Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The Island Where People Forget to Die

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

TOM LOFFT Liberty Village, MD wrote:

>What is the Secret to longevity?  Or is lifestyle more important?  Is
>it community, culture, diet, climate, or lifestyle? If you can break
>away from the frantic pace of keeping up with the internet and
>Facebook demands of knowing everything about everyone, you might enjoy
>this article.
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/
the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?
WT.mc_id=NYT-I-P-BODY-MAG-102512-L4
>

Thanks for posting this Tom.

Here is a short URL to the article in case that one is problematic:
http://s.coop/livelong

I read the first 2 (of 7) pages aloud to my family doctor wife.
We were impressed. Then I got side tracked on refreshing my memory
about the author - Dan Buettner (who I sort of remembered - he lives
here in MN and has spoken on MN Public Radio )  :

 Dan Buettner (born 1960 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American
 explorer, educator, author, public speaker and co-producer of an Emmy
 Award-winning documentary who also holds three world records for
 endurance bicycling

from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Buettner

>From there I followed some links to
http://www.bluezones.com/  (about places where people live longer)
http://www.bluezones.com/about/dan-buettner/ (16 minute video that
 includes some conclusions about factors that lead to communities
 of long living people (no silver bullet - silver buckshot)

http://www.tedmed.com  Tedmed holds an annual confernce
about the ideas that came out of the bluezones studies.
It costs $5000 to attend but there are live video streams to
auditoriums around the country.  Map of 2012 sites:
http://www.tedmed.com/conference/live#tedmedlivepi

Another of Dan's TED talk that has had over a million views:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out
(in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds:
Technology, Entertainment, Design.

Note I searched for "cohousing" at TED and found no videos / talks.
However there were 18 hits at "community profiles" about people
registered at Ted who mention cohousing including our Raines Cohen.

Who is going to make a TED talk on cohousing - it is certainly and
Ideas Worth Spreading.  Maybe how a cohousing community could become a
little bluezone?

Fred

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