RESOURCES

Below are some resources to help you shake it up and take action to create more walkable communities that are purposefully designed for walking and active transportation. Check them out to see how you can help create change in our province. 

Shaping healthy active communities toolkit

The Heart and Stroke Foundation has developed a toolkit to help individuals and organizations who are interested in making their communities more supportive of physical activity through active, healthy community design.

Green Mobility Strategy

• Outlines a series of action steps needed to improve sustainable passenger transportation in Nova Scotia;
• Helps decision-makers reach the province's goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as set out in the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act;
• Directs decision-makers to funding more sustainable means of moving people from place to place.

Walk 21 International Charter for Walking

Walk 21 aims to respond to the growing demand for a partnership of the world's policy makers, researchers and practitioners to:

• Confirm the importance of walking issues at political and policy levels;
• Provide an international platform for an inclusive discussion;
• Acknowledge the research, practice and promotion undertaken so far and to highlight best practice; and
• Identify the need for future research and opportunities for funding future networking.

The vision of the charter is to create a world where people choose and are able to walk as a way to travel, to be healthy and to relax, a world where authorities, organizations and individuals have:

• Recognized the value of walking;
• Made a commitment to healthy, efficient and sustainable communities;
• Worked together to overcome physical and social and institutional barriers which often limit people choice to walk.

Nova Scotia Pathways for People Framework for Action

This document was created to showcase Nova Scotia's success stories in the arena of active transportation and provide a context for future initiatives. Here you will find ways we can join together to meet the growing active transportation needs of our communities. This is fundamental to the growth of active transportation: the development and maintenance of partners at the government, agency and individual levels. These partnerships need to be diverse, strong, creative, sustainable and supportive of one another.

Active Living By Design

Active Living By Design increases physical activity through community design. It is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and was established to create and promote environments that make it safe and convenient for people to be more physically active. Active Living By Design offers a collection of downloadable tools, guides and how-to-manuals that provide assistance to help create and support an active living environment.