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Trump Infrastructure Plan Needs A Better Funding Source

By on July 5, 2017 in Health, Infrastructure

President Trump has a plan to pay for $1 trillion in infrastructure improvements over the next 10 years through various pseudo privatization schemes. There are still a lot of unknowns but the basic gist is; a private corporation is given rights to build and maintain some bit of infrastructure (or given existing infrastructure to care […]

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Podcast #97: Cities, Welfare, and Block Grants with Dana DeMaster

By on February 21, 2017 in Governance, Health, Podcast

The podcast this week is a conversation with Dana DeMaster, a program evaluator who focuses on poverty and public health programs at the State and County level. Dana is also on the streets.mn board, and a long-time advocate for better bicycling in Minnesota. We sat down a while ago to discuss how cities and counties deliver […]

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Tapping the Power of Place to Keep Us All Healthy

By on January 9, 2017 in Demographics, Health

One number stands above all others as the best indicator of good health.  It’s not your blood pressure, cholesterol level, average daily calories or even the age at which your grandparents die.  It’s your zip code. This fact has sent shockwaves across the county.  The chief aspiration of American democracy is that everyone deserves an […]

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20 Reasons Americans are Rediscovering Walking

By on November 21, 2016 in Health, Walking

Following Surgeon General’s prescription, Americans have rediscovered that a simple stroll is good for health, happiness and social harmony. Walking is not just a good idea, it’s a growing movement that can boost our health, happiness, economy and sense of social harmony.  This article outlines 20 signs that walking is picking up speed across America—a […]

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Made for Walking

By on November 18, 2016 in Health, Urban Design, Video

In small and mid-sized towns across the United States the daily decisions on design are literally making our health worse.  We need to go back to a system where we designed cities for humans.  Below is a link to my PechaKucha presentation from the Mayo Clinic Transform 2015 Symposium.  

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Downzoning Does a Disservice to Minneapolitans of All Ages

By on September 7, 2016 in Health, Walking

I’ve walked thousands and thousands of miles with Tank in the past eight years. Probably more than half of them have been in Lowry Hill East, where I lived for the first three of those years. It’s one of the most senior-friendly areas of Minneapolis, with its commercial corridors, transit, and density of people. As […]

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Chart of the Day: Bicycling Health Benefits at Different Pollution Levels

By on September 7, 2016 in Bicycling, Chart, Environment, Health

This chart from the Financial Times is impossible to pass up, showing the health benefits of urban bicycling at different levels of particulate pollution. The article includes a helpful cycling benefits chart generator, where you plug in the current Twin Cities’ PM2.5 air quality measurement and it gives you a cool chart showing the relationship between exercise […]

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Map of walking route history using Moves App

Track Your Moves

By on April 8, 2016 in Bicycling, Health, Maps, Transportation, Walking

Since using MapMyWalk in 2009 to log a dog walk, I’ve been hooked on mapping my movement. I like knowing the number of miles I’ve clocked and looking back on all of the neighborhoods I’ve explored on the map. Over the years, I’ve used various iPhone apps and one by one they’ve fallen out of […]

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Don’t Go to the Gym

By on February 3, 2016 in Carfree, Cars, Health, Sidewalks, Transportation, Walking

Last fall I joked that I was working on a theme of four word post titles and someone tweeted me a helpful topic suggestion about not driving to the gym (apologies to whomever made the suggestion, I can’t seem to find it anymore). At the time, I thought it was a good idea but that I’m […]

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Quick Hits: Why We Want Kmart, Dutch Demo Project, and More

By on December 2, 2015 in Bicycling, Carfree, Development, Health, Infrastructure, Traffic, Transportation, Urban Design, Urbanism

I’ve got a very long list of posts that I’d like to write but I don’t have time to write them and I’m sure most readers don’t want to take that much time to read them. So, here are a few in brief. Would Removing Kmart Harm Nicollet Avenue? Nicollet Avenue is a fairly nice […]

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