How many planets does it take to support your lifestyle?
That’s what Global Footprint Network is helping people to discover with their new global footprint calculator. The release of the calculator coincides with “Earth Overshoot Day” – which is the day each year by which humans have used up more from nature than the planet can renew in the whole year. For 2017 Earth Overshoot Day is August 2, the earliest date yet. This is bad news, but we can take action to ensure it doesn’t keep moving earlier each year.
Along with the calculator, GFN has included solutions and helpful information about how to reduce your own carbon footprint.
Here at GoKid reducing our negative impact on the environment is a topic close to our hearts. Our goal is not only to make parents’ lives easier, and to save people time, but also to get extra cars off the road and reduce emissions in both your local and the global environment.
The Overshoot Day calculator is a helpful reminder that we can all be doing better in many ways. Have a look at your own footprint, and see what you might want to change.
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