I loved the smart car. Imagine selling the car by providing the customer a means to pay for it. By partnering with a respected solar company in the community to provide the technology a customer can use an inverter to sell electricity to the grid. The money earned from selling power to the grid will offset the cost of the car and electricity to run the vehicle. Everyone wins, especially the air quality. A local company to approach is Canadian Solar.

Within my neibourhood there is a park near by without any appropriate signage for recycling. I would like to see more advertisements on recycling in these small community parks. Signage is a huge visual aid for people to get involved in how to recycle more often.

I would like to see cigarette disposable bins displayed throughout the city attached to garbage containers on streets. I find that many smokers don't know where they can find a outage where they are smoking so they end up throwing it on the ground which is terrible for the environment. Have visibly disposable cigarette butt containers available around city.

My issue is water and electricity conservations. I would like to see a way to collect storm water to potentially save on water we use, such as grey water. We dont need toilet water to be drinkable, we can reuse grey water for that purpose.

My name is Colin Campbell and I am lucky to have two passions in life, triathlon and sustainability. As a professional triathlete and entrepreneur, I aspire to push my limits in both. Over the past year, alongside getting my pro card, competing at World Championships and working as a Business Sustainability Consultant at Canadian Tire, I’ve also been working on a start-up called PowerBarr, a company making solar charging stations for consumer electronics. It has been an amazing journey so far, going through two product design cycles and coming up with the solar charging station we’ve just introduced to the market. This start-up will be launching a Kickstarter campaign in November aiming to bring solar charging stations to the Greater Toronto Area. As a result of my involvement with this start-up, combined with having a strong relationship with a triathlon event management company in Ontario, a SMART idea was born. That smart idea is to introduce mobile solar coffee stands to the market! Plugging into the PowerBarr, coffee drinkers will be able to buy a coffee brewed from renewable energy, resulting in a significantly smaller carbon footprint. Coffee drinkers will now be able to charge up their mobile devices using renewable energy and get the energy they need at the same time. Aside from having a minimal physical footprint, being mobile and solar means it can pretty much go anywhere. The coolest part about the story is that the coffee is processed from solar power as well. The women’s cooperative in Honduras where it comes from uses solar power to process the bean. Traditionally, rainforest would be cut down and burned. Now, by using solar power it eliminates the release of CO2 into the atmosphere, in turn positively impacting the local community and environment. With a perspective of looking at life as one big opportunity, the name Full Cup Coffee has come to be. We could all use a cup of optimism and inspiration anyway. My vision is to design a compact “stand-in-bag” for ease in transportation and setup, and to bring Full Cup Coffee to triathlons and athletic events around the world. And the wheels are already in motion. With a friend, a designer at one of Canada’s late telecommunications companies, we have begun designing the stand and solar awning. During the 2014 triathlon race season in Ontario, Full Cup Coffee will be present at all Multisport Canada events. The plan is to develop the idea to give others, athletes in particular, an opportunity to setup their own businesses to help support athletes on their journey to the podium. The sales of coffee mugs at each stand will go a step further to supporting kids in the playground as well; making a donation for every mug sold to Jumpstart, a charity helping give kids a sporting chance. From the playground to the podium, this idea will help make a healthier environment and strengthen communities, in Canada and aboard. Lastly, launching this idea using an electric vehicle for transportation of the compact stand to events would be the icing on the cake of cool factors in the ‘story behind the cup’!

On our campus in kingston we dont have much solar energy. In the gym we would like to have the machines we work out on power other sources of energy. They are being used on a daily basis and could benefit from this.

I would like to see Solar energy being used for our school to have the solar energy panels on the rooftop. This would help conserve energy as well as encourage students to think more eco friendly.

Low impact development for storm water management such as rain gardens, rain barrels, etc. The idea is to control storm water.

Greening yard, naturalize a part of your green space so it becomes a habitat. Gravel driveways will help storm water which collects the water and help our trees. Native plants provide habitat for pollinators. These are things people can do on a private level, but 50,000 can fund a neighborhood to be a pilot program. Storm water is a huge issue, you can capture it on your own through these ways.

"Conquering the maze of decisions" is an interactive art display that challenges every person in society to experience the true costs of their daily decisions. Everybody goes through life playing multiple roles. We aim to visualize the environmental impacts of these decisions. The art installation is based on the idea of "Choose your own adventure", where the public can choose a role they play in daily life (for example, as a parent, worker, consumer, etc) and try to make their way through the maze. At each crossroad in the maze they are faced with important decisions that come with each role. For example, as parents, they need to decide between the different types of transportation for their families, whether it is public transit, smart cars or SUVs. Depending on what decisions they make, at the end of the path they experience a realistic visualization of the impacts of their decisions. If the parent decide to use pesticides on their lawn, for example, they might be presented with bodies of birds poisoned by it, or a sample of polluted water from the production of pesticides. By stimulating all their senses, the exhibit will truly immerse them in the consequences of their decisions. However, people are allowed to replay in order to explore alternative outcomes that would hopefully lead to them making better decisions in their own lives. But we also remind them that "in real life, there is no replay."

In my school community i find that students are not recycling properly. I would like to see more separated recyclable bins around my school that outlines different recyclable materials. Many students are just throwing out garbage and materials in the wrong bins because the current bins are not easily accessible or easy to read.

I am finding that in my neighborhood the lights in schools are kept on throughout the day and overnight while no one is in the rooms. Why not create a light system that automatically turns off when no one is in the rooms. This would conserve more energy.