Introduction: Humanity’s Ecological Footprint

over the past 11 years we have developed a unique angle on tackling the challenges and also have access to the global community of 27 thousand problem solvers the below defined 11 problems (or rather domains of significant sustainability challenges) are interconnected and therefore can be hardly narrowly defined within each of them, there is focus on what kind of impact the solutions will have on education, innovation, startups, jobs generation, services, poverty eradication, or even other pressing problems such as solving the war conflicts and other societal and economic implications humanity’s ecological footprint exceeds earth’s biocapacity our planet’s biocapacity is the ability of its ecosystems to regenerate it is the underlying currency of all living systems on earth ecological footprint accounts document that humanity overuses our planet by at least 75%, the equivalent to living off 1 75 earths the global ecological footprint and biocapacity the global ecological footprint and biocapacity breaking down the ecological footprint grazing land footprint measures the demand for grazing land to raise livestock for meat, dairy, leather and wool products forest product footprint measures the demand for forests to provide fuel wood, pulp and timber products fishing grounds footprint measures the demand for marine and inland water ecosystems needed to restock the harvested seafood and support aquaculture cropland footprint measures the demand for land for food and fiber, feed for livestock, oil crops and rubber built up land footprint measures the demand for biologically productive areas covered by infrastructure, including roads, housing and industrial structures water footprint is the total volume of fresh water used, directly and indirectly, to produce goods and services consumed by an individual, community, or business carbon footprint measures carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production these emissions are converted into forest areas needed to sequester the emissions not absorbed by oceans it accounts for forests’ varying rates of carbon sequestration depending on the degree of human management, the type and age of forests, emissions from forest wildfires and soil build up and loss humanity's ecological footprint by land use and by activities humanity's ecological footprint by land use and by activities 11 problems biodiversity & animal welfare docid\ kogu7glnb683fbbzks5ai climate crisis docid\ ik 5g zsy07vexgy4kd6g pollution docid\ lsdwgbsbcazfd ovh5x98 energy & industry docid\ eky9kjrvkwore5lq2wy2m agriculture & food docid\ tkxuekssuqz7eqalgrra3 water docid\ lhfguirixc0otlxykbjzz livable places & architecture docid\ qvedf7nypd da3o6rlzgd mobility docid\ z9rp mhuxibtcadn4fom6 fashion docid 11knup4yqwrfvwog wqa0 education and future of impact work docid\ g8sbfeun3jy3h0bvdshx tourism & white winters docid\ lyph1dukgrltmaxuvje5s