What is Earth Overshoot Day?
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Continuing Education 11-Continuing Education |
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Environmental Engineering Geological Engineering Green Design and Sustainable Engineering International Engineering Education |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Global Footprint Network Nicole Freeling |
| Description: | Details on how Earth Overshoot Day is calculated, along with a newsletter and related information. "Earth Overshoot Day marks an unfortunate milestone: the day in which we exhaust our ecological budget for the year. Once we pass this day, humanity will have demanded all the ecological services – from filtering CO2 to producing the raw materials for food – that nature can provide this year. From that point until the end of the year, we meet our ecological demand by liquidating resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Every year, Global Footprint Network calculates nature's supply in the form of biocapacity, the amount of resources the planet generates, and compares that to human demand: the amount it takes to produce all the living resources we consume and absorb our carbon dioxide emissions. Earth Overshoot Day, a concept devised by U.K.-based new economics foundation, marks the day when demand on ecological services begins to exceed the renewable supply." Image caption: Earth overshoot day over time. |
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| Keywords: | global warming sustainable engineering Co2 green house gases |
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Video: What is Ecological Overshoot? |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(b) Design and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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Class activity could be arranged at overshoot day. Earlier in the year, it could be used as an exercise in analysis to predict to overshoot day. |
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Medium |
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Low |
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| Publication Date: | August 2011 |
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Unknown |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/earth_overs |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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CARES
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