“If in Ottawa, half of the trips people take were done using active transportation, we would reduce the number of cases of diabetes in the city by over 1600 in the next 10 years.” This week’s Green Room guest goes on to ask why elected official are not making the connection between public health and a good economy. Brigitte Pellerin, author and Ottawa Citizen columnist is advocating for us all to make changes in our own lives to reduce our emissions. Her fear is leaving behind a world that is uninhabitable for her children.
“If in Ottawa, half of the trips people take were done using active transportation, we would reduce the number of cases of diabetes in the city by over 1600 in the next 10 years.”
This week’s Green Room guest goes on to ask why elected official are not making the connection between public health and a good economy. Brigitte Pellerin, author and Ottawa Citizen columnist is advocating for us all to make changes in our own lives to reduce our emissions. Her fear is leaving behind a world that is uninhabitable for her children.
You can find Brigitte here:
Twitter: @bpellerin
You can find the study that Brigitte references here and she writes about it in this article, you can find her book here, and the play “12” that she mentions here.
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