Author: Peri Dworatzek

  • Leading the way: How the Welsh Government uses the Ecological Footprint to shape sustainable policies

    By Marina ErminaIEFLL Research FellowMaster Student at University of Iceland September 2025 Introduction The Global Footprint Network reports that people around the world are using more natural resources than the Earth can provide leading to an ecological deficit of 1.2 global hectares (gha) per person, which is equivalent to using the resources of 1.8 Earths…

  • International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab (IEFLL) Biennial Symposium hosted by the University of Iceland

    By Peri DworatzekIEFLL Partnership CoordinatorPhD Student at York University September 2025 This past June (2025), members of the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab (IEFLL) from York University traveled to Iceland to meet with IEFLL members based in Iceland. This week-long symposium was the first opportunity for York University and University of Iceland researchers, faculty, and…

  • From Biology to Emissions Accounting and Everything in-between: Kiona Lo’s experience at EFI

    By Kiona LoIEFLL Senior Data AnalystGraduated from the Masters at York University June 2025 Kiona Lo was attracted to the Ecological Footprint Initiative (EFI) because of the application of informatics in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies. Kiona has a science background, having earned her undergraduate degree in biology. Kiona discovered in working with the…

  • Mapping the Ecological Footprint of a new expressway in Ontario

    By Bart Hawkins KrepsIEFLL Research FellowMaster Student at York University March 2025 By Bumika SrikanthalingamIEFLL Research FellowMaster Student at York University March 2025 The Ontario provincial government is planning a new expressway through primarily rural lands to the north of the existing Toronto urban area. The plan has been opposed by environmental and sustainable city advocates…

  • Dr. Trevor Hancock: A Visionary in Population Health and Sustainability

    By Henry ChallenMaster Student at York University March 2025 In just how bad a state are we leaving our planet for future generations? Is it true that we currently live in a “toxic soup” of industrial chemicals? How do we get Canadians to truly care about their ecological footprint? I’d been wrestling with these deeply…

  • Restoring the place of Land in economic modelling – the work of Andrew Reeves

    By Bart Hawkins KrepsIEFLL Research FellowMaster Student at York University March 2025 Roll the clock back almost two-hundred years, and pretend you are a far-sighted economist hearing about the new “Analytical Engine”. You immediately understand that this prototype computing machine might one day sort data far faster than any human brain could do, building elaborate…

  • Measuring bioproductivity in cityscapes: the research of Anne van Berkum

    By Bart Hawkins KrepsIEFLL Research FellowMaster Student at York University January 2025 Imagine you’re looking at a one-hectare parking lot surrounded by fertile farmland. And imagine that there are two rows of trees growing in narrow green strips built through this parking lot. How would you estimate the Biocapacity of this hectare? Since it was…

  • Growth, green growth, degrowth, and Ecological Footprint: Peter Victor in conversation with Richard Heinberg

    –  Excerpted from Growth, Degrowth, and Green Growth: A Conversation with Peter Victor, Posted with permission from © Post Carbon Institute 2024 – Excerpted produced by Bart Hawkins KrepsIEFLL Research FellowMaster Student at York University March 2025 Recently Peter Victor spoke with Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, for their Deep Dive series Moving Beyond…

  • Les Kuzyk draws on detailed local data to document Calgary’s Ecological Footprint

    By Bart Hawkins KrepsIEFLL Research FellowMaster Student at York University December 2024 By Anna StrattonIEFLL Research FellowMaster Student at York University December 2024 “We are killing ourselves and our planet and no one seems to want to face the truth,” says Calgary planning analyst Les Kuzyk. Yet he continues his work, making significant contributions to…