Exhibit+Ideas

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-Craig (P.S This in itself can be considered an "exhibit", although it's really just to add to the "everyday life")
 * I got a pretty awesome idea based on one of Nikki's idea with the two mannequins facing each other having a conversation. So, I was thinking we could have these mannequins scattered about as though real people in the street, and they can all be saying something with regards to the environment. It can be sarcastic, truthful, funny etc. dialogue. Also, this wouldn't be something to scratch our brains out to think of, they can just be quick blurbs.

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**Movie Theatre**
__Andrea__: You know how they have screens playing previews and music videos? Maybe we can have one playing relevant clips like "Waiting on the world to change" by John Mayer or "Where is the love?" and stuff like that __Nicole__: I was assuming the theatre would be more of a place for a show but we could have the clips playing inbetween shows? for the show i thought maybe we could do demonstrations of how global warming works and whatnot __Craig:__ I really like the ideas, and I agree with Nicole, I think the theatre should be used for live shows, with a talk about global warming and what we can do to conserve energy every...1 or 2 hours. It will essentially be a show embodying the entire exhibit, but with a person talking. And when there is no show, like both Nicole and Andrea said, we can play actual movie clips from, say, An Inconvenient Truth etc. __Hasnain:__ If it is possible within reason maybe we could have live feeds of the ice caps melting:P although that would be kind of boring but it could be one of the many feeds that we could show. __Nikki__: To Craig: Do you mean 1-2 hours between shows or 1-2 hours as the length of the show? If that's how long the show is, I think it's too much, especially since our exhibit [I think] should be tailored more towards kids. I like the idea of it being about global warming and I think it should be interactive to make it interesting.

__Nicole__: charge your ipod while riding a bike [this is kicka$$ - hyder] __Craig:__ I think this should be combined with the home hardware store, but if this is the "Future Shop", this is where we should display images of electrical car-to-be and other cars of the sort. We can also show solar panels and show how they work and what they do. Basically, the "Future Shop" [ <- fully stole my idea! - __Hyder < excuse me, it's not stealing it's called building upon your idea - Craig__] should contain ways on renewable sources of energy and focus on the five R's. __Nikki__: I agree with you, Craig, and Nicole- your idea is amazing. I think in this shop, we can show futuristic forms of certain objects such as an iPod which has solar panels on the back to store extra energy [when it is not being charged by the bike =P]. Also cell phones and lap tops which have more recyclable parts. Oh- maybe there can be an area with old cell phones, solar panels, and other materials that people can put together and see for themselves how the future can be greener with just a few mods to the things we take for granted.
 * Technology Store**

**Makeup Store**
__Nicole__: get a blacklight that shows sun damage on people's skin (this might freak people out so i dunno if we should use it) and then use that to show facts on the ozone layer and how we've destroyed it __Craig:__ I think this should be combined with the clothing store to make it a "fashion area", and I also feel that make up has more health concerns than environmental ones because for example, nail polish has carcinogens in them etc. but these toxins can also leak and cause run off if not disposed of properly so I'm thinking we can do something around those lines, no exhibit idea yet. Hasnain: An idea for all these stores is that there should be perhaps a seperate section for the mall which is away from the street...so we have our street and one of the walls leads to the mall area. Nikki: Omgash! I actually have a black light at home! Haha, anyways... I had a weird idea for this one. You know how the average woman consumes about 20kg of lipstick in a lifetime? We can make an oversized model of the lipstick and list all the materials used to make it, titled: "Would you eat this for Dinner?" or something like that. Ahhh, just an idea.

__Andrea__: promote the concept of reuseable and recycled bags, so i think this would be a good place to show the exhibit idea where we show the steps of how a water bottle can be recycled into a reuseable bag, also along with the clothing maybe we can have an organic fabric guessing game where the fabrics are all in cut pieces or stretched out in squares and the organic and eco-friendly ones are compared to the man-made ones, showing how environmentally clothing is just as great as the regular stuff! lol __Nicole__: This isnt really an interactive exhibit but I thought maybe we could have a brochure or handout, that has all the environmentally friendly clothing stores around toronto, so people would know where to shop if they feel inspired by the exhibit __Monica__: k so i have 2 ideas: 1st off, as we all know, clothes can be reused but never recycled! so why not try to design a type of clothing that can be recycleable after it's ben used. (not saying we should all be wearing paper bags lol but some new cool material maybe futuristic-looking too) my 2nd idea is that we could diplay clothes and show like different ways it can be used like one way obviously donating to poor children, another way could be to use it as like a table cloth to clean etc..... and wed like have fake ppl (scenes) to show how it would be like so like some lady would be cleaning a table with the same shirt that once belonged to someone else, and ya u get my point __Craig:__ I agree with Andrea, and I say we should have some fabric laid out, some made of organic / recycled materials, others made of today's synthesized ones, and let people touch them and then GUESS by pushing a button to see which is organic or not. I think this can draw out some genuine surprise. Also, we should really really have a RUNWAY with mannequins wearing the clothing (while playing Bad Romance LADY GAGA!!!) __Hyder__: I just wanna say I love this idea! and the fasion show as well!!! [|The Show! With Lobster Claws!!]
 * Clothing Store**

