2006 Annual Report Letter from Our Executive Director

2006 Annual Report Letter from our Executive Director

Why We Do What We Do

People sometimes ask me what motivates our work at Global Footprint Network. I think we all share a desire to live in a healthy world: a world that works for everyone and advances human well-being.

We want to transform the way people think economies have to operate—gobbling up every possible resource, with little concern for the world’s most challenged populations, for impoverished, struggling nations, for dwindling biodiversity, and for our collective fate.

This is why at Global Footprint Network we are committed to creating a world where everyone can live well, within the means of one planet.

We envision a world where heads of state make safeguarding resources a top priority, where national policy is informed by ecological reality, and where citizens everywhere benefit. We envision a world whose leaders understand the risk of inflated Footprints, and have the tools and data to manage their ecological assets sustainably.

This is a future where human demand on nature is monitored as closely as the stock market. A time when designers are shaping products and cities and buildings that have one-planet Footprints. A place where humans prosper and development succeeds because we are finally recognizing ecological constraints and using innovation to advance more than just the economic bottom-line.

This future is possible. Thankfully we have the tools and the foresight to make it real.

At Global Footprint Network ‘making it real’ is our work, and our vision. During the past three years of building our organization we have learned that around the world people share our goals, and many of them have joined us.

Today, together with our 75 global partners—governments, businesses, universities, and non-governmental organizations on five continents—we are actively applying the Footprint to practical projects and continually advancing the Footprint tool.

Inside this report we will tell you more about where, how, and with whom we are working to facilitate change. We will highlight some of our most important progress, and we will sketch out the road ahead.

Thank you for taking the time to read our report.

Warm regards,

Mathis Wackernagel good questions, great answers

around the world recognize the reality of ecological Our vision is to support the emergence of sustainable limits and begin to use tools like the Ecological nations with sustainable economies, and thus to Footprint to make decisions that are consistent with support a healthy planet. those limits. In the three years since the inception of Global Our Response Footprint Network, the Ecological Footprint has reached new levels of influence faster than we could Global Footprint Network is dedicated to making have imagined. 2006 has been a year of foundation ecological limits central to decision-making everywhere building and growth for us, with two national by advancing the Ecological Footprint. governments engaging in major Ecological Footprint reviews, the near doubling of our partner network, the Together with 75 partner organizations from first international Ecological Footprint conference, and around the world, we coordinate research, develop the release of our first methodological standards. methodological standards, and provide decision- makers with robust resource accounts that create an Our vision is quickly becoming a reality as ecological balance sheet for tracking the supply of and decision-makers worldwide use the Footprint to How can we all live well and live within months to regenerate what humanity uses in a year. demand for our planet’s resources. the means of one planet? This global “ecological overshoot” is depleting catalyze change—from the national Governments the natural capital on which both human life and of Switzerland and Japan commissioning ground- We believe that advancing the Footprint requires breaking Footprint studies to Global Footprint We at Global Footprint Network believe that this is biodiversity depend. engagement with national governments, and achieving the research question of the 21st century. If we are Network being invited to participate in the UNEP national engagement requires strong national resource 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership. From retail serious about sustainable development, there is no way The consequences of this environmental pressure are accounts, active local and business applications, and around this question. If we do not live within the means already evident. Collapsing fisheries, loss of forest developers in Australia using the Footprint to meet their public demand for change. Thus we focus on national environmental impact reduction targets to international of planet Earth, sustainability will remain elusive. cover, depletion of fresh water systems, accumulation Footprint analyses and applications, but also work with of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the build- development agencies addressing the resource-poverty and support our partners in influencing all levels of linkage in Africa, the Footprint is informing and With global ecosystems degrading at an ever up of wastes and pollutants are just a few noticeable decision-making. influencing some of the most important debates and increasing rate, calls for ‘sustainability’ and examples. If continued, global overshoot will ecological decisions being made around the world. ‘sustainable development’ have become louder and permanently reduce the Earth’s biological capacity, more urgent. Managing for sustainability will be leading to ecological collapse and increased human impossible, however, without tools that allow us to suffering. Humanity’s ecological Footprint account for our demand on, and supply of, ecological resources. While these trends affect us all, they have a 1.40 Built-up land disproportionate impact on the poor, who cannot Nuclear energy CO 2 from fossil fuels Humanity’s total “Humanity is living off its ecological credit afford to purchase imported resources when local Fishing ground ecological Footprint supplies are in decline. To reverse this trend it 1.20 Forest card and can only do this by liquidating is imperative that individuals and institutions all Grazing land the planet’s ecological assets.” Cropland Footprint 1.00

