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What to do during TV Turnoff Week?

Posted in Civic participation, Health, Neighborhoods, Social opportunities on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As you may have learned from the News-Miner or elsewhere, it is currently TV Turnoff Week (April 21-27) — a chance for us to power down the tube and do something a little healthier or more creative. But what to do?
Based on the readers of this blog whom I know, turning off the television [...]

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No substitute for face-to-face

Posted in Civic participation, Health on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I just read in today’s Judith Kleinfeld column:
In “The Healing Power of Doing Good,” Alan Luks investigated the emotional and health benefits of acts of kindness.
Luks sent a confidential questionnaire to 3,300 volunteers at more than 20 organizations throughout the United States. Just writing a check to a charitable organization, he found, didn’t do anything [...]

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The dread “exercise”: or, Living with integration

Posted in Health on March 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

My fellow Fairbanks blogger Discontinuous Permafrost recently reported that he was ordered by his doctor to “[incorporate] a ‘healthy diet and exercise’ or suffer the consequences down the road.” I felt so sorry for him. Little repulses me more than the prospect of having to “exercise”.
I don’t mean to say that I prefer sloth [...]

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Alaska’s most walkable city?

Posted in Car-free living, Health on March 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »

As readers of Dermot Cole’s column may have heard, Prevention Magazine, in association with the American Podiatric Medical Association, named Fairbanks the best city in Alaska for walkers. The APMA developed the Best Walking Cities Competition in part “to educate the public on the health benefits of walking.” However, as an educational [...]

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“Help, I’ve been disenfranchized by city planning!”

Posted in Automobiles, City planning, Civic participation, Health on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The cold snap is behind us for now, thank heavens, though surely we’ll get more in winters to come. Now seems like a fair time to look at the relationship between people’s civil right of peaceable assembly (yes, the one guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution) and Interior Alaska’s weather — [...]

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No breathing easy downtown

Posted in Automobiles, Downtowns, Health on January 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »

An acquaintance of mine works in an office building downtown. She tells me that she’s thinking of quitting her job because:

She lives on the west side of Fairbanks, and driving to and from downtown is an unpleasant commute; and
The air around her building stinks. She described it as smoky and diesel-ish, and that [...]

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