Walking Moai events begin for beach cities residents at all 13 elementary schools Monday, April 25, and Tuesday, April 26! Moai, which means meeting for a common purpose, originated in Okinawa, Japan, as a way for villagers to support each other emotionally in times of need. The Vitality City initiative hopes to expand the traditional definition of Moai to walking, volunteering or simply being active while making new friends, and is one of the cornerstone programs that will help to transform the Beach Cities into a Vitality City.
We need your help organizing and leading those teams. If you volunteer, you’ll get a free pedometer and a snazzy new Vitality City t-shirt.
Congratulations to the following companies who signed up to be Vitality Employers this week! We applaud all of you for taking advantage of the free tools and resources that are available free of charge as part of the Healthways |Blue Zones Vitality City™ initiative presented by the Beach Cities Health District.
The Beach Cities Vitality City project officially kicks off with a walk next week. But the talk among walkers is what organizers hope will help achieve significant improvements in health and well-being throughout the beach cities. The “Walking Moai ” [...]
Dan Buettner was only a few years out of college when, in 1987, he launched what would be the first of many quests. Originally, he intended to bicycle from his native Minnesota to the southern tip of South America. But [...]
Vitality City Blueprint After 19 focus groups and many meetings listening to over 500 beach cities residents, we are busy writing the Vitality City Blueprint for 2011. This document translates the information learned in the focus groups into a plan [...]
It’s a crazy, connected world. Vitality City announced its t-shirt design contest to 80,000 graphic designers from around the world. More than 130 of them submitted designs. 288 beach cities residents voted online for their favorites and chose the design [...]
From over 130 designs submitted from around the world, we selected five finalists in the Vitality City t-shirt design contest. Now we need your help to choose the winning shirt, but you need to act fast. We have just four [...]
