Video: 2 Minutes To A Healthy City
This two-minute video was produced by the Healthy Eating, Active Living Cities Campaign, a California partnership that works with cities "to adopt policies that will improve the physical activity and food environments for all residents." The Campaign emphasizes land use, healthy foods and employee wellness, and maintains a very useful library of policies adopted by 102 California cities (so far).
The video is as good a short, well-produced introduction to the subject as I have seen:
This post originally appeared on the NRDC's Switchboard blog.
Kaid Benfield is the director of the Sustainable Communities program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law, co-founder of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, and co-founder of Smart Growth America coalition, and author of several books on cities, smart growth and sprawl.
Watch for Kaid’s forthcoming book,
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