Drew Hanson

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New Ice Age Trail segment coming to Waukesha County after DNR land purchase

A nearly mile-long stretch of trail will be built along Waterville Road, eliminating a dangerous road walk for hikers.

Journal Sentinel

An 11-minute brisk walk every day could prevent one in 10 premature deaths worldwide, according to the largest ever study of its kind.

Now just imagine if we designed cities and neighbourhoods to make that walk a completely normal part of every day life.

#cities #walking #WalkableCities #health #cars
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/28/walking-11-minutes-a-day-could-stop-early-deaths

Walking just 11 minutes a day could stop 10% of early deaths, researchers find

Weekly 75 minutes of moderate-intensity activity is half the amount recommended by the NHS

The Guardian

Today is the 204 year anniversary of the "Civilization Fund Act," which paid white missionaries to partner with the federal govt to force Native Americans to convert to Christianity or die.

At its peak 357 such schools kidnapped Indigenous kids & abused & tortured them to death.

The right wing extremist push to break down church state separation is not new, it's a revival of the atrocities of yesteryear.

After 20 years of effort, WiDNR completed acquisition of a 38-acre property along the #IceAgeTrail this week. It includes a glacial #drumlin albeit a very small one. WI has vast swarms of drumlins but they are rare along the Ice Age Trail because the trail tends to be near the terminal moraine while drumlins form farther up ice. #CloseTheGaps #publicland #hiking
Have you seen this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — illustrates why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, has been strongly linked to better creative & intellectual performance.
Just one of MANY benefits of choosing to walk, for you and for society.
Design and build walkable cities.
#walking #cities #urbanism #WalkableCities #WalkToSchool #WalkToWork #city #cars
Yesterday’s open house at my neighborhood #NationalPark has me reflecting on the progress we’ve made. It takes all of us. #gratitude #iceagetrail #OutWiGo