Global Footprint Network

The Global Footprint Network works to "increase the effectiveness of the Ecological Footprint as a tool for promoting ecological, social and economic sustainability."


 * Susan Burns, Managing Director

Directors
Accessed January 2009:


 * Susan Burns, Founder of the pioneering sustainability consulting firm Natural Strategies and Managing Director of Global Footprint Network.
 * Kristin Cobble, leadership and organizational development practitioner, Global Business Network.
 * Daniel Geiger, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Marine Biology, University of Southern California.
 * Eric Frothingham, corporate attorney, business executive and part owner of Progressive Investment Management, a socially responsible investment firm.
 * Andre Hoffmann, Swiss entrepreneur and investor.
 * Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and Executive Director of Global Footprint Network.

Emeritus
 * John Balbach, Managing Partner of Cleantech Group
 * Bob Doppelt, Executive Director of Resource Innovations and The Climate Leadership Initiative
 * Elizabeth McNamee, radio producer and development consultant
 * Cara Pike, Director, Social Capital Project, Earth Justice
 * Ann Hancock, Executive Director, Sustainable Sonoma County and Campaign Coordinator, Skymetrics

Science and Policy Advisory Council
Accessed April 2008:


 * David T. Suzuki
 * Wangari Maathai
 * E.O. Wilson
 * James Gustave Speth
 * Daniel Pauly
 * Oscar Arias
 * Julia Marton-Lefevre
 * William Rees
 * Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker
 * Lester Brown
 * M. S. Swaminathan
 * Manfred Max-Neef
 * Herman E. Daly
 * Rhodri Morgan
 * Emil Salim
 * Norman Myers
 * Fabio Feldmann
 * Jorgen Randers
 * Mick Bourke
 * Dominique Voynet
 * Michael Meacher
 * Karl-Henrik Robert
 * Will Steffen
 * Peter H. Raven
 * Eric Garcetti

Criticism

 * Samir Amin, "Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint", Monthly Review, November 2009.

Contact

 * Web: http://www.footprintnetwork.org

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