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Workshop: Co-benefits of Walking and Cycling

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Walking and cycling provide significant health benefits by increasing levels of physical activity. These active modes of transport are associated with substantial relative risk reductions (10-55%) across cardio-vascular disease, cancer, and other diseases. Compared to travel by car, active journeys also reduce air pollution and the carbon emissions that are accelerating climate change. In New Zealand there has been a decline in these active modes and research indicates that mode shift from passive to active travel is difficult to achieve. This is a critical challenge in the face of growing evidence that we need to reduce carbon emissions by around 90% by 2050.

Event Dates: 
Thu, 10/02/2011 - 09:00 - 17:00
Town/City: 
Wellington
Venue: 
Otago University, 23a Mein Street
Contact person: 
Kerry Hurley
Contact details: 
Kerry.Hurley[at]otago.ac.nz

Walk2Work 2011

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Walk2Work Day is part of a Living Streets campaign that aims to encourage people to walk more in their daily lives.  Walking events are held before work in locations close to main walking routes, targeting people who have walked all or part of the way to work.

Event Dates: 
Wed, 16/03/2011 - 07:00 - 11:00

Nominations close for Golden Foot Awards 2010

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Event Dates: 
Wed, 30/06/2010 (All day)
Contact person: 
Jenny-Kaye Potaka
Contact details: 
awards@livingstreets.org.nz

Summer Steps Challenge

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      Summer Steps Challenge


Welcome to our new fun team challenge, encouraging people to get out and about and try walking as a way of getting around.

 

You are challenged to organise a team from your workplace and compete against other teams, to see who can spend the most time walking. 

10000 Steps to an award

August 4, 2009 by administrator
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The 10,000 Steps Northland win of a Golden Foot Award got a good story in the Northland Advocate

A Northland fitness programme not only stepped up to the mark, it set the pace at the inaugural national Golden Foot New Zealand National Walking Awards.

The 10,000 Steps Northland programme has won the Living Streets Aotearoa award for the country's best recreational walking programme.

Supporting cycling and walking in your city - a toolkit

July 22, 2009 by administrator
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A toolkit for submissions to Local Government Annual Plans

(NB this document is also available as a PDF - see attachment at bottom of this page)

This toolkit aims to encourage individuals and agencies from the health sector to support cycling and walking in their city via submissions to Local Government.

Brooklyn Community Street Audit

July 22, 2009 by administrator
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A community street audit involves a group of people walking a route and uses a simple rating technique to identify problem areas and potential improvements. Living Streets used this tool, in part, to carry out a Community Street review in Brooklyn for the Wellington City Council in November 2007.

Four legs are better than two

July 21, 2009 by kelvin aris
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Give 200 pre-teens in London pedometers to count how many steps they walked - and guess what happens. As part of a study into obesity, 11- and 12-year-olds were required to clip a pedometer to their waists. Researchers were surprised by the activity levels recorded in some obese children. Further investigation revealed some had attached their pedometer to their family pets. Guess you have to credit their ingenuity.

School finds fun way to encourage safer and fitter students

July 21, 2009 by celia
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A school in New Plymouth has found a fun, positive way to make its Davies Lane entrance safer, and its students fitter.

Both the school and New Plymouth District Council are encouraging parents not to use Davies Lane for picking up and dropping off their children, but to instead walk them to school from home or from their cars parked elsewhere.

Wellington healthy workers have less strokes and walk more

July 21, 2009 by administrator
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One in four blue collar workers are at high risk of experiencing a heart attack, stroke or other cardiac problem in the next five years according to research carried out by workplace wellness provider, Vitality Works, a Scoop item reports.

The article goes on to note:

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