- Mathis Wackernagel, hs Executive Director, Global Footprint Network rt 0.80 The Ecological Footprint is a resource accounting tool Resources that makes sustainability measurable by comparing Waste 0.60 human demand on the biosphere to the biosphere’s number of ea ability to regenerate itself (Figure 1).

At the global level, Footprint analysis finds that 0.40 humanity is now consuming more than the Earth can produce. Human economies operate as if ecological Biocapacity 0.20 resources are limitless, without recognizing that ever- increasing consumption is undermining the Earth’s Figure 1 - The Ecological Footprint measures human ability to provide for us all. Current Footprint data demand on the biosphere (top arrow) and compares it 0.00 tell us that it now takes the Earth one year and three to the biosphere’s ability to renew itself (bottom arrow). 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 What is Ten-in-Ten? Expanding impact In 2005, we launched our “Ten-inTen” Visualizing Ten-in-Ten: Leaders in Footprint Governance campaign with the specific goal of Targeted Action: Ten-in-Ten institutionalizing the Ecological Footprint in at least ten key nations by 2015. Our aim is European Union To gain the greatest leverage, we target decision-makers in to have ecological accounting be given as much weight as economic accounting, with large institutions and those who have significant influence United Kingdom We are working to make the Ecological Footprint a key sustainability indicator for the over the allocation of financial resources. We focus our the Ecological Footprint as prominent a metric European Union (EU) and its 25 member countries through collaborations with the initiatives on multi-national agencies, national and local as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This will The United Kingdom: European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen. governments, and influential businesses. allow governments to 1) recognize the value of DEFRA, the UK’s Ministry of This spring, a group within Eurostat, the statistical arm of the European Commission, their ecological assets, 2) systematically account Environment, is conducting prepared a positive internal review of the EU’s National Footprint Accounts, and the Our Ten-in-Ten Campaign represents the practical for and manage them, 3) identify the risks of a second assessment of European Commission selected the Ecological Footprint as a key biodiversity indicator expression of this theory of change: building national ecological deficits and 4) measure tangible the Ecological Footprint for their 2010 biodiversity targets. This fall, DG Environment, the EU body responsible commitment in ten key countries, in ten years, to progress towards long-term sustainability. in response to the Prime for environmental policy, initiated a study on how to use the Footprint. institutionalize ecological accounting and to take Minister Tony Blair’s call to responsibility for ending ecological overshoot. shift the UK towards a ‘One Canada Planet Economy.’ One key strategy of the Ten-in-Ten campaign In Canada we are working with colleagues to integrate the Footprint Switzerland completed a scientific is to encourage independent third party Wales has already adopted into the Canadian Index of Well-being (CIW). This fall, we produced a review of the Swiss National reviews of the National Footprint Accounts, the Ecological Footprint as a CIW: Ecological Footprint Fact Sheet as part of an upcoming report on Footprint Accounts in 2006 and will the data set that underlies the Ecological national indicator. sustainability indicators. In 2007 we will publish a Canadian Living Planet incorporate the Footprint into the Footprint of 152 nations. National reviews Germany Report with WWF Canada, and we are engaged with the City of Calgary, a national sustainability plan in 2007. Additionally, , allow us to improve the accounts’ data and Ireland Finland new partner, on a city-level Footprint project. All these initiatives are paving , and methodology so that the Ecological Footprint the way for engaging the Canadian national government in Footprinting. are conducting partial remains a relevant and robust tool for setting reviews of their National public policy. In this way, progress in Ten-in- Footprint Accounts. Ten is an indicator of success for the Footprint, and 2006 has been a formative year for this long-term, ambitious campaign.

