Kaneohe Healthy Built Environment Workshop

You are invited to a Kaneohe Healthy Built Environment Workshop.  

Look at Kaneohe with a new vision.  What can we do to make Kaneohe a more hospitable place for residents to work, shop and play.

The workshop will be led by Dan Burden, an internationally recognized authority on livable and sustainable communities, healthy streets, traffic calming, and bicycle and pedestrian programs. Over the past 35 years, he’s helped more than 3,000 communities become more livable, walkable, and sustainable.

The objectives for this workshop will be:

·         Education on Complete Streets. What are they? What are the benefits (health, safety, economic, environment)? How to achieve Complete Streets (i.e. street and land use tools in the community toolbox)? How are these tools achieving the benefits (i.e. additional data, evidence based research)?

·         Protected Paths – both on-street and off-street. Share benefits to business, landowners and community at large for supporting active transportation networks/ infrastructure, and increasing foot and bicycle traffic.

·         Kamehameha Highway Re-pavement Project

Dan Burden will present best practices and inspiration for creating healthy built environments.

Thursday, May 26, 2016

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Good Samaritan Pohai Nani – Auditorium

45-090 Namoku St, Kaneohe, HI 96744

Agenda breakdown:

6:30 PM       Welcome & Introductions
6:45 PM       Healthy Built Environments

Dan Burden will present best practices and inspiration for creating healthy built environments.
7:15 PM      Table-mapping session (6-8 people per table)
Tables identify barriers, assets, opportunities, & destinations
8:00 PM      Report Out
8:30 PM      Wrap-up

Want to learn more about Blue Zones Project? Check out this video for an overview

A New Tool For Healthier Windward Living

How are your habits increasing your life expectancy -- or cutting into it? The Blue Zones Project has a new Vitality Compass that you can use to answer the question.

What's In It For You

The Compass helps you calculate your overall life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.


More importantly, it shows the years you're gaining/losing because of your habits AND up to 12 recommendations for longer living.

Better Health, The Ko'olaupoko Way

Kaneohe and Windward Oahu (Ko'olaupoko) were selected earlier this year as the first Blue Zones Demonstration Community on our island. This neighbor-to-neighbor project will work to improve the living environment so that residents can live longer, happier, more productive lives.

Try out the Vitality Compass and share it with your friends!