__Andrea__: have a button that when pressed shoots out a puff of fog (supposed to be smoke from emissions) similar to the sneeze in human body, and showing that each day on average a factory will emit 2329487 X that amount of smoke... get it? itll basically exemplify the ridiculous amount of emissions from factories and how they contribute to greenhouse gases too __Nicole__: I thought maybe we could have a "dark room" (somewhat like the bat cave) where we could have indicator species on display such as frogs, etc. and show information about how pollutants from factories affect them __Craig:__ I love the indicator species idea, and the sneezing one is funny but when you think about it, it's scarily true. I think we should make something that also displays ways that factories can change to more renewable resources, and show how those will look like. Or...we can show how DAMS for irrigation of water are completely altering landscapes and the such. This is in tangent with something i had in mind for the park (scroll down later.) Nikki: Somewhere inside the factory could be a model of a polluted pond with dead wildlife floating around in it, and sorrounding the pond are manequins in designer clothes. Facing the reader could be two manequins 'looking' at each other, one asking, "So, how much did //your// outfit cost?"
 * Factory**

**House**
__Andrea__: have 2 toilets with a water tank beside them, one water saving and one regular, then when you flush them the water used goes into the tanks, showing how much more water the non-efficient ones waste __Nicole__: leaky faucet- show how much water is wasted a year, and have an interactive "fixing" station __Craig:__ For the house, I definitely want to do something about stand-by electricity, seeing as we use A LOT of it - computers and TVs especially. So what I was thinking was we have "plugs" (not really for safety issues), that when you insert them, a meter or a lightbulb moves/lights up to show how much electricity is being used without the appliance actually being "on". Usually these appliances use standby electricity to keep track of time for clocks. and LOL at teh fixing station i really like that __Monica__: k well i know this isnt much but i was thinking for the house thing we should enforce the whole using-a-key instead of always using the electric code thing and that should only be used for emergencies and it would save a whole lot of batteries which is not recycleable so we would be "Reducing". i also like andreas water thing and adding on to that i was thinking we could talk about water being used in the house in general and if ppl started taking faster showers using less water for sink usage etc and how much water would be saved up. we could also have like a sink thing in the washroom with 2 different tap things and one would bring more water than the other and ppl could see how much more theyd be wasting if they used the more consuming one

**Restaurant**
__Andrea__: someone can add onto this because i don't know how to connect it to sustainability, but what if kids can play/pretend in the kitchen of the restaurant, maybe flip burgers with stats on it? like how much land was needed for the cow? i don't know but i think it'd be a fun exhibit if we can relate it to cooking somehow __Nicole__: I don't know if we have the funding to do this, but maybe we could actually have samples of vegan food (which is good for the environment) made with locally grown things. Then we could show the trophic level stuff with the 10% of energy going up each level __Monica__: k so i was thinking (also for the washroom area) we can like show how much we should reduce the amount of toilet paper we use - unless u guys wanna include this in the home idea - so like we could be like how if we fold our toilet paper we actually end up using more and we can show a pic like those charmin commercial thingies when they compare:P also we could like display actual seating and stuff and show how behind the scenes how much food gets wasted daily cuz ppl dont even think before ordering if they're even hungry enough to eat wat they asked for and ppl should think of at least taking homee the extra food they get instead of throwing it out and especially 4 open buffets we could like compare a person who puts so much food and doesnt end up eating it in contrast with likea person who puts a bit at a time and goes to refill if hes still hungry __Craig:__ I think the restaurant and grocery store should be combined into some crazy sort of marche. As for the restaurant, I think we should have some moving conveyor belt of some sort, that shows how food is processed and what resources are needed - ANOTHER IDEA!!! we have plates set out at a table, but each plate grows in size, from small to big, to show what i said before and the increasing amount of resources needed so that we can eat 1 steak __Hyder__: What about the menu idea? Where you have for e.g. steak and it tells you what the ecological footprint was and how much waste the cow produced as oppposed to ordering a salad. Also, we can emphasize on buying local produce --> less transportation and outsourcing, less fuel needed. __Nikki__: I think it would be cool if we put Hyder and Craig's idea's together. On one side of the table could be the plates increasing in size if a steak is bought. On the other side could be the increasing plate size if a salad was bought. Visitors will be able to see that both use a certain amount of resources, however- one is still better than the other. Also, we could have a shopping cart filled with 'food' from local farms, and another with 'food' from other places in the world. The fresh food can be in a small cart and can be shown to be fresher and have a time-line of what it took and how long to get from the farm to the store. The other can be in a longer sort of cart with a timeline on the side emphasizing how much longer it took to get the produce from one country to the store. ... Darn, this probably fits better in the grocery store, don't it?