The Footprint is already informing environmental policy in Japan. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment has incorporated the Ecological Footprint into its national Basic Environmental Plan, and in the fall of 2006, the Ministry Japan is conducting agreed to work with Global Footprint Network to conduct a National Footprint a review of Japan’s National Footprint Accounts. Global Accounts review and Footprint Network will also be provinding technical assistance has incorporated the and training to the Ministry and other Japanese organizations Ecological Footprint interested in using the Footprint to inform their work. into the nation’s Basic Environmental Plan. The Footprint is on track to becoming central to sustainability policy and decision-making in Switzerland. In 2006 the Swiss government commissioned a full scientific review of the Swiss National Footprint Accounts. The review was carried out by INFRAS, a leading Swiss policy research institute, and the Footprint report was published by the Swiss Federal Office for We are meeting with Statistics. Swiss government officials will include the Footprint ministers of the United in the nation’s sustainability development plan in 2007. Arab Emirates to National Accounts reviews complete or explore a research Today, based on our work and ongoing conversations, almost in process collaboration.

30 countries are likely early adopters of the Ecological Active government collaborations and Footprint (see map). All of these coutries are blazing new Footprint projects in process trails with regard to Footprint accounting, and all of them are The Ecological Footprint is used widely in regional government in Australia, with making unique strides towards institutionalizing sustainability. Promising leads and early discussions leading innovation from EPA Victoria and the Government of South Australia. Expanding Impact footprint forum 2006

Footprint Makes an Impression in Conservation First Time’s a Charm! We cannot conserve nature without addressing the In June 2006, the first-ever international conference growing pressure that humanity is placing on natural on the Ecological Footprint took place in Siena, systems. This is why the Footprint is proving to be a Italy. Close to 200 Ecological Footprint practitioners central tool in conservation work, and is widely used and supporters gathered in Tuscany for Footprint by WWF International, one of the world’s leading Forum 2006 to launch the first Ecological Footprint conservation organizations. Our collaboration with Standards and participate in one of the largest WWF International on the biennial publication of the Footprint training sessions ever held. Living Planet Report exemplifies the value the Footprint brings to conservation. This report series has been the Global Footprint Network and partner University most successful in WWF’s history—with the 2006 report of Siena co-hosted the first official gathering of breaking records for generating more press and media our partner organizations. Ninety representatives interest than any other report in the organization’s from government, business, and non-profit partner history, getting coverage in publications such as Reuters, organizations from 20 countries gathered to CNN, the UK Independent, Al-Jazeera and Fox News, strategize about using the Footprint as a tool to end and being published in eleven languages. global overshoot. Participants learned about each other’s work, attended in depth technical sessions, The Living Planet Report 2006 shows that if trends and discussed ways to bring the Footprint to the Africa and Beyond continue, humanity will demand twice as much as next level of influence. Synergies and collaborations our planet can supply by 2050. It