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Pin it for the Planet

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Contest, Cycling, Environment, Healthy Living, Leadership

Thomas Fuller said, “All things are difficult before they are easy.”

If what our buddie Thomas said is true, it stands to reason that people need a good cause to choose to act.

I found a good one; maybe you’ll think so too. Here’s the scoop.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada has launched Pin it for the Planet. It’s simple and broken down into 3 simple steps.

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The Top 8 Reasons I Bike to Work

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Cycling, Empowerment, Environment, Healthy Living

The top 8 reason I bike to work:

I hope they encourage you to try it for yourself or motivate you to continue. After all it is National Bike Month, and May 10-15 is the 2nd annual Bike 2 Work Week Regina.

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Earth Day and In Motion Action

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Education, Empowerment, Environment

It’s Earth Day today, which is awesome. Any opportunity to turn the world’s attention to the intensifying situation on our planet is good. I personally see being an “environmentalist” and physically active as two intertwined things. So on Earth Day when the focus is so vast and overwhelming, and you’re just looking for some way to participate on a smaller scale here is an idea for you.

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Road Warrior-Ditching Fuel for Physical

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Empowerment, Environment

Today is a huge day for me. Recently I made a decision that will massively affect my whole life. It’s scary and intimidating for sure. At the same time it’s exciting, bold and in great ways life altering.

Here’s the deal; I decided to buy a bike and adopt it as my main means of transportation. If you’re thinking whoa that’s a pretty big thing to take on.. you’re right!

Today was day 1, and the benefits of choosing active transportation are clear…

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Environmentalist Severn Cullis-Suzuki Teams Up With Physical Activity

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Empowerment, Engagment, Environment, Leadership

An Environmentalist at A Physical Activity Gathering?

Severn Cullis-Suzuki is known throughout the world for her work in the environmental movement. Why then would Saskatchewan in motion invite her to be the guest speaker at out provincial gathering?

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White Out @ the Winter Olympics

posted by: Kenji category: Active in Nature, Sport

I am an extreme sports kinda girl. I’m working on building some skills of my own in a few of them. Until then I love, love, love to watch, so the men’s half pipe at the Olympics was a treat.
Don’t ask me to explain the names of the tricks or the scoring system. All I [...]

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Scoop by Scoop Snow Shoveling

posted by: Kenji category: Active in Nature, Family, Healthy Living

In honor of the blizzard Saskatchewan just had, I thought I’d whip up a little something about the shoveling we’re all going to have to do. I had just finished my workout for the day when I decided to tackle the snow pile. By the time I was done clearing a path out to the world, the shoveling had been a more intense work out than the weights I had done. Every year shoveling always used to sneak up and wreck my back for a couple weeks when we’d get a good snow. After a few years in a row of that I learned my lesson. So here are my Snow Relocation Tips!

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Boxing Day=Snow Day!

posted by: Kenji category: Active in Nature, Family, Healthy Living, Sport

So typically when one hears tobogganing they think kids, and that’s partly true but with my family the adults go wild with it. The brother slide, the sister slide, how many can squash on the sled, how many people high can we go, oh ya, it gets crazy! Once we get our competitive juices going we take it up a notch from sledding to mostly.. touch snow football! All in all the day is about all of us being together! Running around and being active just enhances the fun we have together.

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Give the Gift of Physical Activity

posted by: Kenji category: Accountability, Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Empowerment, Healthy Living

With Christmas just around the corner and last minute gifts on the brain, have you considered physical activity?
During the holiday season no matter how old you are we tend to give and receive gifts. This holiday season it’s a good idea to ask yourself, what am I saying with this present?
Gift giving is actually a [...]

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Does COP 15 affect physical activity?

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Environment, Sport

Physical Activity has basic requirements. Ultimately you need a reason to do it, a nourished and hydrated body, and finally a space to get er’ done. We need our environment so we can be active in nature. At the same time, there are a lot of things we can do to be active that are not only good for our bodies, they’re good for the environment too.

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