Our Collective Survival

Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how industrial society treats land as something that belongs to us, and asks, how can we shift back to "belonging to the land"? Despite the economic pressures of our current system, he says, we need to reframe the way we work with the ecological world so that we can benefit life as a whole.

Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. is the co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and executive director of the Global Footprint Network. He is the recipient of the 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit and the 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship among others. Full bio and links »