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GEO students go for the globe by Monica Patel, Editor-in-Chief Senior Tori Sepulveda scuttles into GEO teacher Mark DiMaggio’s class just as the clock strikes 9:11 a.m. It took a hot shower, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and mastery in the art of weaving past cars in morning traffic to claim her parking spot. But it also cost her a dent in her ecological footprint. The GEO class began on March 7 the Ecological Footprint Project: a complication of weighed clothes, trash, food, and behaviors that tries to answer how students’ lifestyles affect the planet. They finished on April 3, discovering impacts from energy use, driving cars, and personal cleaning habits. An ecological footprint is expressed in “global acres,” which measures the difference in biological production of various ecosystems impacted by human consumption activities, according to myfootprint.org. Continued on GEO page 20
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