Members of the public health community and those from the world of urban planning have teamed up to create the Active Living By Design program, and by extension, this fine website. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and an academic home at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, the program was created “to increase physical activity through...

The Active Transportation Alliance is based in Chicago, Illinois, and the Alliance has done the majority of its work in the Windy City. However, it also has a global reach, which focuses on making biking, walking, and public transportation, safe, fun, and convenient. Visitors will find the "Our Work" tab near the top of the page helps explain all the different types of work they do to encourage...

With the assistance of Active Web Reader v2.42, one can more effectively keep track of new RSS feeds as they are made available, and also keep track of old favorites. The program’s interface makes it quite easy to read the feeds, and it can also monitor web site changes. With the program’s auto discovery feature, users can also browse websites as they add feeds to their “favorites” list. This...

Getting together with old friends and new online is relatively easy these days, what with all the various social networking sites out there. Not many of the sites give users the leeway to create their own activist networks, but this application does just that. With this application, visitors can create different online event resources, email updates, and profiles, all of which can be used for a...

Cities around the world have been adopting various environmentally friendly policies during the past few years. Some cities have moved to make construction sites recycle materials, and still others, such as Chicago, have made a concerted effort to incorporate “green” building principles into their municipally financed structures. This past week, the city of San Francisco continued to consider...

Sometimes it may be difficult to get current information about the traffic on a website, and checking all of the major search engines may be time-consuming at times. This application can assist in that process as it checks website positions on all major search engines and also generates customizable tabular, graphical and printable reports. While this version contains all of the features of the...

More and more women are now located amongst the upper echelons of leadership in a number of professions, including higher education, business, and the entertainment business. As a result, there has been an increased interest in scholarly publications and journals on the subject of women in leadership. In 1997, a group of scholars convened to electronically publish the first issue of the Advancing...

Advertising Age is one of the most well-known advertising industry publications, and their website is an important place for those interested in the industry, whether they be new to the field or whether they have decades of experience. Along the top of the homepage, visitors will find nine different sections, including Global News, Hispanic Marketing, and Digital. Each of these sections features...

While watching television commercials might seem like a form of torture to some, this amazing archive is a treasure trove for those with an interest in media studies and popular culture. The AdViews digital archive consists of several thousand vintage television commercials from the 1950s through 1980s, and it is part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke...

From 1938 to 1947, the United States Forest Service took thousands of aerial photographs of the state of Colorado. The hope was that these images would be used by agronomists, land use planners, farmers, and other groups with a vested interest in these lands. Today, 1,700 of these images are part of the University of Colorado's Digital Collections. Visitors can search for available images by using...