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In this nef e-letter nef news nef events nef publications nef news nef reveals: the day Britain starts eating the planet
Over the Easter weekend, far from touching any of the 465 tonnes of gingerbread we imported into the UK last year (as around the same volume passed it in the night in the other direction), nef was hard at work exposing the depth, breadth, and implications of our growing interdependence (with help from our friends at the Open University). The UK Interdepence report launched on Easter Saturday, the day before the average person in the UK went into ecological debt - having effectively used up the UK's biocapacity for this year on Easter Sunday....
nef invites: nef and the Open University invite you to declare your interdependence
Interdependence Day, Saturday 1 July, Royal Geographical Society, London, 1pm - 6pm Join us: All of the work that nef does from tackling the forces that create clone town Britain, to combating climate change is dependent on the help of people like you. Help us by supporting nef’s vision of a new economy based on social justice, environmental sustainability and collective well-being.
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A new nef report has revealed Britain's rising dependence on the rest of the world's resources- as the nation went into ecological debt on Easter Sunday - the day we started effectively living beyond our environmental means. In fact, if everyone in the world lived as we do in the UK, we would need 3.1 planets to sustain us
In a double page spread, the Guardian newspaper looked at 
Having revealed the extent of our growing interdependence, nef and the Open University now invite you to look at the world afresh. Participate, experience and contribute in helping to make new maps for an island planet. Demands to save the planet from environmental catastrophe, or to act on poverty, are often daunting in scale and distant from daily life. But nef believes that our interdependence is, in fact