also presents two Footprint Gives Ecological Lens to born from these meetings have been building alternative paths that could end overshoot and help Human Development Work momentum within the partner network ever since. restore depleted ecosystems within this century. A key Ecological capacity matters to human development. policy implication of the report is the importance of Just think of population growth, food security, political avoiding “resource traps”. Getting out of overshoot instability or inequitable access to resources. To means not building long-lasting infrastructure that will advance human development, decision-makers continuously require a large throughput of resources. need solid information about resource demand and availability to help them set realistic goals and track This June, WWF International honored Mathis progress. That’s why this year we started work in Wackernagel, our Executive Director, with the WWF “There is so much positive energy Africa. Award for Conservation Merit 2006 for “demonstrating going on. It is very important to a significant contribution and lifelong commitment to Our work in Africa began with a small project to local conservation and conservation achievements.” see like-minded people thinking of explore whether Ecological Footprint analysis applied Mathis was recognized for “his inspiration, enthusiasm the well-being of the human race in the African development context could lead to more and energy in developing the concept of the Ecological successful local development strategies. We are now Footprint and promoting its uptake by decision makers and the other creatures linking the UN Human Development Index with the throughout the world.” sharing with us this one planet Ecological Footprint—through a partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation—and The Footprint gained further recognition in the that we have.” have produced 40,000 mini brochures that highlight conservation arena this year when Global Footprint this profound relationship, created a fact book, Africa’s Network was invited to join the 2010 Biodiversity - Ms. Habiba Al Marashi, Ecological Footprint: Human Well-Being and Biological Indicator Partnership (2010 BIP), a new initiative of the Chairperson, Capital, and led three workshops in Africa in 2006 United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Emirates Environmental Group with more to come in 2007. Monitoring Centre. This initiative brings together over 40 organizations with indicators that can help to “achieve This cooperative project will expand and analysis will by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of deepen in 2007 to uncover new ways the Footprint biodiversity loss.” The 2010 target was adopted by can inform sustainable development work and support over 190 of the world’s governments at the meeting of development leaders with empowering tools and the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2001, and analyses. We believe providing a fuller picture of was endorsed by the World Summit on Sustainable Photos - from top to bottom: a view from Colle val development challenges, one that includes ecological Development in 2002. 2010 BIP will provide resources d’Elsa, the small town outside Siena that hosted our partner meetings and Footprint training; partners from Italy, Finland, constraints, will invite more sustainable solutions. to help further develop the Ecological Footprint and the and Australia take in a workshop presentation; two Footprint twenty-one other indicators chosen to measure progress practitioners talk technical during a coffee break. For more information, see www.footprintnetwork.org/africa. towards meeting the 2010 biodiversity targets. Partnership catalyzes progress

