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Lifers Stops:

• Tour landing page

• Stop 1: Key facts about the fast fashion industry 🔍 ❕ 👚 🏛

  • • In this part of the Lifers exhibition, learn the facts about water, workers, warming, and waste that you’ll need for many of the Lifers activities and the escape room phase of the Minecraft world.

• Stop 2: Key facts about climate change 🔍 🔥 🏛

  • • In this section of Lifers, you’ll learn more about what climate change is, and the main causes of it. You’ll also discover what inspired the soundscape inside Lifers.

• Stop 3: Lifers Exhibition and Artist's Statement 🔍

  • • When artists create a work of art, they will often write an Artist’s Statement to let people know more about the art, such as: what inspired it, what they hope you take away from it, or other information they want the viewers to know. Discover Noelle Hamlyn’s Artist’s Statement about Lifers in this stop on your virtual tour.

• Stops 4-16: Lifers Exhibition 🔍 ❕ 🔥

  • • The names of these stops on your Lifers tour are inspired by some of the featured Lifers that you can see from this location. As you look at the Lifers, think about the stories these clothes could tell if they could speak. What do you imagine about their previous owners? If you could pick some of your own clothes to tell your story, what would you pick? Why?

Gallery Stops:

• Stop 17: Europe: Plastics 🔍 

  • • In this info-filled stop in the Samuel European Galleries, learn how the Industrial Revolution sparked an accelerated age of climate change. Find out how plastic changed from a valuable, rare material to literal trash. And discover why scientists think we are in a new era of extinction called the Anthropocene.

• Stop 18: Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific: Sustainable clothing 🔥 👚

  • • At this stop in the Shreyas and Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, The Americas, and Asia-Pacific, discover the impact of fast fashion on the environment, and learn about some amazing sustainable solutions.

• Stop 19: Egypt: Food and Drink 🔍 ❕ 👚

  • • This section of the Galleries of Africa: Egypt explores what daily life was like for ancient Egyptians. At this stop, learn more about what the Egyptians ate, how they prepared their food, and how the way they ate can teach modern humans about living more sustainably.

• Stop 20: Egypt: Agriculture 🔍 🔥

  • • This section of the Galleries of Africa: Egypt explores what daily life was like for ancient Egyptians. At this stop, learn more about how the ancient Egyptians worked with livestock like cattle and donkeys to plough their fields and carry their grain, and discover how agriculture on a large scale can cause serious changes to the ecosystem.

• Stop 21: Hands-on Biodiversity: Backyard Biodiversity  🔍 👚 🏛

  • • At this stop in the Patrick and Barbara Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on Biodiversity, we see that biodiversity exists even in your own backyard. We take a look at some facts about household waste, and steps you can take to help conserve biodiversity at home or at school.

• Stop 22: Hands-on Biodiversity: Naturalize your Garden 🔍 ❕ 👚

  • • At this stop in the Patrick and Barbara Keenan Family Gallery of Hands-on Biodiversity, learn more about native Ontario plants and the biodiversity they support, and how you can help restore natural habitats with local plants and green spaces.

• Stop 23: Biodiversity: Tree Cookie 🔍 🔥 👚 🏛

  • • At this stop in the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity, learn about the massive “tree cookie,” how the historic labels have been reinterpreted to reflect modern knowledge and understanding, and how it acts as a symbol for the vast forest loss that contributes to climate change.

• Stop 24: Biodiversity: Coral Reef 🔍 ❕ 👚

  • • At this popular spot in the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity, discover the incredible diversity of coral reefs, learn about the threats to these sensitive ecosystems, and discover how a group of students used the popular game Minecraft to help rebuild their damaged local reef.

• Stop 25: Biodiversity: The Arctic ❕ 👚

  • • At this stop in the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity, discover how climate change affects the sensitive arctic ecosystem. Learn how predators are affected by loss of sea ice, how temperature changes affect animals that rely on colour changes for survival, and how Indigenous peoples are particularly affected by these changes.

• Stop 26: Biodiversity: Rainforest 🔍 🔥 ❕ 👚 🏛 

  • • At this stop in the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity, discover the incredible diversity of species in the tropical rainforest, and the close connections that form the tropical ecosystem. Learn about the main causes of biodiversity loss in the rainforest, and explore how some local farmers turned butterflies into a brilliant climate solution.

• Stop 27: Biodiversity: Boreal Forest 🔍 🔥 ❕ 👚

  • • At this stop in the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity, learn about this amazing ecosystem that covers a huge part of the northern hemisphere. Explore how the climate is affected by where our food comes from, and discover the feast hidden inside the forest.

• Stop 28: Rocks and Minerals: Natural Changes ☁

  • • At this sparkly stop in the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth’s Treasures, discover how rocks can tell stories about natural events that affected the climate long before any humans walked the Earth.

