Health and Wellbeing : Features

To truly know the city is to travel it in its entirely, perhaps even block by block. While this list is by no means exhaustive (and is certainly subjective), we think you can hardly go wrong with a fall stroll down any one of these attractive blocks.

Visitors to Washington, DC often describe the city as very walkable, and are delighted to find they can do most of their sightseeing on foot. But residents often have an entirely different idea of what makes each neighborhood more or less friendly to pedestrians. As advocates prepare to visit the city at the end of October for the National Walking Summit, we hit the sidewalks alongside of a few locals who use foot travel as a way to explore and transform their own neighborhoods -- and lives -- for the better. 

Everywhere you look in D.C., there are #foodheroes. People helping D.C. residents grow more food, eat healthier, and care for the environment with their eating choices.

Last Tuesday some of the city’s green building experts met to discuss how new building codes are changing the way the city lives and works.  The event was produced by ElevationDC and sponsored by the law firm of Nixon Peabody. 

Kofi Asante moved in when the largest club for African and Caribbean music sat directly across from his shop; now it's a gym. But business is booming at Eddie's Hair Creations, now in its 24th year.

The two yoga studios serving Petworth and neighboring Park View aren't just for "young hipsters," says one studio owner.

An innovative program--in D.C. and just five other cities nationwide--aims to supplement high-school health class so kids can learn how to make good decisions. For Delaney Balderas, it's also a chance to put her studies into real-world work.

What does the future hold for the District? Elevation D.C. looks forward for our last issue of the year.

D.C. wouldn't be where it is without its passionate, engaged citizens. Get to know four of them.

Not many people know the Anacostia the way that Jorge Bogantes Montero does. As a natural resources specialist with the Anacostia Watershed Society, Montero is aware of the places where legacy pollutants form a troubled mix of dirty water.  But he has also found places along the shores where wild persimmon and pawpaw fruits can still be found dangling from the limbs of native trees each fall. 

This isn't your mom's school nurse; it's a full medical center—in a high school. These school-based health centers are taking off in D.C. Here's why that's a good thing.

Take a whirlwind, three-hundred-year tour through the Anacostia's history, from natural treasure to garbage dump and back again.

The nationwide competiton to design an elevated park over the Anacostia has reached its home stretch, with four finalists unveiling their designs Thursday. Any would be a welcome addition to D.C.

As change comes to the NW neighborhood of Pleasant Plains, the Emergence Community Arts Collective knits neighbors together.