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hyder **A store that cares… not only about its customers but also about the environment. The eco-friendly Future Shop will include a section with a variety of innovative items such as solar panels to power iPods or cables that can be plugged to a bike’s spinning wheel to provide power to handheld electronic devices. Electric cars may also be on display, including hybrids and other concept cars, such as eco cabs or city cars. Other eco- friendly products shown would include computers and other household appliances that run on solar panels. In another section of the exhibit, there will be a display of regular appliances vs. energy star approved appliances. Other sections will incorporate different booths. For instance, a booth that educates visitors about the cost of renewable energy systems. This may also include financial statistic’ with information on how long it will take before the cost of installing solar panels on your roof will outweigh the benefits. The exhibit will also consist of a few “build your own” stations. These would allow visitors the opportunity to build items such as solar panels to more energy efficient tools that can be integrated in their daily lives. The exhibit will be built with recyclable aluminum and any solar panels or wind turbines on display would be fully functional and could potentially be used after the lifespan of the exhibit. **

**Other brand new and innovative items on display could include the smart thermostat; a device that can monitor the electricity usage of your household appliances and turn the various appliances on and off. New solar panels that can be installed quicker and for up to 15% cheaper than traditional solar panels on rooftops will also be on display. Electric bikes such as the YikeBike that can be recharged to 80% capacity in as little as 20 minutes will give visitors the opportunity to try out new transportation alternatives. The Electric Microbe is another inspiring invention which involves tiny microbes producing electricity by feeding on mud and waste-water.Visitors will have the opportunity to observe this system and increase their knowledge of 21st century engineering. A 'green wall' building upon the idea of the Science Centre Green Roof would educate visitors of the benefits and the Future Shop would be a place where they could potentially purchase these plants from. A few more displays are the eco-vending machine, to be powered by the customer pedaling a stationary bike attached to the machine. ** **The objective of this particular exhibit is to have the visitors leaving with the idea that a small change can go a long way. You can still be a technology enthusiast yet be environmentally friendly and reduce your ecological footprint. Visitors will realize that being environmentally friendly starts at home and in small increments. You do not need to replace your TV or computer; you can attach them onto renewable energy sources or you can buy power bars from the future shop that automatically turn off at night to prevent electricity use even when the appliances are turned off. **  
 * The Future Shop is a place where customers can make an informed decision before purchasing their household appliances. This would include conspicuous facts about energy savings and information on production materials and sources including any toxic metals/chemicals used in manufacturing. Stations will be set up where visitors can explore the simplicity of building their own solar panels or mini wind turbines that can be used to power their electronic devices. Visitors will also have the opportunity to exercise on stationary bikes, which will in turn generate electricity. They would also be able plug in their iPods and watch as it recharges. **  

//**ANDREA:**// //**The Ecoplex Centre**// //**The Ecoplex Centre is a mall containing the clothing and cosmetics store, representing the shopping or fashion aspect of the street. The focal point of this building will be the runway exhibit, where mannequins will be dressed in sustainable clothing. The purpose of this runway is to demonstrate that organic or recycled clothing can be both sustainable and chic, and to disprove the preconceived notion that sustainable clothing is not fashionable. Stores where the clothing can be purchased will also be advertised along the runway, like Lulu Lemon and Urban Outfitters.

The next exhibit in the clothing store is the fabric matching game, where visitors can feel and compare swatches of fabric. They are either sustainable, like organic cotton, or synthetic, like polyester. The visitor will then guess which fabric is which, and discover if their prediction is correct by reading the answer on the back of the fabric. The purpose of this matching game is to show that there is no difference in quality between sustainable and synthetic fabrics, but that both are durable, soft and fashionable.

The cosmetics section of the store will contain a black light photo exhibit to show the skin damage caused by ultraviolet radiation. The exhibit will relate to the hole in the ozone layer, which has caused more radiation to reach the earth’s surface. The photograph will expose the areas which have been affected by this increasing amount of UV radiation, teaching the visitors the importance of sun block and protecting your skin from these harmful rays.

