{"id":6890,"date":"2016-02-21T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/?p=6890\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T21:00:14","slug":"origami-japans-ecological-footprint-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/2016\/02\/21\/origami-japans-ecological-footprint-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Origami and Japan&#8217;s Ecological Footprint have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/images\/article_uploads\/origami-footprint-550.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/images\/article_uploads\/origami-creating-225.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"227\" align=\"right\" \/>Would you believe this colorful Footprint image above was created from actual origami pieces? This charming depiction of the Ecological Footprint was used in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/images\/article_uploads\/Japan_Brochure_2015_LoRes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Ecological Footprint for Sustainable Living in Japan<\/a>\u201d that we produced with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwf.or.jp\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\">WWF Japan<\/a>\u00a0last year. We tip our hats to Almazora Carla Marie Hugo, Trina D.Dela Rama and Rina Malonzo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinktankstudio.com\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tink Tank Studio<\/a> for their labor of love spent to produce the origami pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Ecological Footprint is smaller than it was 10 years ago, but the country still demands more from nature than its own ecosystems can renew.\u00a0 In fact, today, Feb. 21, marks the national ecological deficit day for Japan. Its citizens\u2019 demand for the goods and services that its land and seas can provide\u2014fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, wood, cotton for clothing and carbon dioxide absorption\u2014now exceeds what Japan\u2019s ecosystems can renew over the full year. Japan\u2019s high population density is one key contributor to its ecological deficit; per person consumption is another contributor.<\/p>\n<p>When a nation like Japan is in ecological deficit, it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and\/or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Trade is a fact of life in our globalized economy, but just as a trade deficit can be a risk, so can an ecological deficit. See how much nature Japan has (biocapacity) and how much its citizens use (Ecological Footprint) in the figure below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/images\/article_uploads\/Japan-550.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Ecological Footprint work in Japan:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/images\/article_uploads\/Japan_Brochure_2015_LoRes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Ecological Footprint for Sustainable Living in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/images\/article_uploads\/Japan_Ecological_Footprint_2012_Eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Ecological Footprint Report 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/images\/uploads\/Japan_EF_Report_2009_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Ecological Footprint Report 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you believe this colorful Footprint image above was created from actual origami pieces? This charming depiction of the Ecological Footprint was used in \u201cThe Ecological Footprint for Sustainable Living in Japan\u201d that we produced with WWF Japan\u00a0last year. We tip our hats to Almazora Carla Marie Hugo, Trina D.Dela Rama and Rina Malonzo of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[102,94],"class_list":["post-6890","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-blog","tag-country","tag-partners"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What do Origami and Japan&#039;s Ecological Footprint have in common? - Global Footprint Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/2016\/02\/21\/origami-japans-ecological-footprint-common\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What do Origami and Japan&#039;s Ecological Footprint have in common? - Global Footprint Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Would you believe this colorful Footprint image above was created from actual origami pieces? 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