Whether it's a community that's already made strides toward healthy lifestyles, or an amazing local effort of another topic, let's share inspirational stories from communities around the globe.
Identify Success
What are the stories of #Healthy_Lives that we can pull inspiration from?
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Blue Zone USA
Blue Zones is taking lessons learned from the world's longest living cultures and implementing them in communities across the USA.
Meditation in schools
Providing students with the time, space, and structure to meditate reduces stress and violence in SF schools
Healthy Harold Bus!
A program that has been running for a very long time in Australia is called the Healthy Harold Bus!
School organic gardens
There is a way to make healthy food more attractive to children and teens: being part of the process
Encouraging Active Behavior in Day-to-Day Activities
Increasing day to day physical activity by making the more active, healthier option more fun, obvious and easy.
GoQII Fitness Band
GoQII, a product coming from India, is a fitness band and beyond.
Using known faces (local or big time celebrities), via pictures or videos, to show the community emotional excitement of healthy living.
Use visualization of famous or known people to show how fun or just awesome it is to live healthy.
Healing Kitchens Institute
The Healing Kitchens Institute (HKI) at Commonweal serves as an evolving platform for the nexus of science and the culinary arts.
The Fresh Air Club
Motivating San Francisco residents to explore their own backyard.
Telenovelas? ¡Claro que si!
Telenovela storylines centered around healthy living concepts would appeal to prime time crowds in a familiar language and culture setting
A hybrid supermarket-cooking school that offers in-the-aisle cooking classes teaches wellness to families in a familiar setting.
A Supermarket that Inspires You to Cook
A hybrid supermarket-cooking school that offers in-the-aisle cooking classes teaches wellness to families in a familiar setting.
Involving companies that manage cafeterias
Cafeterias are not just for feed, but for education
Food Group Share - Our little community success story
Our local area started a group buying/dining group where we have saved a lot of $ and made life long friends at the same time.
YogaTrail links yogis to studios and teachers
YogaTrail, founded in 2013, links yogis to their practice and is crowdfunding now to develop an app.
Farm to Family Dinner Via Online Shopping
A website connecting customers to farmers, creating a way to visit the farmers market without leaving the house.
