{"id":11013,"date":"2015-08-14T08:27:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11013"},"modified":"2015-08-14T08:27:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:27:49","slug":"earth-overshoot-day-and-not-for-profit-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11013","title":{"rendered":"Earth Overshoot Day and Not-For-Profit Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/postgrowth.org\/earth-overshoot-day-and-not-for-profit-enterprise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Overshoot Day and Not-For-Profit Enterprise<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In 2015, 13\u00a0August is Earth Overshoot Day. The day marks the estimated calendar date when humanity\u2019s demand on the planet\u2019s ecological services (which produce renewable resources and assimilate wastes) outstrips what the Earth can supply. This means that for the rest of the year, we are taking more than is regenerated, operating in Overshoot. Last year, Earth Overshoot Day was August 19<sup>th<\/sup>. We first went into Overshoot in the late 1970s, and since then the day has crept ever earlier on the calendar. This means we are using the ecological resources of just over 1.5 Earths.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting the challenge of providing for all humanity\u2019s needs within the limits of what our Earth can provide will require a radical restructuring of the global economy. In this post I will discuss how a post-growth economy based around not-for-profit enterprise can help us get to One Planet Living.<span id=\"more-6638\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before we get into that, though, what is Earth Overshoot Day all about? It\u2019s based on the concept of Ecological Footprinting, which is both a science-based sustainability metric and also a sustainability communication tool developed by the\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/en\/index.php\/GFN\/\">Global Footprint Network<\/a><\/u>. You can read the methodological details\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/en\/index.php\/GFN\/page\/methodology\">here<\/a><\/u>, but the basic idea is that the Ecological Footprint is the amount of productive space needed to provide the ecological resources and absorb the waste of an individual, a city, a business, a country or the whole world, expressed in\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/en\/index.php\/GFN\/page\/glossary\/#globalhectare\">global hectares<\/a><\/u>.\u00a0 An Ecological Footprint is made up of cropland, pasture, fishing grounds, forest, land built-up with buildings or infrastructure and the land needed to absorb carbon emissions, with this last one usually accounting for at least half the footprint.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Overshoot Day and Not-For-Profit Enterprise In 2015, 13\u00a0August is Earth Overshoot Day. The day marks the estimated calendar date when humanity\u2019s demand on the planet\u2019s ecological services (which produce renewable resources and assimilate wastes) outstrips what the Earth can supply. This means that for the rest of the year, we are taking more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3818,8077,6720,3197,641,769],"class_list":["post-11013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-earth-overshoot-day","tag-ecological-footprint","tag-overshoot","tag-post-growth","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11014,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11013\/revisions\/11014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}