Disney World

Changes continue at Epcot’s INNOVENTIONS pavilions with Walt Disney World opening a new corporate-sponsored interactive technology display that strips away the myth of the “garbage fairy” and announcing another that will help people to prepare for severe weather. The “garbage fairy” myth is exposed through a new hands-on exhibit, in the east INNOVENTIONS pavilion, called “Don’t Waste It,” sponsored by Waste Management.
The weather technology area will be called “StormStruck: The Tale of Two Homes,” developed by Disney and FLASH, a non-profit group formed by several for-profit companies. Scheduled to open late this summer, the area will give visitors feel for severe weather such as a hurricane. After they experience “the storm,” they’ll have an opportunity to learn about cutting edge research relating to weather and the latest recommendation for protecting homes.
FLASH stands for the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes Inc., and includes Bermuda-based catastrophic reinsurance company RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., its U.S. affiliate for catastrophic weather modeling, WeatherPredict Consulting Inc., the construction supply company Simpson Strong-Tie and State Farm insurance.
Waste Management’s Don’t Waste It opened last week, providing visitors with educational games that help them understand what happens to garbage and how they might reduce their “personal trash profiles.”
“I think we all believe a ‘garbage fairy’ makes the trash magically disappear,” said Eric Goodman of Walt Disney Imagineering, who headed the creative team that developed Don’t Waste It. “We assume the trash we see isn’t our garbage; that it’s everyone else’s garbage. As I began to meet the people of Waste Management, the second half of the trash story began to become much clearer.”

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