A burning Earth held in a person’s cupped hands. Royalty Free Image from Pixabay We have all experienced the consequences of living beyond our means. That extravagant night out on Jul… Read More

Newest edition of National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts reports trends of the world and over 180 countries up to 2022. GENEVA, June 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — August 2nd marks thi… Read More

Germany has already completely used up its resource budget for the year, almost eight months too early. Despite the economic slowdown the Russian invasion of Ukraine is consuming far more… Read More

The Power of Possibility web platform launches today to highlight many proven solutions to build resource security and combat climate change. , /PRNewswire/ -- Earth Overshoot Day… Read More

You’ve probably heard the terms ecological footprint, environmental footprint or eco footprint before. Although these expressions are very important to preserve the health of our plane… Read More

Did you know that? According to the 2022 edition of the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts the mother Earth now requires one year and eight months to regenerate what humans consume… Read More

Summary of major environmental-change categories expressed as a percentage change relative to the baseline given in the text. Red indicates the percentage of the category that is damaged… Read More

People use significantly more natural resources than the planet can safely sustain. A new study suggests that the situation may lead to ecological poverty, Sciencealert reported. When scient… Read More

As I was reading Matthew Yglesias' piece "The Case for Adding 672 Million More Americans," the Soviet-era designation of Mother Heroine, initiated by Joseph Stalin in 1944, came to mind. St… Read More

Those who raise the spectre of degrowth in the world need convincing on regrowth, involving nature and Gandhian principles In a world that has reached unprecedented levels of aggregate we… Read More

Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire: Desolation (1836)Drought turned the surrounding woodland into fuel, strong winds fanned the flames and in just a few hours this week fired consumed the G… Read More

Yesterday, the second of August, was Earth Overshoot Day for 2017. This date “marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds… Read More

Understanding Ecological Footprint Human activities utilize resources and produces waste. As the human population increases, the global consumption and utilization of resources increases. Th… Read More

¿Es Cuba?*  ¿¿O …, Es el Mundo??   (Pavel Martinka’s draft of an essay written after his "recent" (2006) visit to Cuba: Stories for his children a… Read More

Every other year, the World Wildlife Fund publishes the Living Planet Report, which charts trends in the world’s ecosystem biodiversity and the human ecological footprint. The most rec… Read More