Our history
Guinness World Records - originally the Guinness Book of Records - the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievements, started out as an idea for a book of facts to solve arguments in pubs.
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The idea came about in the early 1950’s when Sir Hugh Beaver (1890—1967), Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, attended a shooting party in County Wexford.
There, he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe, and failed to find an answer in any reference book.*
In 1954, recalling his shooting party argument, Sir Hugh had the idea for a Guinness promotion based on the idea of settling pub arguments and invited the twins Norris (1925—2004) and Ross McWhirter (1925—75) who were fact-finding researchers from Fleet Street to compile a book of facts and figures.
Guinness Superlatives was incorporated on 30 November and the office opened in two rooms in a converted gymnasium on the top floor of Ludgate House, 107 Fleet Street.
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Answer:
Ecological footprint measures how much of nature we use.
Ecological footprint is measured in global hectares(ghe) units- used to measure biocapacity and ecological footprint, relatively. Ecological footprint can be on individual,national or global scale.
Ecological footprint is important because it measures the amount of biological resources a population needs as compared to what is available.
My Ecological footprint would be calculated based on my personal biological needs.
Explanation:
Ecological footprint could be defined as the level of human activities measured in terms of his biological needs with relation to biological availability. Ecological footprint has become increasingly important as it helps to check man's impact on his natural environment as a case of urgency on the present state of the planet. Every year,
since 2003, Global Footprint Network calculates ecological footprint using data sources from the UN. Global Footprint Network estimates that, as of 2014, human impact on natural capital is 1.7 times as fast as Earth can renew it.
