The Orlando Economic Partnership’s Foundation for Orlando’s Future, along with local business leaders, is working with Blue Zones to begin a community assessment in Orange County that would determine how to make it a healthier place to live, work, grow up and grow old.
What We Do
ASSESSMENT
Blue Zones experts will collaborate with leaders to assess readiness and build a plan for change. During this period we will: Educate and mobilize local leaders and residents, evaluate the community’s current state of well-being, identify the highest priority strengths, challenges and opportunities, and produce and present a plan for community transformation. The next step is Phase II Activate, which is putting the plan into action.
FREE TOOLS
Blue Zones engages individual community members through online health and well-being assessments, the True Vitality® Test and True Happiness® Test, and an interactive Blue Zones® Life Challenge. All are available for free to all community members as part of the program. These customized online tools are designed to help raise individual awareness surrounding personal health and well-being, with the goal of increasing overall life expectancy.
MEET THE EXPERTS
The Blue Zones Activate team is comprised of a range of inspirational, innovative community transformation and well-being experts.
“In an age when poor health seems so intractable, you’ve taken this community from a place of resignation to a place of hope.”
Dr. Vivek Murthy
Former U.S. Surgeon General after his orientation to the Blue Zones work in the Beach Cities, California
Happenings
National Healthy Policymaking Experts Visit Orange County
The nation’s top bikeability, walkability, liveability experts are assessing streets and city planning in the Orange County region to create the framework for a well-being policy bundle that will transform where we live, work, grow up, and grow old.
Activate Orange County in the News
The Orlando Economic Partnership’s Foundation for Orlando’s Future and Blue Zones are beginning the transformative work of making Orange County a healthier, more accessible place to live, work, play, grow up, and grow old.
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Using evidence-based lessons of longevity from the blue zones, we optimize the Life Radius, where we live, work, learn, and play.
Life Radius
Blue Zones Activate focuses on optimizing the Life Radius or the area close to home where we spend 90 percent of our lives.
POWER 9
Residents of the original blue zones regions live in very different parts of the world. Yet they have nine commonalities that lead to longer, healthier lives.
About Blue Zones Project
Walking Moais
Blue Zones Project Southwest Florida
