Welcome to Walking Out of Poverty

Workshop Session D Thursday, November 19, 2015

9:15 – 10:30

Presenter: Ashley Nedeau-Owen

Gary Snyder

Your Name Here

Ashley Nedeau-Owen

Walking Out of Poverty

A Pecha Kucha: 20 x 20

Twenty slides, each shown for twenty seconds

Sharka Dolak

Walk the Walk.

Walk free. Or simply, Walk.

Walking out. Pedestrian

Take a hike.

You’re gonna have to walk.

Walk the plank.

Mo Costandi, Bipedalism, Birth and Brain Development The Guardian, May 7, 2012

Evolution is an opportunistic process … (B)ipedalism could have led to increased brain size. It would … have freed up the forelimbs, and this … to the expansion and reorganization of the sensory and motor brain areas that process sensation and control movement. Standing upright would have led to big changes in what our ancestors saw, which may have led to an expansion of the visual areas at the back of the brain. New findings suggest that further brain expansion … could have occurred as an indirect result of … modifications that followed the transition to bipedalism.

Antonia Malchik, “The End of Walking,” Aeon Magazine, Aug. 20, 2015

Crosswalk is over there, way over there

A person is at greater risk of head injury in an automobile

than on a bicycle

$18,518,500,000 (Best estimate of Wisconsin’s 2014 surface transportation cost)

Tables show vehicle fatalities by year

$18,518,500,000 (Best estimate of Wisconsin’s 2014 surface transportation cost)

Tables show vehicle fatalities by year

If you know someone who was

killed in a vehicle crash,

raise your hand

they

In Southwestern Wisconsin, a family at the federal poverty level spends between 27% and

31% of total household income on transportation

Find the H+T Index at www.cnt.org

Rebecca Solnit, from Wanderlust: A History of Walking Penguin Books, NY, 2000

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of

engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing

the world through the body and the body through the world.

Thinking skills like memory, planning activities or processing

information decline almost in parallel with the ability to walk

fluidly, these studies show.

In other words, the more trouble people have walking, the more

trouble they have thinking. Pam Belluck, NY Times, July 16, 2012

Yes

No

Of 15,750 peer-reviewed papers on climate change, 17 challenge the science.

The Roll Call of Famous Walkers Put your name on this list