This Saturday, August 21st, Global Footprint Network tells us, is the day we will reach Earth Overshoot Day: the day when human demand on nature surpasses what nature can renewably supply. According to data from Global Footprint Network, headed by Skoll social entrepreneurs Susan Burns and Mathis Wackernagel, as of August 21st, humanity will have [...]

Just in time for Earth Day 2010, Global Footprint Network with partner Earth Day Network, have expanded their Footprint Calculator to include geographically-specific data from 10 new countries, including Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, India and China. Global Footprint Network is headed by 2007 Skoll social entrepreneurs Mathis Wackernagel and Susan Burns, who created and launched the calculator [...]

Skoll CEO Sally Osberg reports from Copenhagen:
Just a couple of highlights from the Climate Leaders’ Summit:

-Leadership on climate change - both moral and real - is coming from the sub-nation state levels and small countries.
-President Nasheed of the Maldives was articulate and inspiring. “No negotiating with Mother Nature and the laws of physics.”  On the [...]

The Skoll Foundation, along with a  number of Skoll social entrepreneurs and partners, will be participating in the Copenhagen meetings on climate change later this month.  Reflecting the high caliber of environmental leaders in the Skoll portfolio, some 10 Skoll social entrepreneurs and/or their organizations will be at Copenhagen: ACORE, Amazon Conservation Team, BioRegional Development [...]

Global Footprint Network, co-founded by 2007 Skoll social entrepreneurs Mathis Wackernagel and Susan Burns, has just published new data showing that we’re up to 1.5 earths in terms of humanity’s global ecological footprint.  What this means is that, given current consumption and waste statistics, we need a planet and a half to provide enough resources [...]

Today, September 25, is Earth Overshoot Day.  Calculated by Global Footprint Network, co-founded by Skoll social entrepreneurs Mathis Wackernagel and Susan Burns, this is the day each year when “humanity begins living beyond its ecological means. Beyond that day, we move into the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, utilizing resources at a rate faster than [...]

Skoll social entreprenuer Global Footprint Network has just co-published, along with the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, the Living Planet Report 2008 (PDF).  Sober reading.  According to the report,  three quarters of the world’s people now live in nations that are ecological debtors, where national consumption has outstripped their country’s biological [...]

India has reached a stage where it now requires two Indias to meet the resource and waste absorption requirements of its citizens, according to new research from Global Footprint Network, a 2007 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.    While the ecological footprint in India is low on a per capita basis, the [...]

I’m in New York this week at the Clinton Global Initiative, along with Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg and other members of the Skoll Foundation team here to work with and support the 20 Skoll social entrepreneurs at the event.  It’s a big week in New York, with the U.N. General Assembly also kicking off.   [...]