventually.So, it takes a bit more than just awareness and that's what we learned a bit painfully, obviously, over the last 30 years or painfully because in the beginning we just thought, Oh, why don't people just measure how many planets we have compared to how many we use? And once they see the number, it would be very obvious to them. So we were the first to start to - and still are I think - the main accounting approach to compare directly how big human activities are compared to what the planet can renew.”www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"Actually, awareness doesn't help. We are on the campaign to produce a desire for that transformation. Information is useless unless it's empowering. And of course, it has to be factual. If it's not factual, then it's going to be found out, and it also has to be relevant because otherwise, it's irrelevant. But if it's just relevant, it actually may just be counterproductive because if people see it as relevant but not empowering, they will use their brain to fight it. So that's why I think awareness campaigns don't work. We can only work on motivation, helping people to find a greater desire to get there, to say, yeah, that's what I want. A sense of agency that they say I can do something about it. Also, a sense of curiosity because we really don't know how to get there eventually.So, it takes a bit more than just awareness and that's what we learned a bit painfully, obviously, over the last 30 years or painfully because in the beginning we just thought, Oh, why don't people just measure how many planets we have compared to how many we use? And once they see the number, it would be very obvious to them. So we were the first to start to - and still are I think - the main accounting approach to compare directly how big human activities are compared to what the planet can renew.”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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."Actually, awareness doesn't help. We are on the campaign to produce a desire for that transformation. Information is useless unless it's empowering. And of course, it has to be factual. If it's not factual, then it's going to be found out, and it also has to be relevant because otherwise, it's irrelevant. But if it's just relevant, it actually may just be counterproductive because if people see it as relevant but not empowering, they will use their brain to fight it. So that's why I think awareness campaigns don't work. We can only work on motivation, helping people to find a greater desire to get there, to say, yeah, that's what I want. A sense of agency that they say I can do something about it. Also, a sense of curiosity because we really don't know how to get there eventually.So, it takes a bit more than just awareness and that's what we learned a bit painfully, obviously, over the last 30 years or painfully because in the beginning we just thought, Oh, why don't people just measure how many planets we have compared to how many we use? And once they see the number, it would be very obvious to them. So we were the first to start to - and still are I think - the main accounting approach to compare directly how big human activities are compared to what the planet can renew.”www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"So by looking at the effect of Earth Overshoot, which we think is the second largest risk for humanity, it actually becomes easier to address because all things come together, and you start to see the self-interest to act. Because if you're in a world of overshoot, and you're not able to be resource-secured, really it's going to hurt you. So it's not just being nice to the rest of the world. I mean, that too, but primarily, it also becomes really essential. If you're not ready for that world, it's going to be very difficult for you. So by bringing this story out, make it resonant, people then also come to us, companies approach us and say, “Let's work with each other.” And it may not be that important how big they are, because we are impressed by stories to a large extent, so the more we can show examples where people build their own success by thinking about the world from that perspective, that's probably convincing others in some ways. So it's very hard to work effectively with institutions who deeply believe that the information is inconvenient because they come up with excuses and you try to overcome the excuses. And by the time you've overcome these excuses, they have invented seven other excuses. Like the hydra, chop off the head, and seven more heads grow. So I think that's really the big tragedy we find. And I think it actually would be so simple if we had a better narrative. We're so in love with the narrative of pointing fingers that we don't see the obvious.So it's like we are on a boat, and we see a big storm approach. And we realize our boat is not too seaworthy. And then the first thing we do is we go to an international Boat Owners Conference to find out who needs to fix their boat first. Doesn't make that much sense to me, you know?And then we complexify the story rather than saying, 'Actually I am exposed.' And so when you say, 'Oh, the poor Maldives,' we take ourselves out of the game. 'It's about these others'. It's actually about each one of us in some ways.”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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."So by looking at the effect of Earth Overshoot, which we think is the second largest risk for humanity, it actually becomes easier to address because all things come together, and you start to see the self-interest to act. Because if you're in a world of overshoot, and you're not able to be resource-secured, really it's going to hurt you. So it's not just being nice to the rest of the world. I mean, that too, but primarily, it also becomes really essential. If you're not ready for that world, it's going to be very difficult for you. So by bringing this story out, make it resonant, people then also come to us, companies approach us and say, “Let's work with each other.” And it may not be that important how big they are, because we are impressed by stories to a large extent, so the more we can show examples where people build their own success by thinking about the world from that perspective, that's probably convincing others in some ways. So it's very hard to work effectively with institutions who deeply believe that the information is inconvenient because they come up with excuses and you try to overcome the excuses. And by the time you've overcome these excuses, they have invented seven other excuses. Like the hydra, chop off the head, and seven more heads grow. So I think that's really the big tragedy we find. And I think it actually would be so simple if we had a better narrative. We're so in love with the narrative of pointing fingers that we don't see the obvious.So it's like we are on a boat, and we see a big storm approach. And we realize our boat is not too seaworthy. And then the first thing we do is we go to an international Boat Owners Conference to find out who needs to fix their boat first. Doesn't make that much sense to me, you know?And then we complexify the story rather than saying, 'Actually I am exposed.' And so when you say, 'Oh, the poor Maldives,' we take ourselves out of the game. 'It's about these others'. It's actually about each one of us in some ways.”www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."As a minimal condition to be able to persist, we cannot use forever more than what we get back from nature, what nature can renew. It's a very mechanical view, but we are not even fulfilling this mechanical, bottom-line requirement. Ecologists will tell you that to maintain biodiversity because wild species are in competition for that regeneration, maybe it's not a good idea to use the entire capacity of the planet.So shooting for one planet just means you would be totally dominant, and leave no space for other species. Ecologists say to maintain 85% of preindustrial biodiversity, it would take about at least half the planet left on its own. That would mean getting to half-planet. And now we use at least 1.75. I say at least because our assessments with about 15,000 data points per country in year are based on UN statistics, and their demand side is probably an underestimate because not all demands are included. And also on the supply side or the regeneration side, the UN is very production oriented, so it's the FAO numbers, for example, look at agricultural production, and the depletion side or the destruction side is not factored in adequately."www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"As a minimal condition to be able to persist, we cannot use forever more than what we get back from nature, what nature can renew. It's a very mechanical view, but we are not even fulfilling this mechanical, bottom-line requirement. Ecologists will tell you that to maintain biodiversity because wild species are in competition for that regeneration, maybe it's not a good idea to use the entire capacity of the planet.So shooting for one planet just means you would be totally dominant, and leave no space for other species. Ecologists say to maintain 85% of preindustrial biodiversity, it would take about at least half the planet left on its own. That would mean getting to half-planet. And now we use at least 1.75. I say at least because our assessments with about 15,000 data points per country in year are based on UN statistics, and their demand side is probably an underestimate because not all demands are included. And also on the supply side or the regeneration side, the UN is very production oriented, so it's the FAO numbers, for example, look at agricultural production, and the depletion side or the destruction side is not factored in adequately."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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."If you can live with fewer resources, then you feel more safe. So we are talking more about resource security rather than reducing your demand, which is the same thing, but it comes with a twist. If we talk about you've got to reduce your demand, it generates resentment in society because if I put an effort into showering less or with cold water or not going somewhere, and I see my neighbor still doing it, I feel resentful about that neighbor. So it generates resentment in society. It's because you think I gave myself up for humanity and you didn't. Then it's unfair, you know? But if you think from a perspective of resource security, and you learn how to live not by depending on that many resources, you feel safe for yourself.And if your neighbor is not able to do it and still depends on all of the resources, you can feel empathy for the neighbor. Oh my god, my neighbor is really exposed. And so it's so by empathy, it's kind of a more stable mechanism. So I think we have to find ways to build empathy for saying, Wow, it's really about preparing ourselves.Like with COVID, if you protect yourself, that's good for society as well. And so that's kind of a win-win that we want to develop. Big shifts are needed if you want to be able to operate in the future. So it is very serious. I think in the end, only things we want to do will happen. So I think the best thing to get on that track is to. In our own speech, ban the word should because as soon as we say should, we indicate it's not going to happen, and we lose agency."www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"If you can live with fewer resources, then you feel more safe. So we are talking more about resource security rather than reducing your demand, which is the same thing, but it comes with a twist. If we talk about you've got to reduce your demand, it generates resentment in society because if I put an effort into showering less or with cold water or not going somewhere, and I see my neighbor still doing it, I feel resentful about that neighbor. So it generates resentment in society. It's because you think I gave myself up for humanity and you didn't. Then it's unfair, you know? But if you think from a perspective of resource security, and you learn how to live not by depending on that many resources, you feel safe for yourself.And if your neighbor is not able to do it and still depends on all of the resources, you can feel empathy for the neighbor. Oh my god, my neighbor is really exposed. And so it's so by empathy, it's kind of a more stable mechanism. So I think we have to find ways to build empathy for saying, Wow, it's really about preparing ourselves.Like with COVID, if you protect yourself, that's good for society as well. And so that's kind of a win-win that we want to develop. Big shifts are needed if you want to be able to operate in the future. So it is very serious. I think in the end, only things we want to do will happen. So I think the best thing to get on that track is to. In our own speech, ban the word should because as soon as we say should, we indicate it's not going to happen, and we lose agency."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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."In my way of talking, I try to move away from the word responsibility because people don't come to me and say, 'Thank you so much for giving me responsibility,' rather they avoid me at parties and so, how do we talk about it? So I like more the metaphor of brushing your teeth. Brushing your teeth is not so much an imposition. You must brush your teeth, otherwise, you're a really bad person, you know? No, you just brush your teeth because you want to have healthy teeth. It's not a capitalist plot either. They say, Oh, you're such a capitalist, protecting the capital in your jaw. No, we want to have healthy teeth. So it is just protecting your teeth is necessary. Make an effort today to protect the health of your tooth tomorrow. And that's kind of a similar approach. So the same principles that apply to a country or a city also apply to an individual. I mean, an individual could be an investor or can have a pension fund. And so the question is my investment going to be more valued in the future or not? Probably it's more likely to be valuable if it is aligned with what the future will look like. Or you're making decisions about where to live. Like if you make yourself dependent on cars, then every time gasoline prices go up, then you get more exposed.If you can live with fewer resources, then you feel more safe. So we are talking more about resource security rather than reducing your demand, which is the same thing, but it comes with a twist. Big shifts are needed if you want to be able to operate in the future. So it is very serious. I think in the end, only things we want to do will happen. So I think the best thing to get on that track is to, in our own speech, ban the word should because as soon as we say should, we indicate it's not going to happen, and we lose agency.”www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"In my way of talking, I try to move away from the word responsibility because people don't come to me and say, 'Thank you so much for giving me responsibility,' rather they avoid me at parties and so, how do we talk about it? So I like more the metaphor of brushing your teeth. Brushing your teeth is not so much an imposition. You must brush your teeth, otherwise, you're a really bad person, you know? No, you just brush your teeth because you want to have healthy teeth. It's not a capitalist plot either. They say, Oh, you're such a capitalist, protecting the capital in your jaw. No, we want to have healthy teeth. So it is just protecting your teeth is necessary. Make an effort today to protect the health of your tooth tomorrow. And that's kind of a similar approach. So the same principles that apply to a country or a city also apply to an individual. I mean, an individual could be an investor or can have a pension fund. And so the question is my investment going to be more valued in the future or not? Probably it's more likely to be valuable if it is aligned with what the future will look like. Or you're making decisions about where to live. Like if you make yourself dependent on cars, then every time gasoline prices go up, then you get more exposed.If you can live with fewer resources, then you feel more safe. So we are talking more about resource security rather than reducing your demand, which is the same thing, but it comes with a twist. Big shifts are needed if you want to be able to operate in the future. So it is very serious. I think in the end, only things we want to do will happen. So I think the best thing to get on that track is to, in our own speech, ban the word should because as soon as we say should, we indicate it's not going to happen, and we lose agency.”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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"So by looking at the effect of Earth Overshoot, which we think is the second largest risk for humanity, it actually becomes easier to address because all things come together, and you start to see the self-interest to act. Because if you're in a world of overshoot, and you're not able to be resource-secured, really it's going to hurt you. So it's not just being nice to the rest of the world. I mean, that too, but primarily, it also becomes really essential. If you're not ready for that world, it's going to be very difficult for you. So by bringing this story out, make it resonant, people then also come to us, companies approach us and say, “Let's work with each other.” And it may not be that important how big they are, because we are impressed by stories to a large extent, so the more we can show examples where people build their own success by thinking about the world from that perspective, that's probably convincing others in some ways. So it's very hard to work effectively with institutions who deeply believe that the information is inconvenient because they come up with excuses and you try to overcome the excuses. And by the time you've overcome these excuses, they have invented seven other excuses. Like the hydra, chop off the head, and seven more heads grow. So I think that's really the big tragedy we find. And I think it actually would be so simple if we had a better narrative. We're so in love with the narrative of pointing fingers that we don't see the obvious.So it's like we are on a boat, and we see a big storm approach. And we realize our boat is not too seaworthy. And then the first thing we do is we go to an international Boat Owners Conference to find out who needs to fix their boat first. Doesn't make that much sense to me, you know?And then we complexify the story rather than saying, 'Actually I am exposed.' And so when you say, 'Oh, the poor Maldives,' we take ourselves out of the game. 'It's about these others'. It's actually about each one of us in some ways.”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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."So by looking at the effect of Earth Overshoot, which we think is the second largest risk for humanity, it actually becomes easier to address because all things come together, and you start to see the self-interest to act. Because if you're in a world of overshoot, and you're not able to be resource-secured, really it's going to hurt you. So it's not just being nice to the rest of the world. I mean, that too, but primarily, it also becomes really essential. If you're not ready for that world, it's going to be very difficult for you. So by bringing this story out, make it resonant, people then also come to us, companies approach us and say, “Let's work with each other.” And it may not be that important how big they are, because we are impressed by stories to a large extent, so the more we can show examples where people build their own success by thinking about the world from that perspective, that's probably convincing others in some ways. So it's very hard to work effectively with institutions who deeply believe that the information is inconvenient because they come up with excuses and you try to overcome the excuses. And by the time you've overcome these excuses, they have invented seven other excuses. Like the hydra, chop off the head, and seven more heads grow. So I think that's really the big tragedy we find. And I think it actually would be so simple if we had a better narrative. We're so in love with the narrative of pointing fingers that we don't see the obvious.So it's like we are on a boat, and we see a big storm approach. And we realize our boat is not too seaworthy. And then the first thing we do is we go to an international Boat Owners Conference to find out who needs to fix their boat first. Doesn't make that much sense to me, you know?And then we complexify the story rather than saying, 'Actually I am exposed.' And so when you say, 'Oh, the poor Maldives,' we take ourselves out of the game. 'It's about these others'. It's actually about each one of us in some ways.”www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"Actually, awareness doesn't help. We are on the campaign to produce a desire for that transformation. Information is useless unless it's empowering. And of course, it has to be factual. If it's not factual, then it's going to be found out, and it also has to be relevant because otherwise, it's irrelevant. But if it's just relevant, it actually may just be counterproductive because if people see it as relevant but not empowering, they will use their brain to fight it. So that's why I think awareness campaigns don't work. We can only work on motivation, helping people to find a greater desire to get there, to say, yeah, that's what I want. A sense of agency that they say I can do something about it. Also, a sense of curiosity because we really don't know how to get there eventually.So, it takes a bit more than just awareness and that's what we learned a bit painfully, obviously, over the last 30 years or painfully because in the beginning we just thought, Oh, why don't people just measure how many planets we have compared to how many we use? And once they see the number, it would be very obvious to them. So we were the first to start to - and still are I think - the main accounting approach to compare directly how big human activities are compared to what the planet can renew.”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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"So shooting for one planet just means you would be totally dominant, and leave no space for other species. Ecologists say to maintain 85% of preindustrial biodiversity, it would take about at least half the planet left on its own. That would mean getting to half-planet. And now we use at least 1.75. I say at least because our assessments with about 15,000 data points per country in a year are based on UN statistics, and their demand side is probably an underestimate because not all demands are included. And also on the supply side or the regeneration side, the UN is very production oriented, so it's the FAO numbers, for example, look at agricultural production, and the depletion side or the destruction side is not factored in adequately.So that's why it's an underestimate. And still, it shows we use about 1.75 Earths, and that's more than three times half an Earth. So that's kind of the difference. But we also know overshoot will end one way or another. The question is do we choose to end it? Do we choose it by design, or do we let nature take the lead and end overshoot by disaster? So it's really ending overshoot by design or disaster. That's the big choice we need to make.”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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."So shooting for one planet just means you would be totally dominant, and leave no space for other species. Ecologists say to maintain 85% of preindustrial biodiversity, it would take about at least half the planet left on its own. That would mean getting to half-planet. And now we use at least 1.75. I say at least because our assessments with about 15,000 data points per country in a year are based on UN statistics, and their demand side is probably an underestimate because not all demands are included. And also on the supply side or the regeneration side, the UN is very production oriented, so it's the FAO numbers, for example, look at agricultural production, and the depletion side or the destruction side is not factored in adequately.So that's why it's an underestimate. And still, it shows we use about 1.75 Earths, and that's more than three times half an Earth. So that's kind of the difference. But we also know overshoot will end one way or another. The question is do we choose to end it? Do we choose it by design, or do we let nature take the lead and end overshoot by disaster? So it's really ending overshoot by design or disaster. That's the big choice we need to make.”www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

