Actually, it can. Some sweaters are directly linked to our growing deserts. In fact, in just five years they made the world’s deserts grow by an area larger than the Netherlands.

But how?
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On 21 August we used up our “ecological budget” for the year. Since that day we are using natural resources that will not be renewed by nature.

It’s called Earth Overshoot Day.

When we were planning to go live with ‘amiiko’ we thought “Great, we can write a blog post on Earth Overshoot Day about 2 weeks after launch”. Last year the day fell on 25 September – so we thought it would probably happen around mid September this year.

We were wrong. It happened much sooner…
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