How do we push Earth Overshoot Day to the end of December?

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"How do we push Earth Overshoot Day to the end of December?"

On Saturday, March 30, 2024, a day will be organized in THUIS Wageningen (Stationsstraat 32) to ensure that Earth Overshoot Day is moved to later in the year. The event lasts from 10 a.m. to approximately half past four.
 
What is the Dutch Earth Overshoot Day?

Earth Overshoot Day is the day on which more raw materials are consumed worldwide than the Earth can produce in one year. If every world citizen were to live like a Dutch person, it would fall on April 1, 2024 this year. That is much too early. Everything we consume after that date is intended for subsequent years. All that extra consumption comes at the expense of other people elsewhere in the world and at the expense of our children and grandchildren. Our climate mayor Pauline Schakenbos thinks it is important to consider this. She welcomes this initiative and cordially invites everyone to come and think and act.

What do we do?

There will be a few talks on this Saturday, March 30, and organizer Lia Hemerik would like to take stock with her female colleagues and us, the Wageningen people, of what we could do ourselves to achieve this 'overshoot day' later in the year. It obviously means that we have to use up our 'resources' less quickly, and that requires more conscious (and less) consumption, reuse, and other forms of food production that less deplete the natural resources of soil, water and raw materials in other countries.

To find out what you and we can do, four 20-minute talks have been planned, with plenty of time in between to discuss what you want and/or can do to put less burden on the earth, and also what you can do to others (supermarkets). , governments, your family, your employer) would advise you to do. By exchanging ideas and tips, this day offers a lot of inspiration to contribute to postponing Earth Overshoot Day.
 
Speakers
- Anne-Marie Pronk, the climate nurse. Has been working on campaigns about nature, environment and climate for NGOs and governments for more than 18 years. In 20 minutes, under the title “The Myth of Apathy,” she shares what she learned about how to get people moving, whether it's your neighbor or the entire neighborhood.
- Jetske de Boer, lecturer at Aeres University of Applied Sciences Wageningen and researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, guides us through biodiversity restoration on school grounds and at home under the motto “All bees help!”. She has been researching insects for more than 20 years.
- Jelleke De Nooy van Tol, worked at the Food Transition Coalition, is active at VoedingAnders and in the Prosperity, Welfare, Well-being movement, on the way to a meaningful economy. She takes us through her story about “Food waste and transition to other forms of food production”. Jelleke wrote several books about the transition that is underway and how everyone can do something about it.
- Jana Verboom, biologist, teacher, mother, nature lover, and conscious consumer. She discusses the topic “The biodiversity crisis and what you can do as a consumer”. She also points out the causes of the biodiversity crisis and how you can contribute to solutions by making a few simple choices.
Organizer Lia Hemerik has been a theoretical biologist for more than three decades, a member of a global organization of women who fight against climate change and she has been an IVN nature guide for 40 years and is therefore involved with nature and the environment.
 
Practical:
The organizing committee warmly welcomes you to participate.
Even if you can only come for half the day, it is still worth it!
Coffee and tea will be provided (donations welcome).
Please bring your own lunch.