• Stop 29: Rocks and Minerals: Electric Vehicles 🔍 ❕

  • • At this stop in the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth’s Treasures, learn how the production of electric vehicles as a response to climate change comes with problems of its own, and how the production of rechargeable batteries can affect the ecosystem.

• Stop 30: Dawn of Life: Dawn of Climate ☁

  • • At this ancient stop in the Wilner Madge Gallery: Dawn of Life, discover how the fossils of some of the oldest living things on our planet tell the story of how they shaped the Earth’s earliest climates.

• Stop 31: Dawn of Life: Fossil Fuels 🔍 🔥 👚

  • • At this stop in the Wilner Madge Gallery: Dawn of Life, discover how the fossils of ancient life became the fossil fuels that drive climate change today.

Games for Change has some great resources for learning about fast fashion and choices for sustainability. You can find all of them at the link below, or visit them individually in the following lists.

Games for Change: Recycle the Runway

Fast Fashion

• Games for Change: What is Fast Fashion?

• Talking to kids about fast fashion and the environment by National Geographic

• UN Alliance aims to put fashion on path to sustainability

• Post-consumer textile waste and disposal: Differences by socioeconomic, demographic, and retail factors

• These facts show how unsustainable the fashion industry is

Synthetic Fibers

• Games for Change: Synthetic Fibers

• The contribution of washing processes of synthetic clothes to microplastic pollution

• Fast fashion’s addiction to synthetic fibres

• Synthetics & Sustainable Synthetics: Global Production

• Virgin synthetics can be hard to recycle

Social Media and the Trend Cycle

• Games for Change: Clothing Hauls and Social Media - Shortening of the Fashion Trend Cycle

• Good On You Sustainability Ratings

• What is Greenwashing?

Fast Fashion and Human Rights

• Games for Change: Fast Fashion and its Effects on the Global South

• Fast Fashion and Poverty Wages

• #PayUp Campaign

• The Impact of Fast Fashion on Garment Workers

• Child Labour in the Fashion Supply Chain

• Abuse and harrassment of women in the Fashion Industry

• How Fast Fashion is using the Global South as a dumping ground for textile waste

• The Aftermath of Fast Fashion: How Discarded Clothes Impact Public Health and the Environment

• Behind the Seams: Fast Fashion's Violation of Human Rights

• How the Global South is confronting the textile waste crisis

Alternatives to Fast Fashion

• Games for Change: Alternatives to Fast Fashion

Additional Resources

• Fashion Transparency Index

• The UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion

• Sustainable Fashion - A Guide for Teachers

• How Much Clothing do we Waste?

• The True Cost of Fast Fashion

• thredUP's Fashion Footprint Calculator

• Buy This, Not That! Project from Family Consumer Sciences

Games for Change has some great resources for building Stronger and Greener Communities. You can find all of them at the link below, or visit them individually in the following lists.

Games for Change: Stronger and Greener Communities

EcoRise links

• EcoRise.org

• EcoRise Climate Resilience Lessons

• EcoRise Sustainable Intellingence Program

Environmental Justice and Indigenous Rights

• Games for Change: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Rights

• What is Environmental Justice?

• How loss of historical lands makes Native Americans more vulnerable to climate change

• Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool

• Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook

Other Resources

• Map of US Billion-dollar Weather and Climate Disasters

• A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings

• Causes and Effects of Climate Change by National Geographic

• Youth for Climate Action: Breaking Barriers

Games for Change has some great resources for water and ocean health. You can find all of them at the link below, or visit them individually in the following lists.

Games for Change: Be Ocean Wise

The Ocean and Us

• Games for Change: The Ocean and Us

• The Oceans and Humans are Connected

• The Ocean Makes Earth Habitable

Species at Risk

• Games for Change: Ocean Wise's Species at Risk (SAR) Education Kit

• Species at Risk Education Kit

Plastics and Ocean Health

• Games for Change: Plastics and Ocean Health

• Ocean Wise's Ocean Plastic Education Kit

• Micro-Mystery - Ocean School - A lab activity to explore microplastics in salts

• What Happens to Microplastics in the Ocean?

• Plastic: The good, the bad, and the ugly (grade 8-12)

• Plastic Tracker - The Ocean Cleanup

Seaforestation

• Games for Change: Seaforestation: A Solution

• Ocean Wise Seaforestation - Plant Kelp, Fight Climate Change

• The Kelp Forest Ecosystem: Brain Waves Episode 2

Whales

• Identifying Cetaceans of the Salish Sea

• A New View on Killer Whales

• Underwater Noise Pollution - Hakai Magazine

• Beluga Mother and Calf Communication

Youth Action & Optimism

• Youth to Sea - Exlpore projects youth are leading for the ocean

• Meet our Members - TakingITGlobal - Explore youth around the world taking action for the planet

• Conservation Optimism blog

Additional Resources

• Ocean Wise Media Library

• BC Seaforestation Report

• Pollution Tracker - How polluted is your ocean?

• Ocean Wise Shoreline Cleanup

• This is a Sustainable Fish