Global Footprint Network Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:48:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 United States and Qatar Named Environmental Plunderers on Earth Overshoot Day https://www.greenoptimistic.com/united-states-qatar-and-china-named-environmental-plunderers-on-earth-overshoot-day-20130820/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/united-states-qatar-and-china-named-environmental-plunderers-on-earth-overshoot-day-20130820/#respond Wed, 21 Aug 2013 01:50:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=40872 On August 20th, Global Footprint Network, an international think-tank, named the United States and Qatar environmental plunderers, declaring that the two countries have already exhausted a year’s budget of natural resources. Calling the event Earth Overshoot Day, Global Footprint Network stated that their metrics determined that in the past eight months, both countries have continued their […]

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