Put a Pandemic on Your Plate
For 15 years, the International Food Information Council’s Food and Health Survey has polled U.S. consumers with the goal of surfacing their perceptions, beliefs, and practices around food and food purchasing decisions. It’s a good read in any year, but this year the survey took place against the backdrop of a global pandemic and included…
Can Cutting Curbs May Make Us Healthier?
No, that’s not a new fad diet. When we talk about “curb cuts,” we’re talking about a concept from the science of community well-being first outlined by Angela Glover Blackwell in her article “The Curb Cut Effect,” published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) in Winter 2017. In the piece, Glover challenges the widely…
Understanding Pandemic Benefits at the Market
A key area of well-being is our physical health and under that falls diet. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables plays a major role in a healthy diet, but access to that fresh produce is just as important, especially for those disproportionately affected in our community by income or transportation barriers. It takes the community coming…
Green Bay Earns Award for Bikeable Community
The City of Green Bay has earned a Bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community designation from the League of American Bicyclists! This was announced on Wednesday, June 10th during a virtual press conference by Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich, Wello Executive Director Natalie Bomstad, and Wisconsin Bike Fed Northeast Director Michelle Bachaus. You can watch the live…