Healthy Communities
Walking, Voting Rights, and Why #SafeRoutestoVote Matters
This blog post was written by Sara Zimmerman and Marisa Jones.
Paper to Pavement: Putting Safe Routes to Parks Plans into Action
Colorful crosswalks. Temporary bike lanes. Playful paths. Creating new green space. These are just a few ways to improve local park access. We just wrapped up work with our first cohort of communities in the Safe Routes to Parks Activating Communities program, which provides individualized consultation, group trainings, and grant funding to nonprofits to improve safe, equitable park access in their communities.
How Driverless Cars Will Interact with a Human World
This blog post was written by Haden Kirkpatrick.
The Grocery Bag Challenge
In 2015, the American Heart Association in Hampton Roads, Virginia added a new dimension to its annual 5k Heart Walk by inviting participants to take the Grocery Bag Challenge. Participants carried an eight-pound grocery bag for one mile of the walk to raise awareness of the difficulty faced by people without convenient transportation or grocery stores close to home. Participants reported that it was much harder than they expected!
Congressional Update: Progress on Spending Bills; Concerns on Automated Vehicles Bill
We’re nearing the end of September, which means it is time for Congress to reach resolution on the annual appropriations process. By September 30, Congress must either pass funding bills for the various federal agencies or extend them through a continuing resolution.