The other exhibit in the make-up section of the store is called “Would you Eat this for Dinner?” The average woman consumes over 6 pounds of lipstick (over 500 tubes) in a lifetime. When these lipstick tubes are thrown out, harmful ingredients like emollients are still present, leaching into the ground from the landfill. These pollutants can then make their way into bodies of water, where they are harmful to marine life. This is not sustainable for the environment, as the lipstick remnants harm sea life. The exhibit will enlighten visitors to the fact that make-up products are not created with sustainability in mind, but they can make more environmentally friendly choices when it comes to lipstick. They can choose products made with natural ingredients instead, like shea butter and coconut oil. These lipsticks still fulfill their function and do not have a harmful effect on the environment.

These exhibits comprise the Ecoplex Centre, the mall where sustainability is incorporated into style to promote environmentally friendly fashion choices.**//

//**NICOLE:**// //**Grocery Store:**// //**The Restaurant is a building containing exhibits on food, ranging from pesticides to creating energy from leftovers.

One exhibit is a burger flipping station, where visitors can flip their burgers and see the stats contained on them. Some examples of these statistics are; an average person consumes 50lbs of beef per year, farm animals create more greenhouse gases then all the vehicles in the world, and a meat based diet requires seven times more land than a plant based one. The goal of this exhibit is to persuade visitors to eat more vegetarian meals a week, which will decrease the effects of our eating habits on the environment.

Another exhibit in this building is the Local food versus International food display. This is a timeline that shows how many more resources are needed to bring in international food than locally grown food, which will influence visitors to buy locally. Similar to this, there is another exhibit which shows the amount of land needed per food item. This is expressed through using bigger plates for items that require more land, and smaller for those that need less.The goal of these exhibits is to promote eating organic and unprocessed food, which require less resources to make.

An additional food related problem is chemicals. These are things like pesticides, and genetically modified foods. In order to raise awareness of this, there is an exhibit in which visitors scan the pesticide amount in foods, and there is another exhibit where food is matched to the chemical that modifies it.

Besides chemicals, a common problem is deciding what to do with leftover food. In this building, information is provided about what can be done with leftover food. This includes things like utilizing it to make renewable energy through a new technology involving bacteria, or donating to kitchens that feed underprivileged individuals. Leftover food also raises another complication; what bin do you put them in? The Whack-A- Bin exhibit helps visitors gain knowledge of what goes in each bin, by presenting them with items that they must place in the correct bin for the maximum amount of points.

All these exhibits lead to building with an important message; you can eat healthily for yourself and the planet.**//

The Park The park is an area in the middle of the exhibition and will be the first area the visitors will see as they enter the exhibition. The park will be made up of synthetic grass and trees and will include the normal park design. There will be benches and trails for visitors to follow that lead to each of the exhibits in the park. The park includes only a few exhibits that have to do with preserving the environment and statistics that concern aspects such as wildlife and forestry. These statistics will be displayed on benches as well as mounted on to trees that are adjacent to the walking trails. Some of these statistics include; nearly four billion trees are cut down annually for paper production, the world’s consumption of paper has grown by four hundred percent in the past 40 years, and every 20 minutes, the world adds another 3,500 human lives but loses one or more entire species of animal or plant life.
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One major part of The Park is the Global Warming Exhibit in which a simulation of the heat rays being trapped in the atmosphere is presented using bouncing balls trapped in a play area. This area will allow visitors to bring their children into our exhibition and allow for diversity in terms of age groups within our exhibition but will also accurately demonstrate the situation of Global Warming in our atmosphere.

On top of pathways The Park will also contain bike racks which will allow visitors to ride stationary bikes that will supply energy for the exhibition. As the visitor uses their body’s energy to peddle, a meter on the bike will show how many kW of energy is being produced, similar to a hamster on a wheel. This will not only allow visitors to enjoy the experience of producing their own energy through exercise, but it will also help develop the understanding that energy can be produced using ‘greener’ methods. This will also support the ideology of biking to nearby places rather than using a car.