"As a minimal condition to be able to persist, we cannot use forever more than what we get back from nature, what nature can renew. It's a very mechanical view, but we are not even fulfilling this mechanical, bottom-line requirement. Ecologists will tell you that to maintain biodiversity because wild species are in competition for that regeneration, maybe it's not a good idea to use the entire capacity of the planet.So shooting for one planet just means you would be totally dominant, and leave no space for other species. Ecologists say to maintain 85% of preindustrial biodiversity, it would take about at least half the planet left on its own. That would mean getting to half-planet. And now we use at least 1.75. I say at least because our assessments with about 15,000 data points per country in year are based on UN statistics, and their demand side is probably an underestimate because not all demands are included. And also on the supply side or the regeneration side, the UN is very production oriented, so it's the FAO numbers, for example, look at agricultural production, and the depletion side or the destruction side is not factored in adequately."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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures.www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

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 engineering degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than 100 universities. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability that focus on embracing resource limits and developing metrics for sustainability. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, being a 2014 ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductee, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, 2012 Blue Planet Prize, 2012 Binding Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment (jointly awarded with UNEP). He was also selected as number 19 on the en(rich) list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures."As a minimal condition to be able to persist, we cannot use forever more than what we get back from nature, what nature can renew. It's a very mechanical view, but we are not even fulfilling this mechanical, bottom-line requirement. Ecologists will tell you that to maintain biodiversity because wild species are in competition for that regeneration, maybe it's not a good idea to use the entire capacity of the planet.So shooting for one planet just means you would be totally dominant, and leave no space for other species. Ecologists say to maintain 85% of preindustrial biodiversity, it would take about at least half the planet left on its own. That would mean getting to half-planet. And now we use at least 1.75. I say at least because our assessments with about 15,000 data points per country in year are based on UN statistics, and their demand side is probably an underestimate because not all demands are included. And also on the supply side or the regeneration side, the UN is very production oriented, so it's the FAO numbers, for example, look at agricultural production, and the depletion side or the destruction side is not factored in adequately."www.footprintnetwork.orgwww.footprintnetwork.org/toolswww.overshootday.org/power-of-possibility/www.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast

While Elon Musk erroneously claims population collapse is our biggest worry, world population is hitting 8 billion, adding the latest billion faster than any time in history. The UN has declared world population will surpass 8 billion on November 15, 2022. We persist in adding about 80 million people to the planet every year, despite overwhelming evidence we've outgrown our planet. Christopher Tucker, author of A Planet of 3 Billion: Mapping Humanity's Long History of Ecological Destruction and Finding Our Way to a Resilient Future, joins Dave in a conversation intended to help cure the rampant overshoot illiteracy resulting from misguided silence on the subject. This illiteracy is demonstrated as Dave shares his new YouTube video (link below) about the 8 billion milestone. Tucker shares his disappointment in United Nations messaging around World Population Day (July 11) and the 8 billion milestone, and Dave turns his criticism up to eleven. He makes this important point about the silence on overshoot and overpopulation: If responsible people don't talk about these issues, irresponsible people will – and they'll spread disinformation and perpetuate the negative attitudes we want to avoid. The conversation also turns to coercive pronatalism, a topic that may be new to some listeners. It's surprisingly pervasive.  LINKS: 8 Billion is Too Many: Don't be a Twit About Overpopulation - by Dave Gardner on Medium(we'll post this link here later today)  World Population Hits 8 Billion: What Do People on the Street Think? - new YouTube video by Dave Gardnerhttps://youtu.be/ncT-J5BsVuc New Rule: Let the Population Collapse - Bill Maherhttps://youtu.be/HB97iwcm_Qc A Planet of 3 Billion: Mapping Humanity's Long History of Ecological Destruction and Finding Our Way to a Resilient Future - by Christopher Tuckerhttp://planet3billion.com/index.html  Bending the Curve by 2030: On the Path to a Population Safe Harbour - by Christopher Tuckerhttps://www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/article/view/761/515 We Know How Many People the Earth Can Support – by Christopher TuckerJournal of Population and Sustainability December 2020https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/article/view/657 How Many People Can the Earth Sustain? - The Stream on Al Jazeerah English  10/27/22https://youtu.be/EStNKj5WNnI Sustain What: How Many Billions Can a Heating, Pandemic-Wrapped Planet Support? - A Sustain What chat hosted by Earth Institute's Andrew Revkinhttps://youtu.be/KkPIyR_SrO4 Decline and Prosper! Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer Children(new book debunking aging and other depopulation fears)https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91611-4 Dismissal of “Population Alarmism” is Rooted in Pronatalist Ideology - by Nandita Bajaj https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/opinion/5709-dismissal-of-population-alarmism-is-rooted-in-pronatalist-ideology GrowthBusters Online Communityhttps://growthbusters.groups.io/ GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth - 2011 documentary by Dave Gardnerhttps://tinyurl.com/growthbustersmovie Global Footprint Network - data on biocapacity, ecological footprint and overshoothttps://www.footprintnetwork.org/ Give Us Feedback: Record a voice message for us to play on the podcast: 719-402-1400 Send an email to podcast at growthbusters.org The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/ On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth. Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy. Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/ Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Subscribe to GrowthBusters email updates https://lp.constantcontact.com/su/umptf6w/signup Explore the issues at http://www.growthbusters.org View the GrowthBusters channel on YouTube Follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode:

Sustainable Living Podcast, podcastul care își propune să informeze și să educe publicul larg din România pe tema sustenabilității, lansează cel de-al patrulea sezon. În deschidere, podcastul aduce un dialog cu ES. Dna. Therese Hydén – Ambasadorul Suediei la Bucureşti, în jurul datelor îngrijorătoare despre consumul de resurse în lume și inițiativa Ambasadei Suediei la București, „Re:waste – cum își regândește Suedia resursele”, o expoziție itinerantă prezentată împreună cu platforma de educație ecologică GuerrillaVerde.ro. Studiile realizate de organizaţia internaţională Global Footprint Network încă din 1971 arată că umanitatea consumă mai multe resurse decât este capabil să genereze Pământul. Creșterea cu 1.2% a amprentei de carbon a umanității față de anul precedent, a făcut ca Earth Overshoot Day (Ziua Suprasolicitării Planetei) să vină mai devreme decat oricând: 28 iulie este ziua în care au fost epuizate toate resursele naturale generate de planeta Pământ în anul 2022. Primul episod din noul sezon Sustainable Living Podcast aduce un dialog despre consumul durabil și prezintă pe larg inițiativa Ambasadei Suediei la București, expoziția itinerantă „Re:waste – cum își regândește Suedia resursele”, un proiect de conștietinzare derulat împreună cu platforma de educație ecologică GuerrillaVerde.ro. Lansată în România cu scopul de a contribui la conștientizarea publică privind gestionarea deşeurilor și conservarea resurselor naturale, expoziția reprezintă o invitație pentru a privi mai atent asupra diferitelor faze ale ciclului de viață al unui produs tipic – de la proiectare până la eliminare, cât și o sursă de inspirație pentru a pune bazele unor modele de consum durabile. Expoziția a fost prezentată deja în patru locații din București și din Iași, iar în perioada octombrie – noiembrie 2022 va putea fi văzută în școli și facultăți, acțiunea dedicată tinerilor fiind derulată sub umbrela Săptămânii Europene a Dezvoltării Durabile. Despre planurile pentru expoziția „Re:waste – cum își regândește Suedia resursele” în România, cum poate acest tip de informare să contribuie la creșterea conștientizării privind folosirea resurselor, dar și cum putem transfera expertiza suedeză în acțiuni concrete, a povestit ES. Dna. Therese Hydén – Ambasadorul Suediei la Bucureşti, într-un interviu care poate fi văzut și ascultat pe canalele oficiale de podcast sau pe www.sustainableliving.ro. Sustainble Living Podcast a fost lansat în martie 2021, iar până în prezent a adus în atenția audienței 20 interviuri cu invitați, lansate în trei sezoane. Gazda podcastului este Nicoleta Talpeș, expert în comunicare, cu o experiență de 14 ani în dezvoltarea strategiilor de comunicare pentru proiecte cu impact social, atât pentru companii, cât şi pentru ONG-uri, prin agenţia sa specializată în comunicare socială, Media Image Factory. Întreg conţinutul podcastului este disponibil gratuit pe www.sustainableliving.ro, pe canalele de podcast (Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Pocket Casts) şi în format video pe canalul de YouTube. Follow Sustainable Living Podcast: Website: www.sustainableliving.ro Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3rI4agY YouTube: https://bit.ly/2QWCPuB Facebook: www.facebook.com/SustainableLiving.ro Instagram: www.instagram.com/SustainableLiving.ro

