Ecological Footprint Initiative Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Wed, 13 May 2026 15:08:05 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Earth Overshoot Day arrives early with the flow of trade playing a large role /euc/news-story/earth-overshoot-day-arrives-early-with-the-flow-of-trade-playing-a-large-role/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:09:42 +0000 https://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=news-story&p=49376 By Sandra McLean | July 22, 2025 TORONTO, July 22, 2025 â€“ Earth Overshoot Day (July 24) is more than a week early this year resulting from humanity’s growing ecological footprint amid trade wars and tariffs, which play a potential role in the ecological footprint of Canada and many others, says Eric Miller, director of the Ecological Footprint […]

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]]> 91ÑÇÉ«-produced data helps to tell impactful stories /euc/research-spotlight/york-produced-data-helps-to-tell-impactful-stories/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:06:47 +0000 https://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=16153 Fifty years ago the Club of Rome called for a transition from growth to equilibrium, as they demonstrated through The Limits to Growth that humanity could not sustain another hundred  years of growth in material consumption, pollution, and population.  Since then, humanity’s Ecological Footprint has doubled and overshot the planet’s carrying capacity. 91ÑÇɫ’s Ecological […]

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]]> Measuring and managing Canada's use of the Earth's regenerative carrying capacity /euc/research-spotlight/measuring-and-managing-canadas-use-of-the-earths-regenerative-carrying-capacity/ Fri, 09 Apr 2021 20:10:00 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=5173 The Canadian and global challenge of living within the Earth's carrying capacity requires robust measures of this capacity and its use by humans to meaningfully inform policy. Currently, Canada does not employ any such accounting system to monitor transition towards a carbon neutral future. Various measures and measurement systems are used to quantify carrying capacity […]

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]]> Developing the Ecological Footprint Research Initiative /euc/research-project/developing-the-ecological-footprint-research-initiative/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:50:00 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/research-project/developing-the-ecological-footprint-research-initiative/ Co-Principal Investigators: Martin Bunch and Peter Victor. Funding: SSHRC Insight Development Grant/SSHRC Partnership Grant. Term: 2020-. The Ecological Footprint Initiative is a partnership between the Global Footprint Network and 91ÑÇÉ« researchers who are working to enhance the accounting methodology and improve data on which the concept of ecological footprint is based. The goal is for […]

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]]> Poetic musings on life during pandemic /euc/research-spotlight/poetic-musings-on-life-during-pandemic/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:59:36 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=863 Between 2009 and 2015, FES/DIGHR postdoctoral  fellow, Mark Terry, produced feature films for the United Nations (UN) reporting on the climate research in the polar regions: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning and The Polar Explorer, both films back-to-back winners of the Audience Choice Award at the American Conservation Film Festival. The films broke new […]

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