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S P R A W L and Sustainability Roundtable: Land Use and the New Budget Realities
On May 5th, 10:00am - 12:00pm, RP and San Francisco Foundation Present Sustainability Roundtable Session #3. Sprawl is a major challenge to planning and sustainability efforts in metropolitan areas throughout the US, and particularly in California. Current land use and tax policies in tandem with the tight economy will increase municipalities’ dependence on land use for revenue. As planners, residents, and workers address historical inequities, new budget realities are likely to exacerbate the historical inequities that have so shaped our cities. Our Roundtable will provide a forum for professionals to tease out the core tensions surrounding urban sprawl in the context of creating a more sustainable and equitable infrastructure.
Download New Household Ecological Footprint Spreadsheet
Want to use a more detailed household Ecological Footprint calculator? You can now download this new Excel spreadsheet for more detailed consumption categories, including recycling, energy use, and even how much coffee you drink.
Mathis Wackernagel Receives the Pacific Industrial and Busiess Association's 2003 Sustainability Award
The Pacific Industrial and Business Association (PIBA) awarded its 2003 Sustainability Award to Redefining Progress Sustainability Program Director Mathis Wackernagel. PIBA presented the award to Wackernagel during a ceremony held at the organization's Silicon Valley Conference in Foster City, Calif.
"I'm honored by the award, and thrilled in particular that it's coming from a business association that is taking the bold step of recognizing global limits," said Wackernagel. "It gives me hope to see more and more people recognizing that we need to live within the limits of the planet in order to secure not only our livelihoods, but also a positive business climate in the future."
Click here to read the media release.
Redefining Progress Symposium at American Association for the Advancement of Science
Redefining Progress organized a symposium on February 14th as part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Denver, Colo.
The symposium, called "Tracking Overshoot: Humanity's
Ecological Footprint on the Earth," included speakers Mathis Wackernagel
from Redefining Progress, Robert Jarrett from the Army Environmental Policy
Institute, and Richard Norgaard from the University of
California-Berkeley.
For more information visit the AAAS website and select the Challenging and Changing Nature track to see a synopsis of the event and presenter abstracts.
President Bush's Climate Change Plan Violates Key Principles of Just Climate Change Policy
The Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, an effort by 28 justice, religious and advocacy groups, finds that the climate change policy outlined today by President Bush violates key principles of just climate change policy (download the 10 Principles of Just Climate Change Policy in PDF by clicking here). Representatives from U.S. communities most affected by global warming blast the Bush Administration's latest attempt to disguise action on this pressing issue.
"The President's voluntary plan flies in the face of the first and most important principle of just climate policy: it will not stop cooking the planet," said EJCC co-chair Dr. Beverly Wright, who also directs the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Xavier University in New Orleans. "During the 1990s, the United States has adopted a number of voluntary approaches to global warming that have led to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions of 14 percent between 1990 and 2000."
Other Links: | Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative |
| 10 Principles of Just Climate Change Policy | Media Release |
New Report Outlines the Ecological Footprint of 146 Nations
Redefining Progress' Sustainability Program has released its latest Ecological Footprint of Nations report that outlines the ecological impact of 146 of the world's nations.
The issue brief shows to what extent a nation can support its resource consumption with its available ecological capacity. It also illustrates the degree to which a nation could reproduce its consumption at a global level. The issue brief also outlines the significant improvements and refinements made to the Ecological Footprint accounts since last year's report.
Other Links: | Download Report in pdf Format | Media Release |
| Donate To Support This Work | Sustainability Program |
November 2002 Redefining Progress E-Newsletter
Redefining Progress released its latest on-line newsletter on November 20, 2002. Click here to see it.
Ecological Footprint Improvements and Datasheets
You can find a sample of our newest Ecological Footprint national accounts, and explanations of
the most recent methodological improvements by clicking here. If you are interested in purchasing country Ecological Footprint data sheets, click here.
Redefining Progress Releases Report Outlining Sustainable Agriculture and Common Asset Stewardship Success Stories
Redefining Progress today released a report, Sustainable Agriculture and Common Assets: Stewardship Success Stories, which profiles farmers who are utilizing sustainable agriculture practices. These practices provide benefits to farmers and their communities while also protecting natural common assets now and into the future.
The report is available for download in pdf format. Click here to read the media release.
Redefining Progress Hosts Sustainable Agriculture Roundtable on October 15
Redefining Progress will host a sustainability roundtable about "Sustainable Agriculture After the Farm Bill" in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, October 15. We hope you will join leading advocates working for change in California food systems for a discussion about current food and farm policy issues.
For more information, please click here.
BBC News On-Line Features Ecological Footprint Quiz
On Monday, August 19, BBC News On-Line launched a special six-part series about sustainable development in preparation for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). This special series features Redefining Progress's Ecological Footprint Quiz.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz is a scientifically based tool that allows individuals to calculate the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to produce the resources they use and absorb the wastes they produce.
Click here to learn more about the Ecological Footprint. You can also subscribe to receive e-mail announcements of Ecological Footprint updates and information.
Other Links: | Ecological Footprint | Subscribe To Our Newsletters |
| Donate To Support This Work | Sustainability Program |
| Recent Ecological Footprint Scientific Paper (PNAS) |
Redefining Progress Hosts Sustainability Roundtable on Monday, Sept. 9
Redefining Progress and the International Forum on Globalization hosted "After Johannesburg: Results, Questions, and Implications from the World Summit on Sustainable Development". This roundtable discussion focused on the recently completed World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).
For more information, or to hear audio recordings of the panel presentations, please click here.
Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy
Humanity's use of natural resources, or Ecological Footprint, has exceeded the regenerative capacity of the Earth since the 1980s. The finding is outlined in a paper to be published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Redefining Progress Sustainability Program Director Mathis Wackernagel is the lead author of the paper, "Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy." He and his colleagues reached this conclusion by comparing humanity's demand on the environment to the earth's supply of bioproductive areas over the past 40 years.
Links: | Redefining Progress Media Release | Paper Information |
| Media Coverage | Paper Purchase Info |
National Geographic Magazine Features Ecological Footprint
The July 2001 issue of National Geographic features Redefining Progress' Ecological Footprint in the Earthpulse section near the front of the magazine. You can learn more about the Ecological Footprint, and measure your own, by following this link. You can see the version that appeared in the Brazilian edition of the magazine by following this link.
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