Raising Kids, Naturally is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcastsThis episode was generously sponsored by Orange Naturals. www.orangenaturals.comAbout the EpisodeThe standard of living currently enjoyed in the Global North is simply not sustainable. In order for our children (and all children) to have a healthy future, it is critical that we raise them to consume less. In this inspiring conversation, Leslie and Jennifer Hetzel, host of the podcast “Sustainably Geeky” explore the reasons for and the joy of making more sustainable choices in our families.Guest Bio & LinksJennifer is an activist and lifelong learner with a passion for social justice and the environment. She is currently a grad student at the National University of Ireland-Galway (NUIG), with the goal to work in sustainability full time after graduating. You can hear her on the podcast Sustainably Geeky or the Centex Planeteers show on KNCT 91.3 FM. She enjoys hiking, reading, and is mom to many plants and always taking in strays.https://www.epicallygeeky.com/sustainably-geeky Host Bio & LinksLeslie is a mother, doctor, and human who seeks to help individuals and communities reach their fullest potential. As a naturopathic doctor, Leslie will help you explore how your kids' health and wellbeing reciprocally intersect with the health of their communities and the planet, and offer practical strategies to optimize both.http://lesliesolomonian.weebly.com/about-me.htmlWorks in Progress Collective https://works-in-progress-collective.weebly.com/ Works-in-Progress is an artist collective based in Toronto and Hamilton.We make art out of garbage, co-host swaps and do workshops. We use recycled materials in art-making because up-cycling inspires creativity.Overshoot Day information: https://www.overshootday.org/ Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that provides decision-makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.About the EcoParent Podcast NetworkThe EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family's health, the planet and to our children's future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice across our six podcasts: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids' nutrition, green beauty, healthy home, and raising greener teens. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcastsFeedback?What questions do you have for Leslie or her guests? What would you like to hear about?This program discusses ideas that sometimes run counter to what is considered typical, or perhaps even acceptable. We invite you to reflect on that before listening with impressionable people - interpret that as you will.PartnershipsAny advertising within this podcast does not imply endorsement of the product or company by the podcast host. Listeners are encouraged to talk to their healthcare provider about if and which natural healthcare products are appropriate for them and their families.Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

En este Política Podcast dos ingenieros -Rocío Gambra y Héctor Maturana -, el economista Nabor Carrillo y la Trabajadora Social Karla Linco, se las ingenian para responder dudas políticas. En este capitulo se centran en "El Día del Sobregiro de la Tierra", una iniciativa de Global Footprint Network, una organización de investigación internacional que está cambiando la forma en que el mundo mide y gestiona sus recursos naturales. 

1971 was the first time Earth Overshoot Day was calculated. It signified the day on which human consumption of raw materials can no longer be covered by the formation of new resources. In other words: every day after it, we incur ecological debt. When calculated in 1971 this date fell on 25 December – i.e. humanity consumed more resources than were available for only six calendar days – in just over 50 years, this date now falls on 28 July; 150 days earlier. In 2006, the first global Earth Overshoot Day campaign was launched together with the Global Footprint Network, and since 2007 the WWF, the world's largest nature conservation organisation, has been involved. “This year, from the 29th of July onwards, we will already be ecologically in debt to our children and grandchildren,” says Peter Windischhofer, CEO and Co-Founder of refurbed. “For 156 days this year, we will consume resources that do not belong to us. This is like my salary being used up on the 17th of the month and living on credit for the remainder,” says the founder of the green tech scale-up and online marketplace for sustainable consumption. “ The COVID-19 Pandemic has highlighted humanity's ecological impact Since 2018, Earth Overshoot Day has been a regular visitor in the month of July with the exception of 2020 when it occurred on August 22nd. This was due to global lockdowns. “2020 showed how much influence we could have as a society and how it is possible to move the date back again,” says Windischhofer. “Now we have to learn to find ways to move the date further back, even without COVID-19.” Ireland's 2022 Overshoot Day was worryingly on April 21st, much earlier than the world average According to the Central Statistics Office, in 2018 alone, Ireland had the 3rd worst emissions per capita in Europe, with 53% higher emissions per person than the EU average (12.6 tonnes vs. 8.2 tonnes). “If everyone in the world lived the way we Irish do, we would have celebrated Earth Overshoot Day on the 21st of April this year,” says Pádraig Power, Ireland's marketing manager for refurbed, about the unpleasant date. “This concrete figure will hopefully help us recognise Ireland's exuberant consumer behaviour, and help us realise that now is the time to put the steps in place for a greener future. Change has to be easy, otherwise it is not long-term” “It is simply not true that the individual can do nothing,” Founder Windischhofer knows from his own experience. “Everything we do has effects – some stop eating meat, others switch from the car to the train. The pandemic has shown that remote working is possible across the board and that many kilometres in our everyday lives are also simply superfluous,” the committed entrepreneur is convinced. “It is important that we make changes in behaviour easy, pleasant and attainable, only then will they be permanent. Our consumer behaviour is changing. The concept of ‘reuse – recycle – repair' is slowly catching on in people's minds, but every person is different, every person can save CO2 somewhere else. The Earth doesn't care where we save, it only cares that we do it.” Refurbed is a CO2 negative and an environmentally positive organisation – for every product sold, refurbed plants a tree to offset carbon emissions created during the refurbishing process. The trees are planted in countries such as Haiti, Madagascar, Kenya, Indonesia and Mozambique or Nepal through their partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects. The company also plants native trees in woodlands across Ireland as part of their partnership with Reforest Nation. See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a...

Esta quinta-feira assinala-se o Dia da Sobrecarga da Terra, o dia em que esgotamos os recursos que o planeta pode renovar anualmente. A partir de agora, vivemos a crédito. “A humanidade continua a aumentar o seu défice ecológico”, lembra a Global Footprint Network, uma organização dedicada à gestão de recursos naturais e ao impacto das alterações climáticas. Este ano quem chegou lá mais cedo foi o Qatar e, logo a seguir, o Luxemburgo. Portugal também chegou lá cedo de mais, a 7 de Maio. Neste episódio, conversamos com a jornalista Mara Tribuna. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Le rapport indique qu'Ottawa pourrait augmenter ses dépenses de 45 milliards de dollars ou diminuer les impôts des Canadiens de 45 milliards de dollars. Le projet de loi sur la santé et la crise climatique du président, Joe Biden, sera le plus significatif de l'histoire du pays s'il est adopté. L'humanité a consommé toutes les ressources que la planète peut lui offrir en un an, selon les données de Global Footprint Network. | Nadi Mobarak (journaliste-présentateur)

L'émission 28 Minutes du 29/07/2022 Au programme de l'émission du 27 juillet 2022 ⬇ La meilleure façon de penser, c'est la marche ! L'un est philosophe, l'autre est neurologue. Le point commun de ces deux spécialistes, qui s'intéressent à ce qu'il se passe dans notre tête, est une addiction à la promenade. Comme Platon et Aristote, Roger Pol-Droit et Yves Agid conversent et réfléchissent ensemble en marchant, afin de favoriser l'extraction de leur “jus de crâne”. Selon eux, si nos ancêtres n'avaient pas eu l'idée de se dresser sur leurs deux jambes, peut-être n'aurions-nous jamais été dotés de cette forme si particulière d'intelligence. Ensemble, ils publient “Je marche donc je pense”, un livre pensé et rédigé sous forme de dialogue, fruit de leur réflexion commune sur le sens de la marche. Ils sont nos invités du jour.  Depuis ce jeudi, l'humanité a consommé plus que ce que peut fournir la Terre / “Jour du dépassement” : faut-il rationner les ressources essentielles ? À compter d'aujourd'hui, jeudi 28 juillet, nous avons atteint le “jour du dépassement”. Calculé annuellement par l'ONG américaine Global Footprint Network, cet indicateur révèle la date à partir de laquelle l'humanité a consommé l'entièreté des ressources naturelles que la Terre produit, tout en étant capable de se régénérer. Si elle est intervenue le 1er novembre en 1986, cette échéance se manifeste de plus en plus tôt chaque année. Ainsi, si le monde vivait comme les Français, cette date symbolique tomberait le 5 mai et il faudrait l'équivalent de 2,9 planètes pour subvenir aux besoins de l'humanité. Dans un contexte d'instabilité géopolitique et de crise climatique, des difficultés d'approvisionnement, voire des pénuries, se font d'ores et déjà ressentir. Face à l'épuisement des ressources, faut-il aller jusqu'à prendre des mesures de rationnement ? On en débat avec nos invités Enfin, retrouvez également les chroniques de Paola Puerari et Victor Dekyvère ainsi que le "À la Loop" de Matthieu Conquet. 28 Minutes est le magazine d'actualité d'ARTE, présenté par Jean-Mathieu Pernin du lundi au vendredi à 20h05. Renaud Dély est aux commandes de l'émission le samedi. Ce podcast est coproduit par KM et ARTE Radio. Enregistrement : 28 juillet 2022 - Présentation : Élisabeth Quin - Production : KM, ARTE Radio

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity consumes from Nature more than the planet can provide, either as natural or renewable resources in a year. In 2022, Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 28th, showing the start reality that we are living far beyond Nature's means to sustain our growing demands.About World Ocean RadioWorld Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide. Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects.

