'A footprint means pressing down and global means world, so 'global footprint' means pressing down on the world and we don't want to press too hard' (child's definition of a Global Footprint)

Equal waste footprints: a way forward

Our current lifestyles in the western world are unsustainable. We take resources from the earth and then discard them back again as waste when we have consumed them or finished with them. The levels of waste we create act as a kind of barometer to measure just how unsustainable our lives have become.

We need to learn to want less, use less, and be more generous – sharing the earth’s resources with those who have so little.

what is Global Learning? what is sustainability? what about child rights? what about climate change?

did you know!

Water can be fresh but never new. All the water in the world, in the ice caps, the oceans, the clouds, in the rivers and under the ground, is about a billion years old. There’s always been the same stock of water on Earth, it just moves around the planet, changing to ice or seawater or rain.

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