This exhibit should leave visitors thinking about how industrialization has caused plants and wildlife to significantly decrease in numbers. Visitors may leave thinking of methods of changing their ways in terms of recycling and reusing materials in order to decrease the consumption of Earth’s forests. On top of this, visitors will become more conscious of how the construction of houses and buildings destroy habitats for other species in the environment.

 //** African Conservancy: Wildlife & Cultural Preservation in Africa. (n.d.). //African Conservancy: Wildlife & Cultural Preservation in Africa//. Retrieved November 26, 2009, from http://www.africanconservancy.org/about/documents/Facts.pdf Martin, S. (n.d.). ecology.com | Paper, Trees, Manufacturing, Environment. //The Ecology Global Network | Ecology News and Information for Residents of Planet Earth//. Retrieved November 26, 2009, from http://ecology.com/features/paper chase
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Sustainacity Theatres//**
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 * //The Sustainacity Theatres will provide an area in which visitors may sit down and watch 15-20 minute presentations on several topics related to sustainability of the environment. Some of these topics include global warming, the ecological footprint and the affects of the over consumption of natural resources. These presentations will be conducted every two hours throughout the day by hosts of the Ontario Science Centre. There will be a stage area where a host can stand and present these topics as well as current statistics that are related to sustainability. During the two hour intervals clips from movies and music videos will be shown that relate to the affects of environmental degradation. Some examples include The Inconvenient Truth, The Day After Tomorrow, Wall-E, and Waiting on the World to Change. The theatre will allow seating for about 35 individuals and the stage will be set up right in front of the screen so seating can be used for both watching presentations and video clips.//**

Office Building Businesses and companies need to be mindful of environmental concerns when creating and distributing products in order to provide a good image for their consumers. As environmental issues come to the forefront, more companies are becoming environmentally-friendly. However, it is not only the businesses that need to make clean choices, but the consumers as well. Since we are all part of the business cycle, it is important for everyone to make environmentally-friendly choices. In the office building of our exhibition, a labyrinth of office cubicles provides visitors a chance to test their choices by asking a series of questions that pertain towards the environment and consumerism. The maze is designed so that at critical points the visitor is asked a quick yes-or-no question about the environment. Questions include://**
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 * **//Do you drive to the mall to purchase items?//**
 * **//Do you use public transit during your daily commutes?//**
 * **//Do you consider the materials used to create the product you are buying?"//**
 * **//Do you consider the process the product undergoes during manufacturing?"//**
 * **//When buying food, do you consider whether the item has been treated with pesticides?"//**
 * **//Do you buy Canadian made products?//**
 * **//Do you consider how the manufacturer of a product disposes of wastes?//**


 * //and other questions that deal with business and the environment. These questions are meant to be answered quickly, so visitors may move efficiently throughout the maze. Once they have answered "yes" or "no", the visitor follows a designated path based on the answer they have provided to the question. At the end of the maze, the visitor will see whether or not they make sustainable choices about their purchases in everyday life.//**

 <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; text-align: left;">**//It is an eminent fact that air pollution is one of the major consequences of our actions. We use carbon dioxide producing cars, trains, planes, and motorboats without thinking of its toll on the environment. Too often does one find the streets of Toronto glutted by a sea of cars occupied by only one person. On the road beside the park, visitors may find an open cross- section of a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) public bus. The goal of the exhibit is to persuade more people to use public transit.
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This is done by displaying statistics on using public transit versus a car. Visitors can pull the stop cords, which will then light up to show facts such as//** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; text-align: left;">
 * **//using public transit saves 1.4 billion gallons of gas and decreases carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 million tons each year//**
 * **//the average car will spill 34.4 Kg of hydrocarbons, 4029.3 Kg of carbon dioxide and 29.6 Kg of nitrogen oxides in one year//** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9.6pt; text-align: left;">
 * //Another feature of the TTC bus is a simulator at the driver's seat that allows the visitor to travel through an eco-friendly city. This allows visitors to gain knowledge and ideas by seeing an alternate way of living, and experience first hand what a green city looks like. Through this exhibition, we wish to emphasize the benefits of public transportation and how we can minimize the pollution generated each day by making changes in our commuting habits.//** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: right;">