For the 2022 Earth Overshoot Day special of PGAP, we observe the occasion by welcoming Brian Czech, founder of the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). As a figurehead of the Degrowth movement, Brian makes a perfect voice of reason for this year's Earth Overshoot Day, which falls on July 28th. In this episode, Brian reflects on the formation and history of CASSE with host Michael Bayliss and how the Steady State and Degrowth movements intersect. He shares his decades of experience and fascinating anecdotes to draw the point home that a steady state revolution is necessary to stop the endless growth paradigm from bringing earth overshoot day all the way to January 01st. Brian Czech has a Ph.D. in renewable natural resources. He is the founding President of CASSE (https://steadystate.org/), and a prolific author. His scientific articles have appeared in dozens of peer-reviewed journals, dealing primarily with ecological and economic sustainability issues. His books include Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads, released in May 2013, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train, which calls for an end to uneconomic growth, and The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy. Brian is also an Interdisciplinary Biologist in the national office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he received a 2010 Star Award for outstanding performance. He has played a leading role in engaging the environmental sciences and natural resources professions in ecological economics and macroeconomic policy dialog. Check out Earth Overshoot Day (https://www.overshootday.org/)and Global Footprint Network (https://www.footprintnetwork.org/) for a rundown on Earth Overshoot Day. According to their press release (https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/press-release-june-2022-english/) for Earth Overshoot Day 2022: “Each year, Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year. Humanity currently uses 75% more than what the planet's ecosystems can regenerate—or “1.75 Earths.” From Earth Overshoot Day until the end of the year, humanity operates on ecological deficit spending.” Further: “Earth Overshoot Day 2022 lands on July 28, earlier than last year. Over 50 years of global overshoot have led to a world where aggravated drought and food insecurity are compounded by unseasonably warm temperatures. As the date indicates, humanity continues to widen its annual ecological deficit two years after the pandemic-induced resource-use reductions exceptionally pushed the date back temporarily by 24 days.” As you can see, EOD2022 is an absolute riot! What can YOU do for Earth Overshoot Day? Glad you asked! Use the hashtag #movethedate in your social media correspondence Donate to Earth Overshoot (https://connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/bbe9bb84-0784-4cb1-bf50-f40c810d8407)so they can continue their good work Sign the CASSE petition (https://steadystate.org/act/sign-the-position/) calling for a Steady State Economy Support Sustainable Population Australia (https://population.org.au/support/), the only Australian environmental NGO willing to investigate the ‘P' part of the IPAT equation Last but not least, share this and other episodes of PGAP and rate and review on Apple Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/post-growth-australia-podcast/id1522194099) (This list is not exhaustive of course. Reduce your consumption, embrace small families, annoy big business and property developers and TRY not to vote for one of the major political parties next time -as tempting as this may be. Basically, be the opposite of Elon Musk) Enjoy this episode and want to down a rabbit hole of links? With PGAP's help, you'll never have to leave your computer screen again! (Thank us later). The CASSE website (https://steadystate.org/) is a great place to start! The Steady Stater Podcast (which Brian hosts) can be found here. (https://steadystate.org/learn/the-steady-stater-podcast/) A fantastic program with a rotation of extremely high quality guests. I was part of that rotation not so long ago! ‘A Song For Post -Growth Australia (with Michael Bayliss) can be found here (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1244474/9663103). The first ever episode of PGAP (https://pgap.fireside.fm/steadystate) interviewed two Australian Chapter directors of CASSE: Martin Tye and Jonathan Miller. See where we began and where PGAP (and CASSE!) have gone since. July has been a busy month at PGAP – on July 11th we commiserated World Population Day. You may be interested in an article I wrote for the YourLifeChoices journal on behalf of Sustainable Population Australia: “Should we rethink a Big Australia for World Population Day (https://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/lifestyle/should-we-rethink-a-big-australia-for-world-population-day/)?” (The question is rhetorical). You may also be interested in SPA's media release. (https://population.org.au/media-releases/wpd2022/) In the interview I mentioned the EarthX interview (https://video.earthxtv.com/shows/overcomingovershoot/season/1/episode/12) with Brian and Degrowth expert Anitra Nelson. PGAP also interviewed Anitra Nelson (https://pgap.fireside.fm/degrowth) back in Season 1 More information on PGAP host Michael Bayliss can be found on his website here (https://michaelbayliss.org/). _All views and opinions expressed by our guests, including references to their past and present work are totally their own and do not necessarily reflect any views or positions held by Post Growth Australia Podcast. _ Special Guest: Brian Czech.

A Brief note of thanks, plus why Jeffrey James is "a prisoner of Hope." The Global Footprint Network.

Você já ouviu falar no dia de Sobrecarga da Terra? Essa data marca o dia do ano em que a demanda da humanidade por recursos naturais supera a capacidade da Terra de produzir ou renovar esses recursos ao longo de 365 dias. Geralmente essa data acontece entre julho e agosto, porém, quanto mais rápido a humanidade esgotar esses recursos, mais cedo ficará registrado o Dia da Sobrecarga da Terra. E esse cálculo é feito por uma ONG, a Global Footprint Network, com base em 3 milhões de dados estatísticos de 200 países. E esse cálculo é feito da seguinte forma: eles dividem a biocapacidade do planeta (em hectares globais) pela pegada ecológica da humanidade (em hectares globais) e multiplicam pelo número de dias em um ano, que é 365. Se a gente observar o Dia da Sobrecarga da Terra do ano passado, que foi 29 de julho, seriam necessários 1,7 planetas Terra para atender à demanda humana pelos recursos naturais. Então, pense nisso e lembre-se que pequenas mudanças de comportamento contribuem muito para um melhor impacto social e ambiental. Como Salvar o Planeta em 60 Segundos é um Podcast do Pensamento Verde. Para mais informações acesse nosso portal: pensamentoverde.com.br Locução: Fernanda Correia Trabalhos técnicos: Vinícius Correia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pensamento-verde/message

15 maggio l'Italia esaurirà le risorse e i servizi naturali a disposizione per quest'anno, due giorni dopo rispetto al 2021. E' quanto rivela la tabella del Global Footprint Network, organizzazione di ricerca internazionale che misura l'"overshoot day", l'impronta ecologica dei Paesi, vale a dire la domanda di risorse rispetto alla loro capacità di rigenerarsi. L'Italia, secondo i calcoli del National Footprint, avrebbe bisogno di 2,7 Terre rispetto alle 5,1 degli Stati Uniti, 4,5 dell'Australia e 3,4 della Russia, mentre, secondo un altro calcolo, l'Italia avrebbe bisogno di essere 5,3 volte più grande di se stessa per soddisfare la domanda di natura dei propri residenti, piazzandosi al secondo posto dopo il Giappone con 7,9. Maggio 2022 è il mese con il maggior numero di Paesi in "overshoot day", per cui vanno in debito con la Terra sull'anno successivo: sono, infatti, 28 o 29 se si include l'Unione europea nel suo insieme. L'overshoot day 2021 della Terra era stato il 29 luglio e bisognerà attendere il 5 giugno prossimo - cioè la Giornata mondiale dell'Ambiente - per conoscere l'Earth overshoot day 2022. Secondo i calcoli della tabella in questione, l'umanità sta “usando la natura 1,75 volte più velocemente di quanto la biocapacità del nostro pianeta possa rigenerarsi”: il che equivale a “utilizzare le risorse di 1,75 Terre”. Global Footprint ricorda che l'impronta ecologica è tra gli indicatori più completi ad oggi disponibili per la contabilità delle risorse biologiche e somma tutte le richieste concorrenti delle persone per le aree biologicamente produttive: cibo, legname, fibre, sequestro del carbonio e sistemazione delle infrastrutture. Attualmente, le emissioni di carbonio derivanti dai combustibili fossili contribuiscono al 61% dell'Impronta Ecologica dell'umanità.

Alexa Firmenich is a consultant, investor and facilitator focused on the climate and environment. Her workshops and learning journeys are based upon deep ecology principles, regenerative leadership and cultivating ecological literacy in decision-makers. She is an Associate at Leaders' Quest, an international organisation that develops quests and learning programmes for top executives and family offices. She is the founder of Ground Effect, an animist investment vehicle that invests in early-stage nature-based solutions and scientific research. As an author, poet, photographer and wilderness guide, Alexa designs experiences that bring stakeholders into direct contact with the living world. She is a founding board member of Terra Habitus, a Mexican environmental fund that operates large-landscape conservation and watershed restoration projects, a founding board member of the Mare Nostrum Ocean Plastics Initiative, and a Board Member of the ecological accounting firm Global Footprint Network. She currently lives between Europe and Mexico.Resources https://www.groundeffect.io/http://www.alexafirmenich.com/abouthttps://www.atlasunbound.co/aboutushttps://alexafirmenich.medium.com/the-nature-word-bd081e7898a6https://alexafirmenich.medium.com/what-the-salmon-have-to-say-d56adea34027https://alexafirmenich.medium.com/aligning-law-and-life-an-inquiry-into-the-rights-of-nature-ec10c1c2edb2

Chickens, Tomatoes and Cars: The Wonky Numbers Behind Your Carbon Footprint We NEED to be obsessed with shrinking our footprint, and Lloyd Alter did the research, the spreadsheet, and the book to help us all do our part. Did you know you can cut your carbon footprint from food in half? In a continuation of last episode's conversation, Lloyd Alter, author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle: Why Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever, shares what matters most from what he learned while shrinking his annual carbon footprint to meet the carbon budget allowed to meet 1.5°C goals. Don't Miss: Stephanie makes a shocking confession about her 2019 lifestyle and carbon footprint. And Lloyd raised quite a stir with this tweet: “I was shocked when I e-biked past the gas station, the price is twice as high as when I last filled the car two years ago.” Some of the Revelations: Tomatoes have an unusually large carbon footprint. Eating food in season tastes better! He introduces us to the term “climatarian” - a person who chooses what to eat according to what is least harmful to the environment. We engage in “portion distortion” – we put too much on the plate and either eat too much or toss the excess The delivery of a take-out order emits twice the carbon of producing that food. Embodied energy or carbon, or upfront carbon emissions, are a big part of our consumption footprint We'd be well-served to focus on “sufficiency.” What is enough? What do you need? MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle – by Lloyd Alter https://newsociety.com/books/l/living-the-1-5-degree-lifestyle TreeHugger – one of the world's leading sustainability information websites https://www.treehugger.com/ Take the Jump - Less consuming but more creativity, care, comedy, camaraderie, contentment, craft, connection, celebration, culture and community. https://takethejump.org/ Lettuce is Stupid http://lettuceisstupid.com/ Pilot project and spreadsheet https://1five.org Hot or Cool Institute https://hotorcool.org/  Global Footprint Network ecological footprint calculator https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en Give Us Feedback: Record a voice message for us to play on the podcast: +1-719-402-1400 Send an email to podcast at growthbusters.org The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/ On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth. Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy. Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/ Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Subscribe to GrowthBusters email updates https://lp.constantcontact.com/su/umptf6w/signup Explore the issues at http://www.growthbusters.org See the film, GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo View the GrowthBusters channel on YouTube Follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode:

Today, Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian talks to Dr Mathis Wackernagel, the founder and president of the Global Footprint Network. He co-developed the concept of the ecological footprint in the late 90s and has been a prominent advocate for sustainability for over two decades. He particularly works around Earth Overshoot Day, the day each year when the earth exceeds a year's worth of resources (in 2021, this was July 29).Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website Subscribe to Cosmos Magazine (print) or the Cosmos WeeklyWatch and listen to all our Cosmos BriefingsSpecial 10% discount on Cosmos magazine print subscriptions (1 or 2 year), or 1 year Cosmos Weekly subscriptions for Cosmos Briefing podcast listeners!  Use coupon code COSMOSPOD in our shop.

Christiana Figueres (pictured) is famous for her achievements in Paris in 2015/16 and now has an organization known a Global Optimism and Outrage which sees Earth's future as being linked to that of food. Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "State of Climate Action 2021"; "Africa's civil society leave COP26 disappointed"; "Floods, sewage and crocodiles: the crisis of the Gambia's sinking city"; "The Guardian view on the Cop26 agreement: unfinished business"; "Hit $100bn target or poor countries face climate disaster, the Gambia tells Cop26"; "‘Killing us slowly': dams and drought choke Syria's water supply – in pictures"; "Stop talking, start acting, says Africa's first extreme heat official"; "US auctions off oil and gas drilling leases in Gulf of Mexico after climate talks"; "Casey Harrell: the climate activist taking on Wall Street – and the muscle-wasting disease that's killing him"; "A £300 monsoon-busting home: the Bangladeshi architect fighting extreme weather"; "Living in China's Expanding Deserts"; "Can ‘the people' solve climate change? France decided to find out"; "How to talk about climate change: Ask questions"; "Our Reef needs us now more than ever"; "Global Footprint Network"; "Disruption, Implications, and Choices: Rethinking Climate Change"; "Coalition commissions modelling of climate impact on health system"; "Prepare your garden for summer heat: Step one, weed just enough"; "‘A farce': experts dismiss government claims a controversial and unproven technology will cut emissions by 15%"; "The B.C. flooding isn't just a regional catastrophe – it's a warning that climate change is coming for everyone"; "Buhari signs Climate Change Bill into law"; "Keeping Influential Voices in the Media"; "Connecting the dots between B.C.'s floods, landslides and the clearcut logging of old forests"; "Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope"; "Forests Collective Meeting". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

Mathis Wackernagel fordert im Falle des Scheiterns der Weltklimakonferenz in Glasgow die Länder zu noch größeren Anstrengungen auf. "Wir denken, wir sollten nur handeln, wenn wir uns in Glasgow einigen können. Eigentlich ist es genau umgekehrt", sagt der Schweizer Klimaexperte.

