On June 5, Global Footprint Network made its annual announcement: July 30 is 2026’s Overshoot Day. Vermonters should know Overshoot Announcement Day tells us on which day, year over year, the great human project will start extracting nonrenewable resources. These are materials like fossil fuels, limestone, rare earth elements, groundwater, bauxite and so on. The first Overshoot Day, in 1970, was Dec. 30.