The factory is the building that educates and puts the visitor ‘behind the scenes’ of where all their material possessions come from and how pollutants from manufacturing certain items are detrimental to the environment.
 * //The factory by Nikki

When first walking into the exhibit, the visitor sees a polluted pond where two mannequins wearing designer clothes are having a chat. One mannequin asks, “So, how much was//** **//your//** **//outfit?” It is a typical question anyone would ask, but instead of responding by just giving the price, the second mannequin says something along the lines of, “Just a dirty lake, a few hundred dead fish, oh, and, on top of that- $300.” This is basically the introduction to the factory exhibit whose main theme is the ‘consequences of materialism’. The pond itself will have fish made of plastic bottles, each with a message inside saying something like, “I was killed because of an oil spill.” The visitors may fish these out as they please and read the messages. Since the pond is in the centre of the factory, the visitors may choose to go left or right. On the right is an air pollution simulator. It is a glass box with popup trees and a pump at the back that continuously pumps in dirty air. There is a timer at the front of the box that fast forwards so that 5 seconds equals 1 year, and over time, the trees pop down as air pollution increases. This shows the visitor what effects pollution has if we continue dirtying the air at the current rate.

Further to the back of the factory, visitors will find themselves ‘walking on garbage’. A floor of trash will be covered by plexi-glass to simulate this, and at the end, garbage cans will be stacked up, representing the amount of garbage used at home and on a city street. This gives the visitor a better understanding of how much is thrown out in accumulation. The last exhibit is located on the left portion of the factory and is called the ‘Indicator Species’ exhibit. There are various species in tubes on a conveyor belt moving towards their ‘death’. Each tube is labelled as ‘dying’ and a button can be pushed to reveal the species that is going extinct due to pollution caused by factories. This shows the visitor how pollution is effecting other species, and not just ourselves.

Thus, the Factory exhibit should leave a strong impression on the visitor, and encourage them to waste less in order to save the various organisms being effected.//**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The House is a very important building included in the exhibition as it represents an area in which every individual spends time for a significant portion of the day. To improve our society we have to first start off by changing the way we live in our household. The different areas inside the house revolve around two major issues that affect planet Earth: water and electricity consumption. In addition to these concepts, there will also be an exhibit on the overuse of toilet paper where visitors will be informed on the amount of trees that could be saved if less toilet paper was consumed. Statistics will be shown on paper rolls which will be situated beside the toilets. When the visitors enter they will go to the “bathroom” exhibit where two toilets are placed beside each other. The first toilet is the most commonly used toilet and the second toilet is a water-reducing toilet. In this section, the visitors get to flush each toilet and see how much water each toilet uses. This provides a way for visitors to compare the two types of toilets and shows that both are equally efficient in terms of usage. However, it will be made clear that the water saving toilet is better for the environment. The second section is the leaky faucet where the visitors are shown how much water leaky faucets can actually waste. Here, they get a hands-on experience of fixing faucets using simple and real-life methods, which will allow visitors to acquire a new method for saving water. Another exhibit will be a room where the visitors can see the amount of electricity that is unnecessarily used throughout most households. In one area numerous standby appliances will be connected to one large power plug. This portrays how many appliances are using energy in a single household even though we think they are turned off. There will also be a section that has 3 light bulbs: incandescent, <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;">fluorescent, and LED. The light bulbs will light up and have a voltage meter showing how much electricity each of them use, concluding that incandescent bulbs are more energy-demanding while LED bulbs are more energy efficient and better for the environment. In another section a light switch will allow statistics to light up and will convey how much pollution is released when lights are left on while the rooms are not in use. The last exhibit is found in a room that resembles a kitchen where visitors open different cabinets and see household products that are environmentally friendly and easy to find. A small brochure on the top 10 household products will also be available for the visitors to take in this area. The House should leave visitors thinking about the inefficient uses of electricity within their own homes and should leave them well informed with methods in order to improve the use of electricity within their households. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%;">
 * //House by Monica partially edited by Hasnain//**