On August 21, it is Earth Overshoot Day: the day of the year in which human demand on the biosphere exceeds what it can regenerate. By last Saturday, humanity has demanded all the ecological services that nature can regenerate this year. For the rest of the year, we will be financing our consumption on credit. "We know we are far from living within the means of one planet. The good news is, much of the technology we have to begin to address this problem is available and it is open source: things like compact urban design, energy-efficient housing, ecological tax reform, removal of resource subsidies, safe and affordable family planning, bicycles, low-meat diets, and life-cycle costing", said Global Footprint Network President Mathis Wackernagel.
Last year, the Overshoot Day occurred almost a month later on September 25th, and we also wrote about it here in this blog. See the entry here. At the time, we promised more information on how we plan to minimize the ecological footprint of the CHAMP project. Since, we have drafted guidelines on Low-carbon project management to our project stakeholders.
