tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:/xml/ecological_footprint1 2011-02-21T22:35:17Z tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/7472 2011-02-21T22:33:00Z 2011-02-21T22:35:17Z Investing around $1.3 trillion, which represents about 2% of the world's gross domestic product (GDP), into ten sectors could move the world economy from fossil-fuel dependent toward a low carbon economy, according to report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP). In addition, the investments would alleviate global poverty and keep stagnating economies humming, while cutting humanity's global ecological footprint nearly in half by 2050 even in the face of rising populations. Jeremy Hance tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/2933 2008-05-30T14:30:39Z 2008-12-16T10:14:01Z Honolulu, Los Angeles and metropolitan Portland have the smallest carbon footprint among American cities, while Cincinnati-Middletown area, Indianapolis, and Kentucky's Lexington-Fayette have the worst, according to a new report that analyzes carbon emissions from transportation and residential energy use by city dwellers. Rhett Butler tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/2833 2008-03-10T14:30:39Z 2008-12-29T06:48:29Z Mankind is appropriating 20 percent more resources each year than Earth can produce, according to a report from environmental group WWF. Rhett Butler tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/1614 2007-02-01T14:30:39Z 2008-12-29T06:44:28Z Wal-Mart Stores announced a new Sustainability 360 environmental initiative on Thursday, encouraging employees, suppliers, communities and customers to reduce the company's direct environmental footprint. Rhett Butler tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/1368 2006-11-01T16:28:39Z 2008-12-29T06:43:51Z A new study says that forest roads adversely affect wildlife populations. Writing in an article to be published in the journal conservation Biology, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have found that low-use and abandoned logging, mining, and oil access roads create a significant ecological footprint in heavily forested areas. Rhett Butler tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/641 2005-12-05T15:19:39Z 2008-12-29T06:42:24Z As global populations swell, farmers are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. Rhett Butler tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/100 2005-05-05T15:19:39Z 2008-12-29T06:42:03Z The Bush administration's repeal a Clinton-era federal rule that banned road construction, logging and other development in some 58.5 million acres of roadless public land will likely increase the 'human footprint' on pristine wildlands in the United States. Rhett Butler