Growing Network Connections With partner new economics foundation (nef), By collaborating with our we organized our first global media campaign partners, we are able to to promote World Overshoot Day (October 9 in make progress that we can 2006), which marked the day humanity began not achieve by acting alone. using more resources than the planet could regenerate in that year. Stories ran in the UK Our 75 partners include the world’s leading individuals Guardian, the Independent, Times Online, BBC and organizations using the Ecological Footprint in News, National Geographic News, and other news education, government, business and academia to make sources around the world, and were published in planetary limits central to decision-making. Our partners over seven languages, as a result of leveraging make the Ecological Footprint relevant and practical our partners’ networks and media resources. in the countries in which they operate. They create ENO Environment Online, GPI Atlantic, Best Foot innovative applications and collaborate with us and with Forward, EPA Victoria, Planet2025 Network, and each other to increase penetration of the Footprint across other partners supported the campaign. Continental Europe Asia the globe. They also play a vital role in guiding our • Ambiente Italia • Ecological Footprint Japan research agenda and contributing to the development of WWF UK is spearheading the One Planet Business • Angenius • Global Village Beijing Footprinting methodology and standards. initiative, which focuses on supporting sector-wide • Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Transportation • Gujarat Institute of Development Research GIDR policy shifts to help transform industries. In 2006, • Charles University Environment Center • Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden This year, our partner network expanded, nearly in collaboration with partners WWF UK, Best Foot • Conseil Régional Nord Pas de Calais doubled in size from 45 to 75 organizations.We Forward, Stockholm Environment Institute, and • CRAS s.r.l. (Centro Ricerche Applicate per lo Sviluppo Australia now have a diversity of partners on five continents. SustainAbility, we helped analyze the Footprint of Sostenibile)” • Eco-Norfolk Foundation Together we are inspiring individuals, businesses, and specific economic sectors. The first report will be • De Kleine Aarde’ (The Small Earth) • EcoSTEPS governments to take action to reduce their Footprints, released in 2007. • Ecolife • EPA Victoria and are creating cutting-edge tools that drive • Empreinte Ecologique SARL • Government of South Australia - Department for institutional change. We are igniting a global dialogue In fall of 2006, in collaboration with GoLightly Inc., • ENO - Environment Online Environment and Heritage on ecological limits and overshoot. We are raising the we launched Footprint Forum, an online community- • ENS des Mines de Saint Etienne • University of Sydney ISA (Integrated Sustainability Analysis) profile of the Ecological Footprint. building tool that facilitates networking, collaboration, • Finnish Ministry of the Environment • WREC (Western Region Environment Centre) and the sharing of ideas and resources among our • Global Change: Blue Planet Footprint Campaign • Zero Waste South Australia Collaborative Achievements in 2006: partners. We hope the site will help spawn more • Government of Catalonia - Ministry of Environment & partner network collaborations in the years to come. Housing North America With partner BC Hydro—a large Canadian electric • IFF Social Ecology (Institut für Interdisziplinäre Forschung • AASHE (Association for the Advancement of utility—we developed a Footprint calculator to To learn more about becoming a und Fortbildung) Sustainability in Higher Education) enable the company to design distribution lines that Our Partners Global Footprint Partner, • Institute for Environmental Security • BC Hydro have less environmental impact. With the calculator, please email us at • IRES (Istituto Ricerche Economiche e Sociali del Piemonte) • Center for Sustainable Innovation designers can assess the Footprint of the materials, International [email protected] • IRIS (Istituto Ricerche Interdisciplinari sulla Sostenibilità) • City of Calgary technology, and routes used to build distribution • Earthday Network of University of Torino • Elephant Care International lines, and can ultimately minimize the Footprint of • ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability • Novatlantis • Global Green USA the company’s hydropower operations. • LEAD International (Leadership for Environment and • nrg4SD • Global Living Project Development) • OeKU (Ecumenical Working-group on Church and • GPI Atlantic With partner Marin Community Development • WWF International (World Wide Fund For Nature) Environment) • Marin Community Development Agency Agency—the planning, buildings, and • Plattform Footprint • Planet2025 Network environmental health division of Marin county United Kingdom • Rete Lilliput • The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education government in northern California—we used the • Best Foot Forward • SERI (Sustainable Europe Research Institute) • The Sustainable Scale Project Footprint to quantify and communicate the county’s • BRASS Centre at Cardiff University • St. Petersburg State University • University of Wisconsin SAGE (Center for Sustainability potential footprint savings and to guide plans • Hertfordshire County Council • University of Genoa - Department for the Study of and the Global Environment) for reducing the county’s Footprint by 15%. We • London Remade Territory and its Resources • Utah Population and Environment Coalition produced a report, Measuring Marin County’s • nef (new economics foundation) • University of Siena - Department of Chemical and • Zerofootprint Ecological Footprint, which has helped inform • Optimum Population Trust Biosystems Sciences policy goals and Footprint reductions set forth in • SEI (Stockholm Environment Institute) Central and South America Marin’s proposed Countywide Plan. The Footprint is • Web of Hope Africa • CES (Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad) at also being used by the county and local NGOs as • Welsh Assembly Government • North West University Center for Environmental Centro Universitario Hispano Mexicano a public communications tool. • WSP Environmental Management • Instituto de Ecología Política Strengthening foundations