This is my final Sustainability-Month-Themed show for 2021, and features an interview with Julia Burke. Julia teaches the "Environmental Citizenship" post-secondary course at Canadore College. This is a fascinating and educational conversation about this course, and about recognizing our role in within our global environment and our responsibility to consider our actions and what we can do to mitigate our impact.About the course, Environmental Citizenship GED100 at Canadore College:Based on the general principles of national citizenship, environmental citizenship goes beyond national borders to emphasize global environmental rights and responsibilities-to focus on both conservation of and planned sustainable use of our planet’s resources, as well as the recognition that environmental health is a prerequisite to human health. Environmental citizenship is a personal commitment to learning more about the environment and to taking responsible environmental action. This course is a journey into adopting attitudes and behaviours that foster global environmental responsibility.https://www.canadorecollege.ca/.../environmental-citizenshipThis interview was originally recorded on Oct 21, 2021Additional resources Julia wanted to share:"The four lifestyle choices that most reduce your carbon footprint" https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/.../four-lifestyle... This article has a very useful infographic showing the high, moderate, and low impact actions and the annual climate savings. The short version is that research has shown the most impactful lifestyle choice to reduce your carbon footprint is to have one fewer child, followed by living car free, avoiding one transatlantic flight, and buying green energy. Often these high impact choices are overlooked with more attention going to low impact actions such as recycling.Ecological Footprint Calculator by the Global Footprint Network:https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/enJohn Francis' Ted Talk: Walk the earth...my 17-year vow of silence (19 min): Subscribe at bridgingthesocialdistance.substack.com

The Steady Stater podcast returns for Season 2! Our first episode also sees the return of our very first guest Laurel Hanscom, CEO of the Global Footprint Network. Laurel and Brian discuss the 2021 rebound of Earth Overshoot Day, the #100DaysOfPossibility campaign in the run up to COP26, acknowledgements of limits to growth creeping into government organizations, and the ecological poverty trap. Enjoy!

“Humankind is using up the biophysical basis of its own existence.” That's the bottom line of this Earth Overshoot Day conversation with William Rees, the father of ecological footprint analysis.  According to Rees, “the only way out of overshoot is less production and less consumption, so it means a much smaller economy and far fewer people.” Earth Overshoot Day in 2021 is July 29. At this point in the year, we've already demanded a year's worth of the Earth's sustainable regenerative capacity. LINKS: Pronatalism and Overpopulation: Challenging the Social Pressures to Procreatehttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7FCMriyVEeMLd3ng0lMWDojlpIFkjuyV Earth Overshoot Day https://www.overshootday.org/ Global Footprint Network https://www.footprintnetwork.org/ This Sustainable Life podcast https://joshuaspodek.com/podcast Untucking Overpopulation with Alexandra Paul - Episode 62 of The Overpopulation Podcast https://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/podcasts/2021-06-02-episode-62-untucking-overpopulation-alexandra-paul Human Overpopulation: An Overview – Alexandra Paul presentation at San Diego State University https://sdsu.zoom.us/rec/play/s7FhvLVhomKSK4j66kW1XhIKOKO_4pR4Z_MrIFZhY6GGejMa9cedngAfqq4QGT1nB6IMacWdQa90kdOa.MU51GB96njRiOXW-?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=UaetWGlsSOaWSg-JoJ7VRw.1622056257385.2a26ec9ce8972216cf8b211a77a179f9&_x_zm_rhtaid=604 Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth – by William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318225.Our_Ecological_Footprint The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by World Population Balance. We make the connections between overpopulation and the many vexing issues of the day. We make it possible for individuals and couples to make more fully informed and carefully considered family-size decisions. Smaller families are key to achieving a sustainable population and creating a more resilient and beautiful future. Overpopulation is one of the two main drivers of resource depletion, poverty, climate change, and species extinction. The good news: overpopulation is solvable - ethically, equitably and voluntarily. Join co-hosts Dave Gardner and Nandita Bajaj, along with occasional guest experts, as we shine a little light on this often misunderstood subject. Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Sustainable Population Activists online community Join the Sustainable Population Meetup Receive Overpopulation Updates via email        

Ce jeudi 29 juillet 2021 marque le «jour du dépassement», selon l'institut de recherche américain Global Footprint Network. L'humanité a ainsi déjà consommé l'ensemble des ressources planétaires pour cette année. Frédéric Rivière reçoit Jean Jouzel, climatologue et ancien président du groupe scientifique du Giec. Co-auteur avec Baptiste Denis de « Climat, parlons vrai »(Éditions François Bourin).

Everything your friends, family, colleagues, journalists and elected representatives need to know about Earth Overshoot Day. Every other week, another scientific report is added to the stack of evidence human civilization has outgrown the planet. What are we doing about it? Earth Overshoot Day is the point in time during the year at which we've already burned through the renewable resources it takes the Earth a year to regenerate. Earth Overshoot Day in 2021 is July 29. Global Footprint Network continuously analyzes UN data and satellite imagery to estimate the planet's capacity to meet our needs (biocapacity), and humankind's footprint - or demand (ecological footprint) - on that capacity. According to their analysis, we're demanding almost twice what the planet can sustainably provide. In the U.S. and a few other nations, we're engaged in 5-planet living (U.S. Overshoot Day was March 14). Every year as Earth Overshoot Day approaches, we dedicate an episode of the GrowthBusters podcast to playing an audio documentary we produced in 2019. Welcome to Overshoot: Have a Nice Day explores overshoot's causes, effects, and possible solutions, as well as some of the barriers to solving the problem. LINKS: Earth Overshoot Day https://www.overshootday.org/ The Limits to Growth http://donellameadows.org/the-limits-to-growth-now-available-to-read-online/ Conversation Earth - Radio Series/Podcast http://www.conversationearth.org/episode-list Reported by: Dave Gardner Interviews: William Catton, author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change Brian Czech, author of Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution, and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Herman Daly, author of Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development Paul Ehrlich, Stanford Biologist, author of The Population Bomb Kerryn Higgs, author of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet Ian Johnson, former World Bank vice president, former secretary general of Club of Rome Bill McKibben, environmental journalist, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, co-founder of 350.org. Dennis Meadows, lead scientist, The Limits to Growth Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist William Rees, co-originator of ecological footprint analysis Bill Ryerson, President of Population Media Center and Chair of Population Institute Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston University and author of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth John Seager, CEO of Population Connection Gus Speth, former chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality Mathis Wackernagel, founder of Global Footprint Network and co-author of Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget Rex Weyler, environmental journalist On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program for our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth. Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/ Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Subscribe to GrowthBusters email updates https://lp.constantcontact.com/su/umptf6w/signup See the film – GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth http:www.growthbustersmovie.org Explore the issues at http://www.growthbusters.org View the GrowthBusters channel on YouTube Follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode:

Mathis Wackernagel is my guest on Episode 99 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. co-created the Ecological Footprint in the early 1990s with his Ph.D. advisor Prof. Rees at the University of British Columbia. Now he is President of Global Footprint Network which he founded in 2003 with Susan Burns. Together with its partners, Global Footprint Network focuses on bringing about a sustainable economy in which all can thrive within the means of our one planet. Since 2003 this international think-tank has engaged with more than 50 nations, 30 cities, and 70 global partners to deliver scientific insights for policy and investment decisions. With their annual Earth Overshoot Day, they annually reach over 4 billion media impressions. Mathis' awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, the 2012 Blue Planet Prize, the 2012 Binding-Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment, an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne, and the 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. https://www.footprintnetwork.org/

Lo spessore della stratosfera si è ridotto di 400 metri dal 1980 a causa delle emissioni di gas serra e si ridurrà di 1 altro chilometro entro il 2080, se le emissioni stesse non verranno tagliate. La cosa potrebbe danneggiare l'operatività dei satelliti, il sistema Gps e le telecomunicazioni. Lo sostiene una ricerca condotta da studiosi di Germania, Austria, Spagna, Repubblica Ceca e Stati Uniti, e pubblicata sulla rivista Environmental Research Letters. La stratosfera si trova fra i 20 e i 60 km dalla superficie terrestre e, secondo la ricerca, i gas serra la riducono per due motivi. Da un lato si espandono nell'atmosfera sottostante, schiacciando verso l'alto il limite inferiore dello strato superiore. Dall'altro lato, i gas serra fanno raffreddare la stratosfera e, quindi, la restringono, perché assorbono calore e riducono la dispersione nello spazio del calore solare che arriva sulla terra. La ricerca ha esaminato i dati dei satelliti dal 1980 ad oggi e, a detta degli studiosi, il restringimento della stratosfera può molto influire sulle traiettorie dei satelliti, sulla propagazione delle onde radio e quindi sull'efficienza del sistema Gps. E passiamo adesso ad occuparci di un argomento che, apparentemente, avrebbe solo a che vedere col mondo della finanza, ma che, invece, coinvolge anche i temi che trattiamo abitualmente in questa rubrica. Infatti, l'impronta di carbonio dei Sistemi di pagamento istantanei dell'Eurozona ( i cosiddetti TIPS), nel 2019, è stata quasi 40.000 volte inferiore a quella di Bitcoin. Lo rivela una ricerca della Banca d'Italia, che ha messo a confronto le emissioni di gas serra dei bitcoin con quelle del servizio per i pagamenti elettronici istantanei, istituito nel 2018 dalla Banca centrale europea e dalle Banche centrali degli stati membri della UE. La differenza dell'impronta carbonica, secondo l'indagine, è solo in minima parte spiegata dal minor volume complessivo di transazioni di TIPS, in quanto l'incremento marginale delle emissioni per transazione aggiuntiva è molto contenuto: anche se TIPS lavorasse a pieno ritmo, questa differenza rimarrebbe, dunque, pressoché invariata. L'enorme differenza nell'impronta di carbonio tra TIPS e Bitcoin deriva, invece, dal fatto che quest'ultimo utilizza una notevole quantità di energia al fine di generare fiducia e consenso tra i partecipanti alla rete, mentre nel caso di TIPS questa fiducia è fornita dall'Eurosistema. Il confronto viene poi esteso anche ad altre infrastrutture di pagamento. Le prestazioni di TIPS, per quanto meno pronunciate che nel caso del confronto con Bitcoin, rimangono tuttavia sensibilmente più elevate. E prima di concludere questa nostra puntata di sostenibilità e dintorni, desideriamo specificarvi che col termine “overshoot”, tecnicamente, si intende il giorno in cui l'umanità consuma completamente le risorse prodotte dal pianeta nell'intero anno. Per quanto riguarda il nostro Paese, vi segnaliamo che, quest'anno, l'Italia ha già esaurito le risorse naturali a disposizione e per il resto del 2021 va in debito con la Terra. Il Global footprint network, che calcola l'impronta ecologica di ciascuna nazione e quello mondiale - che nel 2020 è caduto il 22 agosto - indica che l'"overshoot" day per il nostro Paese è stato il 13 maggio. Pertanto, a questo punto, secondo il Global Footprint Network, l'Italia avrebbe bisogno delle risorse di 2,7 Terre per arrivare alla fine dell'anno. L'anno scorso l'Italia ha avuto l'overshoot day il 14 maggio e due anni fa il 15.

Lo spessore della stratosfera si è ridotto di 400 metri dal 1980 a causa delle emissioni di gas serra e si ridurrà di 1 altro chilometro entro il 2080, se le emissioni stesse non verranno tagliate. La cosa potrebbe danneggiare l'operatività dei satelliti, il sistema Gps e le telecomunicazioni. Lo sostiene una ricerca condotta da studiosi di Germania, Austria, Spagna, Repubblica Ceca e Stati Uniti, e pubblicata sulla rivista Environmental Research Letters.La stratosfera si trova fra i 20 e i 60 km dalla superficie terrestre e, secondo la ricerca, i gas serra la riducono per due motivi. Da un lato si espandono nell'atmosfera sottostante, schiacciando verso l'alto il limite inferiore dello strato superiore. Dall'altro lato, i gas serra fanno raffreddare la stratosfera e, quindi, la restringono, perché assorbono calore e riducono la dispersione nello spazio del calore solare che arriva sulla terra.La ricerca ha esaminato i dati dei satelliti dal 1980 ad oggi e, a detta degli studiosi, il restringimento della stratosfera può molto influire sulle traiettorie dei satelliti, sulla propagazione delle onde radio e quindi sull'efficienza del sistema Gps.E passiamo adesso ad occuparci di un argomento che, apparentemente, avrebbe solo a che vedere col mondo della finanza, ma che, invece, coinvolge anche i temi che trattiamo abitualmente in questa rubrica.Infatti, l'impronta di carbonio dei Sistemi di pagamento istantanei dell'Eurozona ( i cosiddetti TIPS), nel 2019, è stata quasi 40.000 volte inferiore a quella di Bitcoin. Lo rivela una ricerca della Banca d'Italia, che ha messo a confronto le emissioni di gas serra dei bitcoin con quelle del servizio per i pagamenti elettronici istantanei, istituito nel 2018 dalla Banca centrale europea e dalle Banche centrali degli stati membri della UE.La differenza dell'impronta carbonica, secondo l'indagine, è solo in minima parte spiegata dal minor volume complessivo di transazioni di TIPS, in quanto l'incremento marginale delle emissioni per transazione aggiuntiva è molto contenuto: anche se TIPS lavorasse a pieno ritmo, questa differenza rimarrebbe, dunque, pressoché invariata.L'enorme differenza nell'impronta di carbonio tra TIPS e Bitcoin deriva, invece, dal fatto che quest'ultimo utilizza una notevole quantità di energia al fine di generare fiducia e consenso tra i partecipanti alla rete, mentre nel caso di TIPS questa fiducia è fornita dall'Eurosistema.Il confronto viene poi esteso anche ad altre infrastrutture di pagamento. Le prestazioni di TIPS, per quanto meno pronunciate che nel caso del confronto con Bitcoin, rimangono tuttavia sensibilmente più elevate.E prima di concludere questa nostra puntata di sostenibilità e dintorni, desideriamo specificarvi che col termine “overshoot”, tecnicamente, si intende il giorno in cui l'umanità consuma completamente le risorse prodotte dal pianeta nell'intero anno.Per quanto riguarda il nostro Paese, vi segnaliamo che, quest'anno, l'Italia ha già esaurito le risorse naturali a disposizione e per il resto del 2021 va in debito con la Terra. Il Global footprint network, che calcola l'impronta ecologica di ciascuna nazione e quello mondiale - che nel 2020 è caduto il 22 agosto - indica che l'"overshoot" day per il nostro Paese è stato il 13 maggio. Pertanto, a questo punto, secondo il Global Footprint Network, l'Italia avrebbe bisogno delle risorse di 2,7 Terre per arrivare alla fine dell'anno.L'anno scorso l'Italia ha avuto l'overshoot day il 14 maggio e due anni fa il 15.

