The Sustainability Agenda

The Sustainability Agenda


Episode 4: Susan Burns | What the ecological footprint tells us

September 07, 2016

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...