Comments on: Healthy Communities Are No Accident http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=healthy-communities EPA's Blog About Our World Wed, 22 May 2013 15:08:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: bizworldusa http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-52603 bizworldusa Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:33:19 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-52603 Walking is the best way to fit our body.Now a days people become lazy even they want go to next street also they uses bikes etc.. people should take care about their health by doing small excersizes like morning walks.

Thank you for sharing..

]]> By: Greenlet http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-52126 Greenlet Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:18:48 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-52126 I was never really aware of the activities of EPA until one of mu cousin’s started talking about sustainable communities. Your post has given me valuable information and i certainly agree now that healthy communities do not happen by accident but are designed so intentionally. This all totally makes sense.

]]> By: Meal program http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-43021 Meal program Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:51:01 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-43021 The American Journal of Physiology has published the results of a study in which participants were allowed to eat high protein foods, while a second study group was given supplements equal to the recommended daily allowance. Surprisingly, the group that ate protein was the ones that lost the most weight.

]]> By: Linda http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-39641 Linda Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:41:37 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-39641 I enjoy walking where and when I can … which isn’t often when I’m at home: I live on a dirt road in a very rural area. Though the posted speed limit is low, many drivers ignore it; there is not much of a shoulder (or it’s grown up with brush), so you walk in the road or not at all. The closest stores are 6 to 10 miles away. Luckily, I pass by all of them on my way to and from work, so I don’t have to make special trips into town just for the basics – I can pick those up on the way home.

I am glad to see communities addressing the challenges of making certain their communities are accesible by people who cannot or choose not to drive. Those solutions will not be the total answer, but they will be a great help to those who chose to live in town.

]]> By: Michael E. Bailey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-39631 Michael E. Bailey Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:03:08 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-39631 Complete streets is of critical importance to seniors and members of the disability community. In Orange County, we have some cities like Mission Viejo that are working on making all their streets complete streets with well constructed lage sidewalks, , easy to cross streets, accessible bus stops, bike lanes. Other cities, like some of the beach cities, have narrow sidewalks that requires wheelchair users to get out in the street because the sidewalk is to narrow, lack of wheelchair cuts in the sidewalks is a problem in some of these cities, and in some of their neighborhood, the houses and property lines are so near the street that no sidewalks were ever built. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

]]> By: newport beach houses http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-39618 newport beach houses Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:25:37 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-39618 In my country, many people always walk to every where very day

]]> By: Joaquim Trindade da Silva http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-39608 Joaquim Trindade da Silva Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:45:56 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-39608 Parabéns pelo artigo publicado.O Homem terá de defender o ambiente.

]]> By: Emily K http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-39599 Emily K Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:23:59 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-39599 I am glad to hear the EPA is working with agencies like HUD & DOT to make communities and cities more sustainable for people to walk/bike in. One of the reasons I love DC is because you are able to walk safely on sidewalks anywhere in the city. Also back at my school at Indiana University the campus is accessible for both walkers and bikers, which makes it easier to go to class & feel safe. Growing up in the suburbs of Northern Indiana I was thankful to have wide roads in my neighborhood and a trail that led around Indianapolis. I don’t know what I would have done as a child if I wasn’t allowed to walk safely around my neighborhood.
Making areas more sustainable will help the environment with less people driving, make people more active and make neighborhoods & cities more attractive which will build income over time.

]]> By: Diana http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/04/healthy-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-39591 Diana Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:08:25 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=7084#comment-39591 I absulutely understand the issues with complete streets, at one point our communities were built in such rush and standards had changed so much that individuals were left out of the design. The result: spaces for vehicles and no sidewalk or bike walks provided, no compact communtities so eveyone has to take a vehicle to go to the closest store to buy simple things as milk or bread.
In Southwest Florida, we are taking the inititive to create a checklist so this does not happen anymore; a complete street approach. We are also “Taking it to the Streets”, a five county regional exploration of a full range of transportation choices – a ‘Transportation Transformation’ campaign. Transportation events and activities will happen from April 13th to the 23rd.
We hope to obtain enough data from this campaign to shape the needs of our communities and to prove that all individuals have a role in the built environment and that our individual choices can improve our communtities.

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