Global Footprint Network, entro fine anno servono 2,7 Terre.

Homeoffice, geschlossene Läden, Online-Unterricht. Das Leben spielt sich momentan hauptsächlich digital ab. Wie wirkt sich das auf unseren ökologischen Fussabdruck aus? Wir haben mit Mathis Wackernagell dem Miterfinder vom ökologischen Fussabdruck und Präsident des Global Footprint Network, gesprochen.

Le jour du dépassement, on en entend parler chaque année... C'est le moment où l'humanité a consommé toutes les ressources que les écosystèmes peuvent produire en un an. Après cette date, nous vivons en quelque sorte à crédit, en puisant dans les stocks de ressources non renouvelables de la planète.En 1971, le jour du dépassement était le 20 décembre...En 1975, c'était le 30 novembre...En 1980, c'était le 4 novembre...Cette date, calculée par le Global Footprint Network, un institut de recherches international établi en Californie, ne fait que reculer.En 2000, c'était le 23 septembre...En 2010, le jour du dépassement était le 7 août...En 2019, le 29 juillet...Mais cette année, pour la première fois, le jour du dépassement est tombé trois semaines plus tard. C'était ce weekend, le 22 août... C'est une conséquence du confinement planétaire… « Cela montre que des changements importants et rapides sont possibles », s'enthousiasme juge Mathis WACKERNAGEL, le président du Global Footprint Network.Alors, peut-on poursuivre sur cette voie, sans reconfiner la planète entière ? Oui, selon l'institut : une réduction de 50 % de l'empreinte carbone permettrait de repousser la date de 93 jours tandis que réduire de moitié les gaspillages alimentaires la ferait reculer de 13 jours. Et selon Global Footprint Network, « Si nous reculons la date de cinq jours par an, l'humanité pourra vivre dans les limites de notre planète avant 2050.»Earth © Getty Images / Ulrich Baumgarten Notre politique de confidentialité GDPR a été mise à jour le 8 août 2022. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

If we were on a spaceship, the end really would be near – August 22. That is Earth Overshoot Day for 2020. We all know we can’t graze 100 head of cattle for long on a one-acre patch of land. We’d have a barren wasteland and a bunch of dead cattle in no time. It’s a little more challenging for us to make this calculation about meeting the needs of 7.8 billion people on a larger patch of land – the entire planet. But the laws of physics equally apply. Analysts at Global Footprint Network do an impressive job of performing this worldwide calculation. Since 2003, they’ve been analyzing UN data and satellite imagery to estimate the planet’s capacity to meet our needs (biocapacity), and humankind’s footprint - or demand (ecological footprint) - on that capacity. Their analysis suggests we have been in overshoot since about 1970. If you have too many people, consuming resources faster than the planet can regenerate them, and generating waste faster than the planet can convert that waste, you are in overshoot. This bonus episode of GrowthBusters features the Conversation Earth special, Welcome to Overshoot: Have a Nice Day. This is a 2020 update of the special we shared a year ago. Welcome to Overshoot explores overshoot’s causes, effects, and possible solutions, as well as some of the barriers to solving the problem. It features a who’s who of environmental and economic experts: William Catton, author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change Brian Czech, author of Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution, and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Herman Daly, author of Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development Paul Ehrlich, Stanford Biologist, author of The Population Bomb Kerryn Higgs, author of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet Ian Johnson, former World Bank vice president, former secretary general of Club of Rome Bill McKibben, environmental journalist, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, co-founder of 350.org. Dennis Meadows, lead scientist, The Limits to Growth Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist William Rees, co-originator of ecological footprint analysis Bill Ryerson, President of Population Media Center and Chair of Population Institute Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston University and author of True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy John Seager, CEO of Population Connection Gus Speth, former chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality, Co-Chair of the Next System Project Mathis Wackernagel, founder of Global Footprint Network and co-author of Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget Rex Weyler, environmental journalist   LINKS: Earth Overshoot Day The Limits to Growth Conversation Earth podcasts Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget by Mathis Wackernagel and Bert Beyers Footprint Calculator Move the Date Solutions to accelerate the shift to one-planet living Past Earth Overshoot Days   OTHER LINKS: Join the conversation on Facebook Make a donation to support this non-profit project. Archive of all episodes of the GrowthBusters podcast Subscribe to GrowthBusters email updates See the film – GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth Explore the issues at www.growthbusters.org View the GrowthBusters channel on YouTube Subscribe (free) so you don't miss an episode:

The best scientific estimates tell us human civilization is in overshoot. Were you aware of this? Do you know what overshoot is? Earth Overshoot Day in 2020 is August 22. Computer modeling by a team of MIT scientists in 1972 estimated the scale of human activity on the planet would cause systems to fail within a hundred years. Such failure is expected when humanity’s footprint on the planet consistently exceeds its carrying capacity. Since 1972, study after study, and report after report, has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth’s ecosystems to bear. Since 2003, scientists at Global Footprint Network have been analyzing UN data and satellite imagery to estimate the planet’s capacity to meet our needs (biocapacity), and humankind’s footprint - or demand (ecological footprint) - on that capacity. Their analysis suggests we have been in overshoot since about 1970. Welcome to Overshoot explores overshoot’s causes, effects, and possible solutions, as well as some of the barriers to solving the problem. Reported by: Dave Gardner Interviews: William Catton, author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change Brian Czech, author of Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution, and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Herman Daly, author of Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development Paul Ehrlich, Stanford Biologist, author of The Population Bomb Kerryn Higgs, author of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet Ian Johnson, former World Bank vice president, former secretary general of Club of Rome Bill McKibben, environmental journalist, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, co-founder of 350.org. Dennis Meadows, lead scientist, The Limits to Growth Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist William Rees, co-originator of ecological footprint analysis Bill Ryerson, President of Population Media Center and Chair of Population Institute Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston University and author of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth John Seager, CEO of Population Connection Gus Speth, former chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality Mathis Wackernagel, founder of Global Footprint Network and co-author of Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget Rex Weyler, environmental journalist Links: Earth Overshoot Day https://www.overshootday.org/ The Limits to Growth http://donellameadows.org/the-limits-to-growth-now-available-to-read-online/ Conversation Earth http://www.conversationearth.org/episode-list GrowthBusters Podcast about sustainable living http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast

Empresária e empreendedora com 8 anos de experiência em Economia Colaborativa. Empreende plataformas colaborativas e inovadoras para gerar renda e inclusão. É fundadora da Partio, uma plataforma de Crowdfunding e do espaço de Coworking, Ene Consultórios e também apresenta o podcast Mulheres Positivas. Minha convidada de hoje no Vieses Femininos, abrindo a temporada 2020 é Natalie Assad Feller. Em 29 de julho de 2019 nosso planeta Terra atingiu seu esgotamento de recursos naturais. O dia da Sobrecarga da Terra do ano passado foi o mais cedo em toda a série histórica, desde 1970, quando começou a ser medido. A partir desta data, a humanidade entra 'no vermelho' no uso de recursos naturais, ou seja, usará mais recursos do que a Terra consegue repor. A estimativa é da Global Footprint Network, organização internacional pioneira em calcular a pegada ecológica, que contabiliza o quanto de recurso natural é usado para as necessidades de um indivíduo ou população. O que é economia colaborativa e como ela pode contribuir para a diminuição da pegada ecológica? Como este modelo econômico pode impulsionar ainda mais a sororidade em movimentos pela liderança feminina? Como e quando você começou no crowdfunding? Como esta modalidade de captação de recursos pode viabilizar e impulsionar o empreendedorismo feminino? Como nasceu o Ene consultórios? O que é o Mulheres Positivas? Quem são as mulheres positivas e como posso me identificar com o movimento?

Mathis Wackernagel, founder and president of Global Footprint Network, joins Jared to discuss #MoveTheDate, using a financial lens to examine our environmental impact, and why more people having "skin in the game" gives him hope for real change. Support this conversation and unlock additional benefits by backing At The Table on Patreon.

Balancing Our Account with Nature By Design and Not Disaster Mathis Wackernagel, Founder and President, Global Footprint Network How can we live well within nature’s planetary boundaries? Arguably, this is one of the most important questions for our world to answer today. The Global Footprint Network was founded over 30 years ago by Mathis Wackernagel, currently the President, to help individuals, communities and countries calculate their global consumption of natural resources. According to Mathis, once we understand our Global Footprint and how we are extracting natural resources; then we can better budget and manage our resource use to ensure that we both live high quality lives; but don’t overshoot our annual natural budget by more than 1 Planet worth of resources.  Let’s listen to Mathis and learn how we can better adapt our lives to get to a sustainable world by innovative design; and not disaster.

Since 1972, study after study, and report after report, has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth’s ecosystems to bear. Welcome to Overshoot explores overshoot’s causes, effects, and possible solutions, as well as some of the barriers to solving the problem. This is an in-depth follow up to episode 31 of the GrowthBusters podcast, which included a lengthy conversation with Mathis Wackernagel, co-originator of ecological footprint analysis and founder of Global Footprint Network. The best scientific estimates tell us human civilization is in overshoot. Were you aware of this? Do you know what overshoot is? This one-hour special is particularly relevant in the days leading up to, and immediately following, Earth Overshoot Day on July 29, 2019. Computer modeling by a team of MIT scientists in 1972 estimated the scale of human activity on the planet would cause systems to fail within a hundred years. Such failure is expected when humanity’s footprint on the planet consistently exceeds its carrying capacity. Since 1972, study after study, and report after report, has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth’s ecosystems to bear. Since 2003, scientists at Global Footprint Network have been analyzing UN data and satellite imagery to estimate the planet’s capacity to meet our needs (biocapacity), and humankind’s footprint - or demand (ecological footprint) - on that capacity. Their analysis suggests we have been in overshoot since about 1970. Welcome to Overshoot explores overshoot’s causes, effects, and possible solutions, as well as some of the barriers to solving the problem. Participants: Reported by: Dave Gardner Interviews: William Catton, author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change Brian Czech, author of Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution, and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Herman Daly, author of Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development Paul Ehrlich, Stanford Biologist, author of The Population Bomb Kerryn Higgs, author of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet Ian Johnson, former World Bank vice president, former secretary general of Club of Rome Bill McKibben, environmental journalist, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, co-founder of 350.org. Dennis Meadows, lead scientist, The Limits to Growth Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist William Rees, co-originator of ecological footprint analysis Bill Ryerson, President of Population Media Center and Chair of Population Institute Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston University and author of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth John Seager, CEO of Population Connection Gus Speth, former chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality Mathis Wackernagel, founder of Global Footprint Network and co-author of Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget Rex Weyler, environmental journalist   Links: Earth Overshoot Day The Limits to Growth Conversation Earth Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget by Mathis Wackernagel and Bert Beyers (pre-order the book now, publication date is September 3, 2019) Footprint Calculator Move the Date Solutions to accelerate the shift to one-planet living Overshoot Index Past Earth Overshoot Days   Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Support this Vital Work Subscribe (free) so you don't miss an episode:

