The Built Environment & Outdoor Summit is a 2½-day conference that focuses on creative ways in which the design of a community can enhance healthy life.
Now in its eighth year, the Kansas Built Environment and Outdoor Summit continues its tradition of excellence by providing attendees resources to enhance their efforts to promote health as it relates to the built environment and the outdoors. The summit highlights the ways in which the design of a community — where people live, work, learn and play — and the built environment — a community’s bikea
05/04/2016
Technology has improved our lives, but it has also enabled a sedentary society. If we’re not careful, we can end up spending most of our lives indoors and sitting down ... Get Outdoors Kansas aims to make it easier for us to get outside and get active — check it out! SunflowerFoundation.org/GOKS
01/31/2016
The 2016 Sunflower Trails Request for Proposals has been issued! Learn about the variety of funding options for potential trail projects at: SunflowerFoundation.org/RFPs
10/23/2015
Pediatricians Are Asked to Join Fight Against Childhood Hunger The American Academy of Pediatrics wants pediatricians to question parents and refer those lacking food to various resources for assistance.
10/19/2015
We're so sorry to see him go....
Skip Yowell, JanSport Co-Founder Who Blazed Trail for Backpacks, Dies at 69 Mr. Yowell’s passion for the outdoors inspired a multimillion-dollar business that catered originally to campers and hikers, and eventually to students.
10/16/2015
Congratulations, Springfield, Mo.!
Springfield Earns Walk-Friendly Award SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The city has a new title to add to its resume: a walk-friendly designation. The bronze-level award comes from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center.
10/16/2015
From KCUR in Kansas City.
'Blue Zones' Speaker To Share Blueprint For Longevity, Happiness Some of the healthiest and happiest people in the world live in "Blue Zones," according to researcher and best-selling author Dan Buettner. In Greece,
Great 2015 ! See you again next year!
10/15/2015
And the recipient of the 2015 Healthy Design Award is....Clifford Middleton, landscape architect at Johnson County Park and Recreation District - JCPRD! Congratulations!!
10/15/2015
Riding bikes indoors and nobody thinks anything of it—this is our kinda conference! These sweet rides are from Topeka Metro Bikes and BikeWalkKC, featured this morning at a BEOS breakout session~
10/15/2015
BEOS breakout session gives an exciting preview of plans for the Flint Hills Nature Trail, including these signature bridge designs. Check out the full presentation here: http://goo.gl/djjkbU (18MB PDF)
10/15/2015
Mayor Mark Holland tells how the health and morale of and is being transformed with the built environment.
10/15/2015
Great talk tonight by Tony Buettner on Blue Zones (places where people live longer) and their connections to being more focused on families, more physically, socially and spiritually active, consuming both food and alcohol in moderation, and knowing how to decompress and relax. Read more about Blue Zones in this coverage by the Kansas Health Institute: http://www.khi.org/news/article/blue-zones-speaker-shares-blueprint-for-longevity