Experts Online Archive: What's Health Got to Do With It? How Green Development Builds Healthy, Resilient Communities

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Date Published: 05/04/2011

Archived webcast from 04/06/11

Overview

These days, green development means more than green building and energy efficiency. It means strengthening people and places so that they are healthy, sustainable, and resilient. Public health has also expanded into a broad scope that includes the built environment and its effect on human health. Taken together, green development and public health offer a strong platform to address the fundamental causes of poor health and create communities where fresh food is accessible, housing is healthy, and opportunities for physical activity are inherent to neighborhood design.

Many of us today work in distressed neighborhoods that suffer disproportionately from illness and chronic disease. As we look for opportunities to create more affordable housing, greener schools and workplaces, and safer streets and parks, it is important to consider how we can make the people in our communities as strong and sustainable as their new physical environments.

In this free public webcast, the LISC Green Development Center has convened three expert speakers to explore what happens when we look at green development and public health through one lens. Drawing from their expertise in active living design, food systems, and healthy homes, a panel of experts will address such questions as:

  • What does it take to create neighborhoods where all residents have access to healthy, fresh food?
  • How can we build homes that are affordable, do no harm, and actually improve health?
  • Where have communities successfully connected the dots between built environment and people’s health?

Presenters

  • James F. Sallis, Ph.D, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University and Director of Active Living Research (a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
  • Yael Lehmann, Executive Director of The Food Trust in Pennsylvania
  • David Jacobs, Ph.D, Director of Research at the National Center for Healthy Housing
  • Madeline Fraser-Cook, Director of the Green Development Center, LISC

Archive Recording:

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Topic: --Green Development

Type: Archived Webcast - Experts Online