Tag Archives: Earth Overshoot Day

As the public environmental awareness and the media’s interest in sustainability and natural resources exploitation increases, crucial global issues get a higher visibility. For instance, we hear about the ecological footprint more and more often. But what is it? What’s its purpose? And how is it calculated? What is it? The ecological footprint is an […]

On August 22nd we are going to cross the point, where one planet was enough for us. Our annual demand on nature’s renewable resources and services exceeded what Earth can regenerate over the year. This day was named as Earth Overshoot Day 2020. Global Footprint network developed the Ecological Footprint metric to measure this problem. Ecological […]