About Shrinking Footprints

Begun in Spring 2006 Shrinking Footprints, the Carleton sustainability blog, serves as a forum for information and communications regarding sustainability at Carleton College.  Blog articles are written by the STAs (student Sustainability Assistants), Environmental Studies Educational Associates, and interested faculty, staff, and students.  Articles cover a broad array of information from international news pertinent to campus to seasonal developments in Carleton's 880-acre Arboretum and is consistently read by an audience both inside and outside the Carleton community.  In October 2008 the Shrinking Footprints homepage recieved more than 4,500 visits.