**Grocery Store**
__Andrea__: a cash register can scan the pesticides or preservatives in the food items instead of prices __Nicole__: have an interactive fishing exhibit where people can fish for plastic fish (use magnets on the fish and the fishing pole) and have info about overfishing __Craig:__ For the grocery store, I think we should do something about GM foods, and like this exhibit in the human body section, with blue eyes and brown eyes, we can match up some :"DNAs" and see what they produce e.g jellyfish dna + bacteria dna = glowing corn resistant to mosquitoes! __Nikki__: Plastic bag recycling exhibit- have a set up of a completely plastic plastic bag, a biodegradable plastic bag, and a completely biodegradable bag. You can then put the translation of the amount of plastic wasted in bottle form in front of each set of bags. Visitors will be able to see how this decreases as you near the completely biodegradable bag. CRAIG: That's really good Nikki, in fact I have LONGO bags taht say they're 50% biodegradable, and there's this thing saying "please return me to longos" so basically saying to reuse bags. also, there's all that 5 cents for a bag stuff, and THIS BAG IS NOT PLASTIC (uni fair!) that we can show too __Hyder__: we should promote eliminating plastics bags overall, and just using the reusable green shopping bags. I think they're like 99c.

**TTC bus**
__Andrea__: maybe pushing the stop button/pulling the chord can light up statistics or something __Nicole__: maybe the bus could be a "simulator" sort of thing.. so kids can get in the front seat and drive it through an eco- city __Craig:__ I like the simulator idea, and I think we can have ads on the window that show statistics - for example, if the bus carries this amount of people, how much is saved if they all drove cars - essentially showing the advantages of public transportation over 1 person per car. we can also address car pooling. __Hasnain:__ The area where you usually pay for the fare could be used to collect donations towards organizations that promote being green:) __Hyder__: We could have skytrains/busses. They greatly reduce traffic and since the bus has its own track, it would get you to your destination faster that if you drove. We should also have smaller buses and more frequent service, this way, it would encourage people to use public transit because it's consistent. __Nikki__: The outside of the bus could be partially open [just 'cause it looks cool] and the back could have an ad or statistics about the carbon dioxide production and fuel usage of the bus [which carries dozens of people] in comparison to a car [which most of the time, only carries 1-2 people].

**Office**
__Andrea__: The maze can go in the office building so the focus on technology and enery saving that would've been here can go in the technology store, and will ask yes or no questions about what you do in terms of sustainability (do you help the earth or have a large ecological footprint?) __Nicole__: Maybe for this one, the worse your footprint is becoming, we could have the walls or the floors filled with more garbage and stuff? __Craig:__ For the office building, I think it should be combined with the hotel just because I dont want two tall bulidings. I like the idea of the elevator (see hotel), but I dont think installing one would be practical, so we'd probably have to use the moving lights to simulate an elevator and then the door just opening on the other side into the maze. As for the maze, I think it should also eventually move up the staircase (as this is two floored), and have glass-ish walls. as you get increasingly "dirtier" and less environemntally friendly, the walls get dirtier, but eventrually both ways lead you to the top wher eyou can overlook the entire street

