The word 'footprints' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the impressions left by a person's feet on the ground or surface they have walked on. Example: The sandy beach was covered in footprints, evidence of the many people who had walked along it that day.
Neighbourhoods were based on an extended and congested social network, and their urban footprints continue to expand.
Off he went, fast but seemingly effortlessly through the middle, leaving no footprints.
Though internet privacy was beginning to emerge as an issue, few people had any idea of the extent to which governments and their secretive auxiliaries were able to trawl, sift, collect and scrutinise the personal digital footprints of millions of private individuals.
Caroline Lucas, the leader of the party, said: "I would encourage all Green party members to commit to this, bearing in mind that most Greens will have been striving to reduce their carbon footprints anyway, and for many people the next steps towards, for example, carbon-neutral housing, would need to be facilitated by a package of government grants, subsidies and feed-in tariffs".
Estonia says that in the immediate aftermath of Friday's incident, Estonian and Russian border guards conducted a joint investigation of the site which found impact craters from the grenades on the Estonian side and multiple footprints on a sand cordon on the border, suggesting that a group of men had crossed from Russia.
Caroline Lucas MEP Leader, Green party I agree that we are all too keen to expect "the government" to come up with answers to problems we don't want to face ourselves, such as cutting our carbon footprints.
Charles Harris London So, to save the planet Anthony Horowitz is going to cut down one flight in 10, Sara Cox is going to fit 80s draught excluders, and Daniel Merriweather thinks Melbourne is the greenest place he has ever visited, despite Australia having one of the world's worst per-capita carbon footprints.
I've seen fresh footprints of Bengal tigers where they crossed in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, proboscis monkeys peering from trees in Malaysia, and immense sea crocodiles launching themselves from primordial shores towards our boat in emerald enclaves of India's Bhitarakanika sanctuary.
It is reasonably clean; leaves behind little in the way of waste; does not suffer the vagaries of the weather or the inevitability of sunset; makes the tiniest of footprints on the land; and is pretty well inexhaustible.
So there is only limited scope for such products' makers to lessen their environmental footprints through green measures of their own.As a result, most corporate sustainability plans rarely amount to more than cost-saving measures and compliance with government regulations, plus a few projects with a public-relations punch (say, reforesting parts of a cleared jungle).
British soldiers, outmanoeuvred for 160 years in Afghanistan, left no footprints in his sand.