In seven months humanity has burned through the resources it takes the Earth a full year to replenish. This is overshoot, and yes, it is a very big deal. In 2019, Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 29. Find out how we know when “Earth Overshoot Day” falls, how and why we’re operating in ecological deficit, what it means for us and our children, and what – if anything – we can do about it. Ecological footprint co-originator Mathis Wackernagel joins Erika and Dave for an in-depth discussion of overshoot. He explains the rigorous analysis done by the Global Footprint Network (which he founded) to calculate the biocapacity of the planet and the demands we place on it. Calculate your own ecological footprint using this footprint calculator and compare yours with Dave’s and Erika’s. We discuss much of the information and ideas in his new book, Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget, co-written with Bert Beyers (available September 3, 2019). One of the most interesting and important is the idea that governments at every level, including cities, that continue today to invest in infrastructure designed around fossil-fuel powered transportation, will not be competitive in the new world we’re entering. Plus: A new study claims cutting beef consumption by 40% will allow us to feed a world population of 10.9 billion people. Dave has a few problems with the reporting on this story and the rationale for doing the research. He suggests, “Let’s not put heroic efforts into feeding 10.9 billion. Let’s focus our efforts on not reaching 10.9 billion.” We know having fewer children doesn’t wreck the planet. We DON’T know the unintended consequences of the next “green revolution.” LINKS: Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget by Mathis Wackernagel and Bert Beyers (pre-order the book now, publication date is September 3, 2019) Cut Beef Consumption in Half to Help Save the Earth, Says New Study Creating a Sustainable Food Future: A Menu of Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050World Resources Institute report Footprint Calculator Move the Date Solutions to accelerate the shift to one-planet living   For further exploration: Overshoot Index (2016) Past Earth Overshoot Days   Mentioned or recommended by Wackernagel: The One Planet Life  by David Thorpe The Challenge of Man’s Future by Harrison Brown The Next Hundred Years: A Discussion Prepared for Leaders of American Industry published in 1957 by Harrison Brown, James Bonner, and John Weir Invisible Walls: Why We Ignore the Damage We Inflict on the Planet — and Ourselves by Peter Seidel (According to Wackernagel, “This was such a fabulous book; I believe the first ever to so clearly lay out the psychological and cultural barriers we are up against in the transformation to sustainability.”)   Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Support this Vital Work Subscribe (free) so you don't miss an episode:

The first episode of the podcast is up! In this episode, I introduce myself and explain why I'm going on a climate diet (spoiler alert: to reduce my environmental impact!). Then I do my first weigh-in to figure out where I stand, looking at my emissions using a calculator from a German living lab I participated in last year, as well as tools from the Global Footprint Network and the Nature Conservancy. I find I'm better off than I feared, but have a lot of work to do in what I eat. More at: myclimatediet.org.

Yes, the world is overpopulated, but the problem is NOT too big to solve. In this roundtable discussion we’ve convened the “overpopulation solution team” from World Population Balance to offer a “sustainable future” scenario. The team paints a picture of the wonderful world that results from a population sized to match our planet. They enumerate key benefits to having fewer people, including more affordable housing, a welcome mat for migrants, better care and nurturing of our children, and happier parents. People would be valued more, educational opportunities improve, and we might even enjoy a 20-hour workweek.  Learn more at the World Population Balance website. LINKS: Living Planet Report 2018 – Told us we’ve lost 60% of the population of vertebrate species over the last 50 years.  IPCC Report: GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5 °C – Told us we have 12 years to cut in HALF the CO2 we’re on track to emit, to have any hope of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5˚C / 2.7˚ F.  Earth Overshoot Day - Global Footprint Network announced we had burned through a year’s worth of the Earth’s regenerative capacity by August 1, 2018.  World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Second Notice – Warned that environmental challenges – rather than being solved  – are getting worse, thanks to our intense material consumption and rapid population growth. Population Decline and the Great Economic Reversal by George Friedman, Chairman of Stratfor, a global intelligence firm

“Earth Overshoot Day” Is Now August 1st—and That’s Not Good. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water. Tensions may be increasing among Turkey, Syria, and Iraq over water. A $3 billion battery proposal by Los Angeles is raising concerns about Colorado River flows. A new study concludes that only a little more than 13 percent of oceans can truly be considered as wilderness. According to the Global Footprint Network, humans have consumed a year’s worth of resources in just 212 days. The next victim of climate change? It could be the Internet.

Did you know we are in overshoot? What does that mean, and what should we do about it? Also in this episode, which has a smaller footprint – milk, or milk alternatives like almond milk? Dana informs us that, “Eating food is one of the worst things you can do for the environment.” Are some health departments preventing bulk filling of reusable containers? Carrying reusable utensils and napkin on your travels. And choosing carefully the trash can in which to deposit your refuse. August 1, 2018 is Earth Overshoot Day. Data collected and analyzed by the Global Footprint Network tells us this is the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature begins to exceed what Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate in the entire year. If it falls anytime before December 31, it means we’re using more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate - through activity like overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than ecosystems can absorb. According to Global Footprint Network’s co-founder, Mathis Wackernagel, “Our current economies are running a Ponzi scheme with our planet…. We are borrowing the Earth’s future resources to operate our economies in the present. Like any Ponzi scheme, this works for some time. But as nations, companies, or households dig themselves deeper and deeper into debt, they eventually fall apart.” Dana and Dave interview random people to find out: Are they aware of Earth Overshoot Day? Do they know we’re in overshoot and what that is? What are their ideas for delaying the date? Check out our Overshoot Day interview video here. Please share it, and let us know what you’re doing to #movethedate. We welcome your comments, emails and tweets. And watch the GrowthBusters podcast Facebook page or Global Footprint Network’s page for the #MoveTheDate live stream on August 1 at noon U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. LINKS: Overshoot Day Website GrowthBusters Earth Overshoot Day Video Video: Earth Overshoot Day Falls on August 1, 2018 Footprint Data Solutions Share your actions Footprint calculator The Four Lifestyle Choices that Most Reduce Your Carbon Footprint (Lund University study) When It Comes to Nut Milk, What’s the Most Sustainable Option?  Is Almond Milk Bad for the Planet? Environmental & Social Impacts of Soy Benefits of Pea Milk Drink Pea Milk and Save the World: But What If The Peas are Shipped from France?

In the face of abrupt climate change, catastrophic loss of biodiversity around the globe, and rapid species decline across the board in recent decades, why are we, as a species, unable to clearly perceive the very perilous situation we find ourselves in? What is it about creating very large-scale, complex systems (technologies, cultures, societies), that makes us unable to perceive how our way of living detrimentally impacts planetary life-systems, which we rely on for our own survival and well-being? In the face of the physical reality we are forging for ourselves and all other life on this planet, what can we expect to happen in the face of these profound changes currently underway? In this segment, Dr. William Rees discusses the neuro-biological, cognitive and cultural barriers to sustainability, including human’s well-developed capacity for self-delusion. Dr. Rees is human ecologist, ecological economist, and is the originator and co-developer of the Ecological Footprint Analysis, the world’s best-known metaphor for the human "load" (the resources required of ecosystems to maintain our current mode of living) on the planet. Learn more about the Ecological Footprint concept at The Global Footprint Network website: https://www.footprintnetwork.org This is a segment of episode #125 of Last Born In The Wilderness "Marching Toward Collapse: Biophysical Limits & Our Cognitive Blindspots w/ William Rees." Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/2HGdECe Podcast website: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com Support the podcast: PATREON: www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness ONE-TIME DONATION: www.ko-fi.com/lastborninthewilderness Follow and listen: SOUNDCLOUD: www.soundcloud.com/lastborninthewilderness ITUNES: www.goo.gl/Fvy4ca GOOGLE PLAY: https://goo.gl/wYgMQc STITCHER: https://goo.gl/eeUBfS Social Media: FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/lastborninthewildernesspodcast TWITTER: www.twitter.com/lastbornpodcast INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/patterns.of.behavior

Aired Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 5:00 PM ESTWe Humans Have MORE THAN ENOUGH to Transition to an Ecological Civilization!A Conversation with Timothy Nobles, Author of MORE THAN ENOUGH“I consider myself an optimistic realist — to me, the glass isn’t 95% empty, it’s 5% full.” — Swami BeyondanandaAs a follow-up to our conversation with David Korten last week in regards to what the Chinese call “an ecological civilization”, this week’s guest Timothy Nobles challenges conventional and even unconventional wisdom by asserting:We have much more than enough capability and resources for all of us humans to live in graceful abundance, with no one who is now prosperous needing to revert to a less soul-satisfying lifestyle. Simultaneously, we have more than enough of everything we require to rapidly convert to a skillful symbiotic relationship with the Earth and with all other life forms on Earth that we can sustain for hundreds of millions of years.Whoa, wait a minute.Just about everyone else who is paying attention is lamenting how UNSUSTAINABLE our current system is, and how even the most optimistic projections conclude human society will have to live with more scarce resource. According to Global Footprint Network, we currently use the equivalent of 1.7 earths worth of resources. So where will this “graceful abundance” come from?An engineer by training, Timothy says it will come from radically reapportioning and re-purposing what we use now, on the basis of a new (or maybe old) rule for humanity: The Golden Rule.While that might sound idealistic, Timothy’s life experience is very much in the “real-dealistic” realm. He lived for ten years on The Farm, one of the largest and most effective experimental communities that emerged from the spiritual revolution of the 1960s. After leaving The Farm, he worked for many years in the R&D laboratories of the world’s largest technology companies, including IBM, Intel, and Texas Instruments. His web site is: http://www.morethanenoughnow.orgIn his playfully illustrated and well-reasoned soon-to-be-released book MORE THAN ENOUGH: How We Enroll Billions of People to Implement Global Prosperity and Restore the Earth, Timothy cheerfully and relentlessly offers plenty of evidence of our capabilities — not just as technologists, but as caring and compassionate humans. For the first time in recorded human history, he asserts, we have the means to self-organize in a “non-dominational” way … and to experience true equality and individual and societal fulfillment.Is he a hopeless hopium addict or is he on to something?Tune in and decide for yourself, this Tuesday, May 15th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.How you can support Wiki PolitikiJoin the “upwising” — join the conversation, and become a Wiki Politiki supporter: http://wikipolitiki.com/join-the-upwising/ Go ahead, PATRONIZE me! Support Wiki Politiki monthly through Patreon!

“The age of growth and the age in which growth is going to be considered a good thing is coming to an end.” The late sociologist William R. Catton was certain of this, but spent a significant portion of his professional life attempting to understand why mainstream society was reluctant to prove his point.   Catton authored the landmark book, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, published in 1980. He brought important sociological perspective to a subject dominated by biologists and physicists. He observed that our lives are built around an obsolete cultural belief system, developed when the size of human civilization had not yet outgrown the carrying capacity of the planet.   According to scientists at the Global Footprint Network, human civilization surpassed a sustainable scale (a combination of population and consumption) in the 1970s. Catton observed a lag between that reality and the dominant worldview that affects our rate of consumption – of both renewable and nonrenewable resources. Bill Catton passed away on January 5, 2015. At the time of my conversation with Bill Catton, he had just published his third book, Bottleneck: Humanity's Impending Impasse. For more information and links to Catton's work, visit http://www.conversationearth.org We're sharing some of the best episodes of Season One while we take a break, before launching a 3rd season of Conversation Earth. Vote for a 3rd season at http://tinyurl.com/ceseason3

By many measures, humans have shown themselves to be a pretty successful species. But we are living unsustainably. We are consuming more resources than the Earth can provide– we are in global ecological overshoot. The Ecological Footprint, developed by the Global Footprint Network, is a leading measure of human demand on nature, reflecting the productive area required to provide the renewable resources humanity is using and to absorb its waste. And this calculation show that every year we are effectively consuming the equivalent of 1.6 planets. In this podcast, Global Footprint Network co-founder Susan Burns talks about the power of ecological footprint- the impact of our increasing ecological deficit -and talks about her recent research integrating environment risk into sovereign credit analysis.The post Episode 4: Susan Burns | What the ecological footprint tells us appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.