**Park**
__Andrea__: the idea we had from before about using bikes to help power the exhibit can be in the park on a bike path through the park or connected to a bike rack, and we're still having the global warming simulator/ball pen and wind tunnel right? __Nicole__: PINE TREES!!!! i think we should have some sort of stats about using pine trees for christmas instead of using an artificial tree (like where they go after they're thrown out etc.) __Craig:__ My idea for the park, if we are still doing the idea of one side full of trash and crap, and the other pristine clean, then on the crap side, I think we should post up pictures form that "urban landscapes" video we watched in bio, because i think they are very....thought provoking. this can be in conjunction with the walking on garbage, but i think visitors should walk AMONGST the garbage because...that's what landfills are - mountains of garbage and it's our crap. As I was typing my own ideas and reading everyone elses...i felt that we have slightly deviated from the "individual". BUT THAT IS OKAY, we DONT have to stick to it, and if ours becomes something else i dont care. but just to "bring it back to you", we can also show 1 garbage can, or those garbage bins we put out on the street, then have like a pile of empty garbage bins to show how much is on one street, then say imagine a city, then a country. __Craig:__ Someone else mentioned this, but like in body worlds with the stacked barrels, someone said we could have the garbage bins lining the walls. just another idea out there. __Hyder__: yepp, the garbage bins, i meant it would give the feeling that we are surrounded by garbage. Is this where we are having the pond with the plastic bottles/fish btw?

**Home Hardware**
__Nicole__: have a fake mine under it or in it to show how bad mining is for the environment __Craig:__ i think this should be with the technology future shop...no ideas here...except what materials are eco friendly, and maybe what the entire exhibit is built of, although i think plaques should be put on each individual exhibit to show what it's made of (if unique) __Nikki__: Personally, I think this store is irrelevant. __Hyder__: I think this would fit under the "future shop" store better

**Hotel**
__Andrea__: an elevator showing the increase in garbage/consumption over time as you go up the floors __Nicole__: planes and their effects on the environment __Craig:__ (please see office), but after typing this i realized i intended the hotel to have the transportation aspect so now i'm not so sure... but i still feel they should be combined because for example, high business corporates use private jets just to fly (GM!!!! HOW DARE YOU ask for money then fly in a private jet) so ya. __Nikki__: Have a set up of a hotel room and have fun facts on the air conditioner, thermostat, bed sheets, showers, and toilets of how much is wasted when you take too much advantage over the hotels facilities. Then again, this could easily be portrayed in the home. __Hyder__: We could also add that since people pay a base fee, they waste a lot of things they do not need. There was also this video I saw about a new German hotel. Check out this ---> [|The Germans] and this ---> [|this is more about sustainibility] while the "german" hotel is more about hotels' technology and guess comfort.

**Exiting Ecological Footprint Test**
__Hasnain:__ I also had the idea of maybe the last exhibit which sums up everything that was said which would be the calculation of your ecological footprint...it could be a glass room. Someone suggested there would be more than one..which would be good too and they would all exit into the actual exit. The user would answer a bunch of questions on the screen and maybe while it is loading similar to that aging machine we all saw it could supplement the information that they just heard in the exhibit. Also when it is done if they have a fairly good footprint comparing to the average the lights will flash green and if not then they will flash yellow or red. Most people would be red which will get them to think once they leave the exhibition. __Craig:__ Ya, this would be good to set up, you know the computers at the survey section in the hotzone? They could be set up in that way. They could also be powered on solar energy...like most of our exhibit should be/could be. __Hyder__: If you guys have been near the rainforest exhibit, there is a water taste test. The ecological footprint could be set up like that or we can draw ideas from it.

**Museum**
__Hyder__: I was thinking we could include a museum. It would include our current technologies as if they were from 100 years ago and state how environmentally unfriendly and 'bad' they are. The museum could also have a biology section which would be in the year 2050. Then we could include endangered animals and be like "Elephant: common until 1980s, extinct since 2020 due to overhunting, last one at Craiggyson Zoo." I was also talking to Craig [Bad Romance!! xD] about having the walls of the exibit just covered in garbage bins, so it would look like we are surrounded by a wall of garbage and we cannot get to the other side. __Craig:__ I actually like this idea. basically if we have this museum, it means we have to show a sustainable street. i also like my zoo. Nikki: Okay, Hyder- ALL those ideas sounded epic to me. =0! __Hyder__: I know you guys decided at school the museum probably isn't the best thing but I think we should still have the animal display, the endangered and extinct one, showing current animals as extinct.