Shrinking Footprints Blog
Welcome to 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 received more than 4,500 visits.
Categories
- Building and Planning
- Carleton
- Carleton
- Carleton's Wind Turbine
- Climate Change
- Cowling Arboretum
- Ecosystem Management
- Energy, Sources/Uses
- Environmental Justice
- Food
- GHG Emissions and GHG Offsets
- Higher Education
- International News
- National News
- Student Projects
- Sustainable Plannning/Development
- Transportation
- Waste
New Sustainability Resources
July 28, 2010 at 3:04 pmThere are lots of additions to Sustainability at Carleton this summer!
The Farm is A Growin'
July 6, 2010 at 11:59 amAn update from the summer 2010 farm interns!
Sustainability This Summer
June 30, 2010 at 2:09 pmThe blog's been quiet since September 2009, but now we're back! Check out what's going on with sustainability at Carleton this summer!
Carleton featured in Audubon Magazine
September 4, 2009 at 11:51 amCarleton has been featured in Audubon Magazine's September/October special issue on Green Design!
Field Notes from the Tiger-less Tiger Reserve
August 28, 2009 at 11:52 amOrion writes about tigers, or the lack of tigers, in a reserve in Myanmar.
Myanmar Government Accidently Lowers Pollution
August 12, 2009 at 8:11 amOrion writes again and describes how sometimes using local resources encourages more than just foreign independence.
Energy and water consumption data for campus buildings now online
August 4, 2009 at 8:39 amWant to know how much electricity your favorite building on campus used in March 2007? Now you can look it up online!
Emissions Standards: Exporting Pollution
August 3, 2009 at 9:44 amAnother post from Orion, this time about exporting old, inefficient technologies to foreign countries. Myanmar gets Japan's leftovers, but what is the US doing to stop its own unwanted items from entering countries with lower standards as well?
Carleton's plans for a second wind turbine in the Northfield News
July 29, 2009 at 10:51 amSam Friedman '09, here in Northfield for the summer, has gotten an article published on the front page of the Northfield News about Carleton's plans to install a second wind turbine near campus.
Summer in the Arb
July 24, 2009 at 8:14 amNancy and the Arb Crew are hard at work this summer. Here's an update on what they're working on!
Mandalay cracks down on plastic bags
July 23, 2009 at 3:16 pmOrion Martin '11 writes again, and this time discusses plastic-related policy in Burma, Australia, and Bangladesh. If recycling alone isn't a long-term solution to over-consumption of plastic, what is being done to encourage people to cut back?