Earth Overshoot Day 2016 lands on August 8, marking the date when humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year, as measured by the Global Footprint Network. For the rest of the year, we will maintain our ecological deficit by drawing down local resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere -- we will be operating in overshoot. If that's not bad enough, the exhaustion of our annual ecological budget has been moving progressively earlier every year. Stephen Watson, the Director of Corporate Engagement at WWF-International joins us to tell us more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The End of Occupy Radio   That clip you just heard was March 14th, 2012, Occupiers. Left Out became Occupy Radio, and in the four years since, we’ve kept an eye on the corporate takeover of America, and the rise of the police and surveillance states.   Join us for a final retrospective on the time Rivera and I have shared, on this final episode of Occupy Radio.   March 14th, 2012 Episode of Occupy Radio https://occupyeugenemedia.org/mediagroup/2015/03/14/occupy-radio-march-14-2012-3/   Christopher Mitchell Director of Community Broadband networks for the Institute of Local Self Reliance out of Minneapolis, Minnesota Chris is also the host of the podcast Community Broadband Bits   Community Network Map http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap Institute for Self-Reliance Community Broadband Networks: http://www.muninetworks.org/ Wikipedia Community Broadband: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_broadband FCC on the verge of killing state laws that harm community broadband: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/fcc-on-verge-of-killing-state-laws-that-harm-municipal-broadband/ Obama calls for an end to 19 state laws that harm community broadband: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/obama-calls-for-end-to-19-state-laws-that-harm-community-broadband/ ISP lobby has already won limit on public broadband in 20 states:http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/isp-lobby-has-already-won-limits-on-public-broadband-in-20-states/   Duane Elgin MBA from Wharton College Author of Voluntary Simplicity A proponent of a living universe, and a global awakening mind and the idea that we are just around the corner from massive global communication on the grassroots level. http://duaneelgin.com/ http://duaneelgin.com/about/ Great Transition Stories http://www.greattransitionstories.org/wiki/Duane_Elgin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Elgin YouTube: Duane Elgin – The Living Universe Pt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYl96iEya9E 8 Expressions of Simplicity for Healthy Living http://www.huffingtonpost.com/duane-elgin/types-of-simplicity_b_918970.html 6 Corporations that Control Your Perception https://rhymageddon.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/mediabig6/   Mary Wood Law professor, and faculty director of the Environmental Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Oregon School of Law Author of Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age We discussed the doctrine of public trust, and how deeply its roots run in our legal system. We also discussed the Our Children’s Trust court case which has reached one ruling calling for the State of Washington to protect future generations   Discovering a Legal Tool To Curb Climate Change http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/discovering-legal-tool-curb-climate-change David Bollier's Blog: Mary Wood's Crusade to Reinvigorate the Public Trust Doctrine http://bollier.org/blog/mary-wood%E2%80%99s-crusade-reinvigorate-public-trust-doctrine Huff Post: Nature's Trust Parts 1,2, & 3 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-neill/natures-trust-part-1_b_7018474.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-neill/natures-trust-part-2_b_7057158.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-neill/natures-trust-part-3_b_7119072.html Professor Mary Wood at University of Oregon Law School http://law.uoregon.edu/faculty/mwood/   Earth Overshoot: Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. is the President of the Global Footprint Network You can find them at www.footprintnetwork.org Mathis Wackernagle joins Occupy Radio this week to talk about Earth Overshoot Day. It's the day each year when the human species uses more resources than the Earth can restore. That day keeps coming earlier and earlier every year. www.overshootday.org www.footprintnetwork.org www.footprintnetwork.org/states (State of the States report). https://www.facebook.com/GlobalFootprintNetwork?fref=ts https://twitter.com/EndOvershoot https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GlobalFootprintNetwork/posts   Jeff Clements Author of the book: Corporations Are Not People Immediately, after the 2010 Citizens United ruling, author Jeff Clements published a series of predictions about the decision's impact. Three year later, his projections have come true. This week on Occupy Radio, we interview Clements about the updates to his book, Corporations Are Not People, and one thing he didn't foresee - the widespread, determined citizen opposition to corporate personhood. http://www.clementsllc.com/home/Welcome.html http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/6411:corporations-are-not-people http://freespeechforpeople.org/Corporationsarenotpeople http://corporationsarenotpeople.com/ http://corporationsarenotpeople.com/author/jeffclements/ http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-supreme-court-citizens-united-20140811-story.html   Philippe Duhamel Community Organizer for strategic nonviolent civil resistance and a contributor to numerous journals and publication on movement-building and nonviolent organizing. Frackers tried to move into Quebec’s St. Lawrence River Valley, and they were chased back out again by an activated populace. But one victory isn’t enough. With a grassroots surveillance system set up throughout the valley, the Anti-Frackers will know as soon as the industry tries to make its return.   Erica Chenoweth Co Author “Why Civil Resistance Works” Assoc Professor at Josef Korbel School of International Studies To be or not to be nonviolent . . . that is the question many of us have dealt with as we work to make change in our communities. Erica Chenoweth, coauthor of the groundbreaking book, Why Civil Resistance Works, joins us on Occupy Radio to give us some empirical facts and evidence of the power of nonviolent methods.   EricaChenoweth.Com http://www.ericachenoweth.com/ The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w Rational Insurgent http://rationalinsurgent.com/ University of Denver: Joseph Korbel School of International Studies http://www.du.edu/korbel/faculty/chenoweth.html Erica Chenoweth on Political Violence at a glance http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/about/erica-chenoweth/ Erica Chenoweth at Foreign Affairs.com http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/erica-chenoweth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Chenoweth https://twitter.com/ericachenoweth Why Civil Resistance Works http://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820 Thanks to everyone who has been a part of Occupy Radio. Keep an eye on OccupyRadio.org. We will be making it a fully searchable website full of activist information, based on hundreds of interviews with activists for social, economic, environmental, and legal justice.

Global Footprint We're often told that we consume so much that we need one and a half planets. It comes from the Global Footprint Network a think-tank that has pioneered ecological foot-printing but what does that number even mean, and is it helpful? Chocolate makes you thinner We tell the story behind the chocolate experiment designed to deliberately fool the press. Concerned about the amount of pseudo-science surrounding diet and nutrition, John Bohannon and Peter Onneken ran a trial and had the results published in an online journal, sent out a press release. While the results were correct the trial wasn't very robust but this didn't stop the story that chocolate made you thinner running in newspapers, magazines and on TV around the world. Peter and John had fooled the press and they made a documentary about it. But the experiment has sparked a debate about whether it was ethical to fool the press in this way and whether the whole project was just self-serving.

(Published on Oct 9, 2013) September 18, 2013, Hillsborough, NJ - Educators call for action and 'thinking forward' during a Sustainability Summit at Duke Farms in central New Jersey. "Something needs to be addressed right now," says Dr. Nicky Sheats, Director of the Center for Urban Environment, Thomas Edison State College. Jaimie Cloud of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education defines sustainable living as when "a society is far-seeing enough, wise enough, and flexible enough to actually contribute to the health of the systems upon which we depend." Shana Weber, Sustainability Director at Princeton University, notes that today's students are better prepared to resolve environmental issues. Keynote speaker Mathis Wackernagel, President of the Global Footprint Network, acknowledges that "a 'true' sustainable future is possible, but we must choose it." The Summit was presented by Sustainable Jersey (sustainablejersey.org), at the 2700-acre Duke Farms in Hillsborough, NJ, and attended by more than 200 educators, civic leaders and conservation activists.

(Published on Oct 3, 2013) Hillsborough, NJ, September 18, 2013. A standing-room-only forum presented by Sustainable Jersey, a nonprofit certification program, convenes 200 civic and environmental activists to redefine sustainability in the 21st century. Nearly 400 New Jersey municipalities participate in Sustainable Jersey's conservation strategies that foster energy efficiency and savings, waste reduction, water conservation, cost sharing, and other sustainable practices. These municipalities comprise 82% of the state's population. Keynote speaker Mathis Wackernagel, President of Global Footprint Network and an environmental engineer by training, suggests that living "within the means of nature is the most productive economic proposition." Margaret Waldock of the Geraldine R. Dodge foundation notes that despite community recycling, the amount of garbage that we're generating is still "higher than it's ever been." Other speakers included Randy Solomon and Donna Drewes, co-directors of Sustainable Jersey, and Andrew Bowman of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The forum's venue was Duke Farms, a 2700-acre reserve that is free and open to the public every day except Wednesdays, from 8:30 am to 6 pm.

Dr Mathis Wackernagel, President, Global Footprint Network, delivers the 2014 Hoffmann Lecture.

Dr Mathis Wackernagel, President, Global Footprint Network, delivers the 2014 Hoffmann Lecture.

LA VOCE DEL MASTER – Terza puntata di Re-post, il podcast del Master in Giornalismo Scientifico Digitale della Sissa di Trieste. Seguiteci ogni due settimane sulle pagine di Oggiscienza. Si parla spesso dell’esplorazione di Marte, ma a che punto siamo con la scoperta del Pianeta Rosso? Amedeo Balbi, astrobiologo dell’Università di Roma Tor Vergata e Paolo Bellutta, ingegnere della NASA che guida il Rover Curiosity su Marte, ci aiuteranno a fare il punto della situazione. Per la rubrica Mr Hyde (lo scienziato che non ti aspetti) abbiamo intervistato Domenico Vicinanza, scienziato e compositore che trova e mette in musica le risonanze che provengono dal mondo della ricerca. La rubrica Orwell invece ci immerge nello spirito del film "2022: i sopravvissuti" con Juan Carlos Morales della Global Footprint Network: prospettive sull’ impronta ecologica dell'uomo e l’ecostenibilità. L'articolo RE POST – Cronache marziane proviene da OggiScienza.

Getting Your Green Dream Job Nick Ellis, CEO, Bright Green Talent Liz Maw, Executive Director, Net Impact Jeff Horowitz, Founder, Avoided Deforestation Partners Peter Beadle, CEO, Green Jobs Joel Makower, Executive Editor, GreenBiz.com; Author, Strategies for the Green Economy – Moderator Want a green job? INFORUM will tell you how to get it. In an increasingly green society, eco-friendly jobs are popping up everywhere. You don’t have to be an eco-expert to take advantage of this new market. Whether you’re just entering the workforce or looking to transition into a green career, our panel of experts will give you the ins and outs of finding a green-collar job. Following the panel discussion, INFORUM’s job fair features a wide variety of businesses, organizations, government sectors and schools that can help you take the next step in the green job market. The companies and organizations tabling at the job fair portion of the program are: Bay Area Air Quality Management District; Beautiful Communities; California Environmental Associates; California Public Utilities Commision; CleanTech Human Capital; Global Footprint Network; GoodGuide; Green Career Central; Green Jobs Network; Green MBA; ICF Jones & Stokes; Presidio School of Management; Saatchi & Saatchi S; San Francisco Department of the Environment; SF State University – Graduate Business Programs; Solar Living Institute; SolarStaff Inc; Solar Richmond; Sustainable Spaces; The Cassillon Group; TransForm; USGBC NCC - Emerging Green Builders. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on January 26, 2009

Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., is co-creator of the concept of the ecological footprint and Executive Director of the Global Footprint Network. He is also an author and/or contributor to over fifty peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles and reports, and various books on sustainability that focus on the question of embracing limits and developing metrics for sustainability including Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, Sharing Nature's Interest, and World Wildlife Fund's International's Living Planet Report. He previously served as the director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in Oakland, CA, and directed the Centre for Sustainability Studies /Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad in Mexico, which he still advises. Wackernagel is also an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.The goal of the Global Footprint Network is to advance the science of sustainability. It is an accounting tool that looks at how many ecologic resources we have and how much we use to feed ourselves, absorb our wastes, house our buildings, etc. Calculated in acres, it asks the question "How many biologically active acres does it take to produce what you personally consume or your country consumes?". This is then compared to how many resources are available in your country, region and the world. Doing this we can see to what extent we use resources within the limits of what the earth, or particular region can renew. The Global Footprint Network has a web-based "footprint calculator" for people figure their own personal footprint.In a world of ecological constraints, ecological efficiency becomes increasingly important. People need to understand the interconnected nature of our daily choices and behavior and begin to reduce their footprint and use resources more efficiently. Wackernagel provides a concise overview of how this concept of ecological assets and liabilities, along with efficient resource use, is beginning to change the way individuals, local communities and nations are now planning for the future. He calls for true honesty about our footprints and their implications, including the example of his own somewhat large footprint created by his global consultation and educational activities. His ultimate goal, and the Global Footprint Network's main mission, is to build bridges between government, business, NGO's and academia-- to have a common understanding and language of our planetary resource constraints and how to live within them.Recorded at the Ecocity World Summit in San Francisco, April 2008

Terre Verde explores the concept of our "Ecological Footprint" with Mathis Wackernagel of the Global Footprint Network, Ann Hancock, a Sonoma-county based sustainability educator, and Greg van Mechelen of the Berkeley Eco-House. The post Terra Verde – August 6, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.