Looking Ahead 2007 at a Glance The demand for our work, and for an Additionally, in partnership with WWF ever higher quality of Ecological Footprint offices in China and India we will generate analyses and tools, has never been Footprint reports and other applications to greater. foster sustainable development strategies in these fast growing nations. In 2007 we will continue to build the Footprint’s foundation, expand our Finally, we will continue building impact by deepening our technical work, internal systems to support our outreach, strengthen our internal capacity, broaden fundraising, and quality assurance our network’s opportunities, and engage programs, and we will open a Global national governments. Footprint Network Europe office in Belgium National Footprint Accounts and Standards Outreach this year and bring in new management Institutionalizing the Ecological Footprint at the national Ending global overshoot means engaging the citizenry We will push forward with Ten-in-Ten and technical staff in the US office. level requires that statistical offices, policy advisors, of nations, broadening our network and impact by working with leading countries— academia and businesses trust the methodology and throughout the world, continuously increasing public Switzerland, Japan, and the European Big Dreams data underlying the Footprint. By maintaining and awareness of overshoot, and generating demand for Union—to make the Ecological Footprint a strengthening the National Footprint Accounts and action from national governments. prominent national metric. As Global Footprint Network and the creating global Ecological Footprint Standards, we greater Footprint community continue ensure accurate, consistent, and comparable Footprint Our outreach efforts—which include publication We will improve the National Footprint to strengthen and expand the reach analyses. of a widely circulated newsletter, ongoing website Accounts as we incorporate new UN-FAO of the Footprint, a whole new class improvements, giving talks and trainings around the data, produce a detailed guidebook to One of our central roles is to conduct and coordinate of breakthroughs becomes possible - world, and launching our first major media campaign increase the clarity and transparency of research that improves the methodology behind launching Ten-in-Ten is just a first step. —have resulted in improved communication tools and the accounts, and publish a paper—in Ecological Footprint calculations. In November 2006, increased global awareness of the Footprint and our collaboration with the National Footprint We envision a day when all the major with the support of WWF International, we released mission. Judging from Google hits and ranking, the Accounts Committee—outlining a research economies in the world are measuring the 2006 Edition of the National Footprint Accounts— reach of our partner organizations, and the continuous agenda for the coming years. their Ecological Footprints; when global which consist of roughly 5,000-point data and 40,000 mention in international media, we can say with policy and financial institutions use calculations per country for 152 countries, and reflect confidence that millions are being reached and served We will support our partner, the Univesity the Footprint to assess risks; when the input from partners as well as results from our research by the Footprint. of Cardiff, in hosting the first academic Footprint has full endorsement by major collaboration with the Swiss Government. Ecological Footprint conference in global policy organizations and is helping Additionally, this year we developed a strategy May 2007. Policy makers, businesses, redirect billions of dollars of investment for improving the accuracy, transparency, and academics and other leaders in flows and public funds towards making applicability of the National Footprint Accounts. This Join Us Footprinting will participate and present global sustainability a reality. workshops and over sixty Footprint papers. led to the launch of the National Accounts Improvement We are on our way to having our dream Project, an ongoing research, development, and of a beautiful world. The Ecological We will continue working in Africa and fundraising initiative. Footprint is a tool that can help build a We invite you to join us in creating a world where will publish a report, Africa 2007: Human world with a sustainable human economy, In June 2006, the first set of Ecological Footprint Well-Being and Ecological Assets. We we can all live well within the means of one planet. a world where economics and environment Standards was officially released in Siena, Italy. This will develop an Africa Footprint Atlas are two sides of the same coin, and where first round of standards were born of a consensus- Together, we can create tremendous positive change– to document the ecological assets and everyone lives well, within the means of based, committee process that allows for continued capacity constraints for a number of African each one of us can make a difference. one planet. improvements and updates. The standards address a countries. In Mozambique and Zambia variety of Footprinting issues—including use of source we will explore how the Footprint can help data, derivation of conversion factors, establishment overcome human development challenges. Thank you for being part of our dream. of study boundaries, and communication of findings— To find out more abouthow you can contribute– and are essential to maintaining the integrity of the participate, partner, volunteer, donate, or spread the Footprint as its applications multiply and diversify around the world. word about our work– please visit our website at For more information, see www.footprintstandards.org. www.footprintnetwork.org. FINANCES

