as the seattle center turns fifty years young we attend a media preview of events just celebrate the next fifty we are at this seattle center for their next this to gain a much greater appreciation of the extraordinary conditions that support life have long been taken for granted for instance we now know that earth is the ideal distance from the sun to be located in the assume people are taking photos and with a little media tour and we'll come back during some of the actual celebration completely different thing than these cards originally draw which were hedges tiny little hedges these are drawn with restoration materials erosion control sedimentation control materials called waddles which is a medieval sounding name for a waddles in a permanent piece because in two years they would not be there they just they just break doubt so this is a great chance to use these temporary materials but then in order not to be wasteful and it's sort of sad to put all this work of the things i especially the work of plants in the space to create the start of another level these plans have to go somewhere so the whole thing when it comes down in november what it and it will be dormant will get kind of chopped up again back into its ten formal formal pattern done with these crazy materials and then as you get to the forest and schools to sort of the roles start to go a little tail wire and it sort of appears to be flowing out from the  and it's all it's been planted entirely with native species will be very good for pollinators in the future in the middle of the summer the whole thing will get a little bit taller definitely greener furrier and will bloom with all the various pieces  bloomed there a lot of craft is in there too and it should attract a lot of interesting facts and other other pollinators right now it sort of attracted the crows so they haven't been they haven't taken the part yet and at it you can just walk through it as it is basically an the space needle is second story for you to see this piece so you can be intimate and walking around in it but then you can get up into the entire places and see what some patterns really looks like and i have had a lot of people you have  i now have with me tracy robinson and she heads up the next fifty and what is exactly your title and executive director of the seattle center foundation and what do you want the folks  this to know about the next fifty we're really excited to have a six month celebration here at seattle center the heart of our community we want people to know we have three goals how do we honor the past how do we celebrate those amazing people who created the original world fair how do we celebrate the communities that we've become with so many wonderful cultural festivals and cultural institutions and the most importantly how do we envision the future what's their next fifty years going to be like and how can we all be part of what designing what that so it's been a big change in fifty years it's been a huge change and i think one of the things we're hoping for is to think about how to work together as a community to make choices about what changes are good for us and what do we want to celebrate and keep from our past and what i mean we've seen a few of the things that are going to be shown in the next six months how many how many of the new things that are being brought to the next fifty will be remaining beyond just the six months i actually don't think any of the items that you've seen today will be remaining past the six months but hopefully some of the locations and the sites that you've got to go and will now be available for new events some of the exceptions will be the cheerfully garden glass will be here into the future and of course i know you have other things to do so what's the web site for more information if you go to seattle center dot com you can check out all the events it changes daily we have over three hundred events as part of the next fifty and we hope to see you many of them are free oh ok well thank you very much your time thank choices that save the environment and have a positive impact on others we're using fork or sorry and we're using fork or topics to address the exhibit in general water and habitat energy food and mobility and the idea is is that it's all connected together and that every choice we make has an impact on one of  these there's eighty interpretive panels in the exhibit and a seventeen minute video the entire exhibit is made out of recycled materials something that we're actually found here at the seattle center others are on loan recycled from a local organization here called repay me they actually collect paint sift it clean it and reuse it and don't need it to nonprofit organizations so now the color coding for the attached to water and habitat are in just food if you see that teal color that means the board is addressing the synergy of all four of these topics and all of the content from the exhibit was donated by a collection of nonprofit organizations and different public agencies and then over this way you're going to have them on this year's right so we're actually calling this the fifth plane and we will have four monitors here that isn't on the on the video that addresses all of these topics and the cumulative response to all of these topics in addition to that we have benches that were made  specifically for the exhibit for people to use for view and those those benches are made from recycled hardwoods that came right here in the city they were on loan from us to us from myer well separate and this will all be ready to go with this is going to open tomorrow morning at ten but as i think so you know they're going to be working through the night as is the case so when you use one hundred percent recycled material that takes a lot more attention and love  and was proper preparation and that sort of thing all of the education materials actually geared towards fifth graders and older however throughout the exhibit in every life plane we have what we are calling the mystery doors and these are five or four feet for children under you know under the age of ten and so there's just a simple graphic and when they left the door there's a science fact for them  a these were neon light casings from the old funk parts here on site at seattle center so the the center folks were kind enough to let us read over this one and then over here i really kind of what we're calling the synergy boards and again this this color is indicative if you see a turquoise board is talking about all four subjects the folks from seattle public utilities worked with the occupier us middle school using gauge monceau and they provided us with ideas of what they're thinking about their thoughts for the future and how to be involved in sustainability this particular panel we what we did was we calculated the embodied energy of the reuse the wall system so for example by having the softest of up for six months it's a quisling to eighteen months of energy that would be used in the average american household everything in the exhibit is recycled and then all of the photography of the content is donated and some of the boards that we're talking about well now this these panels this would is a rock from south beach from the school in maple valley and the idea behind this is we're going to have an exhibit on the evergreen state so this is really kind of meant to take people back to the idea of what the state looked like before seattle grew before it became industrialized really what is that our connection to the natural resources here in washington and i can tell that even though this is just a portion of that of a tree trunk there was even bigger than that yes it was a spectacular tree at one time and again this wood was harvested by meyer well who donated the benches for for viewing the video as well join such as tree planting here in the city the relief program we also look to the future very much in terms of of what we can be doing in the future for example this board is about the patch that is in construction now here at the seattle center on the roof of the mercer garage the old mercer garage this panel is discusses the eco laboratory which has won national awards conceptual project by a local architect here weber thompson and this is all about the future of vertical farming and creating resilient communities by growing your own food in say your apartment or condominium building this particular project has a social benefits well because it actually does is the idea behind it the concept behind it is to do day training for folks who are going through a transitional life or who are homeless it also provides food for those people as well as a hygiene exhibit will come in typically most of the exhibits are rotating every couple weeks because each month of the six months of the festival there's a different topic it's just so happened in this particular space we were able to have nine weeks and then the grand opening what you might call the ribbon cutting for this exhibit is actually on earth day on sunday and speaking of earth day we actually have  a case study of the bullet center and the bullet center is going is considered and will be finished this year is going to be considered the greenest green office building in america and of course the director of the bullet foundation is dennis hays who started earth day forty years ago forty one years ago in one nine hundred seventy one do you have a website for more information  you it will be spent in polish when you get here tomorrow and we will see where else are inside the international zone ten billion where the seattle center foundation has hired mo high museum of history and industry to set up in this case a the old driver seat monorail and i remember all of these buttons as a kid and during the six months that it is here in the building the horses from nine to sixty two and i forgot to say specifically that this particular uniform for those that may remember was the to five and seven days a week and that will have to end our coverage the next fifty here at the seattle center be sure to come down here in the next six months to check out the celebration and have all your travel become an adventure during the next six months celebration ending october twenty first learn more about the daily events the long term events and those that are changing every few weeks or so please visit the next fifty dot org or seattle center dot com please be sure to visit my web site adventure t v dot bravest dot com for regular updates information and links and no archiving as well thank you for watching adventure t