Community Environment Resources

Active Living Leadership - Basic facts on creating environments that encourage physical activity, including policy development resources. Also includes a calculator for communities and businesses to calculate what costs are associated with physical inactivity in their community or business.
http://www.activelivingbydesign.org/

Blueprint for Nutrition and Physical Activity: Cornerstones of a Healthy Lifestyle - practical, consumer-focused, state and local strategies for improving eating and physical activity from the Association of State & Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors. http://movingtothefuture.org/frontpage_files/55/55_frontpage_file1.pdf (use ADOBE)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Active Community Environments - Active Community Environments (ACEs) is a CDC-sponsored initiative to promote walking, bicycling, and the development of accessible recreation facilities.
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/health_professionals/active_environments/aces.htm

Pedestrian and Bicycling Information Center - Provides information on community problems and solutions, community design, and bike-ability and walk-ability checklists.
http://www.bicyclinginfo.org/

Walkable Communities - Provides information to help communities of all sizes become more walkable and pedestrian friendly. Provides information on workshops, training, and presentations.
http://www.walkable.org/

Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5807a1.htm

Minnesota Complete Streets Coalition Toolkits to Support Local Complete Streets Work

http://www.mncompletestreets.org/gfx/MnCSLocalGovtToolkit.pdf (local government)

http://www.mncompletestreets.org/gfx/MnCSLocalAdvocatesToolkit.pdf (local community groups)

South Dakota Local Foods Co-op

http://www.sdlocalfood.org

CDC's Guide to Community Preventive Services: what works to promote health 

http://www.thecommunityguide.org/pa/index.html