Expenditures - $989,725

Accounting, Computers, Phones & IT, $36,950 $54,742 Work through In-Kind Support, $76,513 Newsletter, Web & Travel and Local Transportation, Communications, $27,664 $62,142 Subcontractors, $51,452 Occupancy, $45,604 Printing & Postage, $13,277 Office Supplies & Operating Expenses, $40,772 In 2006 much of our revenue (39%) was generated from strategic self-funded projects, while a growing percentage (37%) came from foundations, corporations, nonprofits and individual contributions, allowing us to build core programs like National Accounts and Standards. Partnership contributions increased this year Other Direct Program Costs, $109,241 to 12% of total income. And as always, we have benefited greatly from the efforts of generous and talented Payroll, volunteers who contributed their services. $471,369

Income - $ 1,038,613 Program Income and Expenses

Royalties & Educational $350,000 Materials, $8,134 Reimbursements for Project Expenses, $48,984 $300,000 Events, $13,822 License Fees, $11,138 $250,000 Speaking Honoraria, Foundations, $176,058 $32,137 $200,000

Contributed Services & Government Agency Materials, $78,808 $150,000 Sponsorships, 15,000.00 Dollars us

$100,000 Partnership Contributions,

$122,979 $50,000

Self-Funded Project Income, $404,322 $- Program Activities, Donations, $119,018 Program Activities - Fundraising for General Standards & National Applications Admin Outreach Operations* Accounts

Income $298,272 $254,051 $172,883 $11,033 $302,374 Corporate Support, $8,212 Expense $321,878 $235,777 $123,430 $203,032 $113,779

Note: *Income restricted to specific Program Activities is shown as Income under those Program Activity categories. Note: Financial data for 2006 are unaudited as of publication of this report. The income under Fundraising for General Operations is unrestricted income only. Who we are

Board of Directors Global Footprint Network 2006 Staff

• John Balbach, Managing Partner, Cleantech Group, • Nina Bohlen, Director, Strategic Development co-founder State of the World Forum. • Susan Burns, Managing Director • Susan Burns, founder of the pioneering sustainability consulting firm Natural Strategies and Managing • Debbie Cheng, Research Associate Director of Global Footprint Network. • James Espinas, Operations Manager • Bob Doppelt, Executive Director, Resource • Brooking Gatewood, Coordinator, Communications Innovation Group. and Partnership • Eric Frothingham, corporate attorney, business • Denine Giles, Office Manager executive, and part-owner of Progressive Investment Management, a socially responsible investment firm. • Steve Goldfinger, Senior Scientist

Photo collage: Advisory council members as listed below, • Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological • Martin Kärcher, Coordinator, Swiss Office from left to right, top to bottom. Footprint and Executive Director of Global Footprint • Justin Kitzes, Manager, National Footprint Accounts Science and Policy Advisory Council Network. • Dan Moran, Research Affiliate • Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica • Peter Raven, former President of the American • Michael Murray, Research Associate Association for the Advancement of Science Advisors • Mick Bourke, Chairman of EPA Victoria, Australia • Audrey Peller, Research Associate • William E. Rees, co-creator of the Ecological • Robynne Boyd • Mary Thomas, Communications Coordinator • Lester Brown, founder of the Worldwatch Institute Footprint • Celery Design Collaborative • Aaron Welch, Research Associate • Karl-Henrik Robèrt, founder of The Natural Step • Herman E. Daly, intellectual father of Ecological • Coblentz, Patch, Duffy and Bass • Mathis Wackernagel, Executive Director Economics • Emil Salim, former Indonesian Minister of State • Cooley Godward LLP • Paul Wermer, Senior Scientist • Fabio Feldman, former Sao Paolo Minister of • Fontinello, Duffield and Otake • Gary Gibson, Programmer Environment • James Gustave “Gus” Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences • Free Range Studios • David Weaver, Research Associate • Eric Garcetti, City Councilor of Los Angeles • Eva Konigsberg, CFO Savvy • Will Steffen, Chief Scientist of the International • Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Geosphere-Biosphere Programme • Joe Knox, Topside Network Movement • Laura Loescher • David Suzuki, award winning scientist and • Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General of IUCN – broadcaster • Ben and Jeff Mackewicz, ISpot Interactive the World Conservation Union • Patsy Northcutt, Northcutt Productions • M. S. Swaminathan, India’s leading scientist on • Manfred Max-Neef, economist, recipient of the sustainable food security • Jill Rosenblum Tidman, JRT Consulting Right Livelihood Award • Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, founder of the • Anne Schonfield • Michael Meacher, former UK Minister of Wuppertal Institute and Dean of the Bren School at • Dana Smirin Environment The University of California, Santa Barbara • Cody Taylor • Rhodri Morgan, First Minister for Wales • Dominique Voynet, former Environment Minister • Mike Wallace, Wallace Partners LLC of France • Norman Myers, leading environmental scientist • Jill Wilk, HR Consulting Solutions • Edward O. Wilson, “father of biodiversity”, • Nelson Wong and Thor Myhrstad, Box IT, LCC • Daniel Pauly, leading marine ecologist distinguished biologist, Harvard University • Robert Williams Photo: Global Footprint Network staff and partners • Jorgen Randers, former President of the Norwegian • Carrie Wynkoop and Kari Crisholm, Mandate Media after Footprint Forum 2006 in Tuscany this past June. School of Management Contributors

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