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Today's the Day We Overdraw Our Accounts
Thanks to Deborah Byrd blogging at EarthSky for the heads-up that today is Earth Overshoot Day. The day when we overdraw our ecological bank account.
This year it falls on 25 September. Starting today, we're utilizing resources at a rate faster than what the planet can regenerate in a calendar year.
Which means for the next 97 days, we're using up our capital investment. You know, the air, waters, oceans, forests, species, topsoil that keep us alive. The problem's called ecological overshoot.
We first went into overshoot in 1986, according to the Global Footprint Network. Before then we consumed resources and produced carbon dioxide at a rate consistent with what the planet could produce and reabsorb in a year. By 1996 we were using 15 percent more resources in a year than the planet could supply. Earth Overshoot Day fell in November that year.
Now we're now stripping resources 40 percent faster than the planet can produce them.
'Course a thrifty Homo sapiens would batten down the hatches, tighten the belt, and shift to extreme emergency savings mode. Unless he or she didn't really feel overdrawn? Like everything was still super affordable and super expendable and super infinite?
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Let's Not Recover
The mantra "too big to fail" is at the root of our current crises—both economic and ecological.
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John Schellnhuber's Third Industrial Revolution, a New Approach to Addressing the Hazards of Global Warming
One of the topical lectures offered at this year's annual meeting of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), wrapping today in San Francisco, sees John Schellnhuber expanding on his 12 global warming tipping points (Mother Jones Nov/Dec 2006). Schellnhuber's impeccable credentials (founder of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, James Martin Fellow at Oxford University, Chief Government Adviser on climate...
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Cooling the Planet for Free
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The Most Important Number on Earth
We're way past the carbon tipping point. It's time to freak out—and get to work.
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What's Your Water Footprint?
Your new jeans cost the planet 2,866 gallons of precious H2O.
Eco-makeover Challenge
We are currently casting families, homes and businesses in the tri-state area for the third season of WA$TED!, an eco-makeover show on Planet Green. We are looking for candidates that want to go green but haven't made the leap - or maybe you want to go green but need help convincing your family members or co-workers!
The eco-makeover involves lifestyle tips, cool gadgets and products, superficial changes to the home/office and behavioral changes for your household/business. The goal is to reduce your carbon footprint and help you save money. And there is a cash prize for families/businesses that successfully “green up” their act.
We are looking for candidates in the tri-state area. If you are interested please contact us ASAP!
Thank you,
Kelly Harper
917.606.3841
greenhomes@liontv.us
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