ENJOY YOUR FRIENDSHIPS
Our mission is the creation
of genuine friendships!
We encourage your creation
of a deep & natural friendship with yourself,
with other people, and with nature!
© Heroic Living Nonprofit
Rohnert Park:
A city of local face-to-face friendships
with many blue zone-style neighborhoods
Vision: To become a “key” blue zone-friendly city in Sonoma County
To become a “major blue zone travel destination” in US
ROHNERT PARK, CALIFORNIA
“City of Friendships!”
in Sonoma County, California”
with available
fresh local food, local walking trails,
local neighborhood parks, local university,
local friendship groups, local community activities,
local stores and restaurants, near a local Smart Train
Blue Zones
The concept of blue zones grew from the demographic work Gianni Pes and Michel Poulain outlined in the Journal of Experimental Gerontology, identifying Sardinia, Italy as the region with the highest concentration of male centenarians.
Pes and Poulain drew concentric blue circles on the map highlighting these villages of extreme longevity and began to refer to this area inside the circle as the blue zone. Building on that demographic work, Dan and a team of scientists often including Pes and Poulain, pinpointed other longevity hotspots worldwide and dubbed them blue zones.
A blue zone is a region in the world where people are claimed to have exceptionally long lives beyond the age of 80 due to a lifestyle combining physical activity, low stress, rich social interactions, a local whole-foods diet, and low disease incidence.[1] Examples of blue zones include Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy; the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; and Icaria, Greece.[1] The name “blue zones” derived simply during the original survey by scientists, who “used a blue pen on a map to mark the villages with long-lived population.”[2]
National Blue Zone Publicity:
Four Netflix Videos by Dan Buettner
Born June 18, 1960, Dan Buettner is an American author, explorer, storyteller, longevity researcher and public speaker. Buettner graduated with a BA in Spanish and Literature from the University of St. Thomas in 1983.
He co-produced the 3 time Emmy Award winning winning documentary TV mini-series:
To learn more: watch four videos on Netflix:
“Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones (2023)”
The four videos in this series have brought national attention to Blue Zones and highlighted important aspects of healthy communities studied by anthropologists for many years.
These remarkable videos inspire the American public, especially those devoted to the pursuit of health and well-being.
In his recent book, Together, the surgeon general has recently documented that “isolation” is “the major cause” of issues in physical and mental health in the United States.
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World is a work of nonfiction by Vivek H. Murthy, MD, an American physician and public health advocate who served as the 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States.
A New York Times bestseller, the book received positive reviews from The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The Psychiatry Resource.
“The secrets of Natural Living are: (1) YOUR PASSION: — “making a difference” (living your passion/purpose), (2) YOUR EATING: — “good food” (3) YOURE MOVEMENT: — “good movement” and (4) YOUR FRIENDSHIPS: — “smiling faces!” (lasting local face-to-face friendships!)
Natural Living occurs most beautifully as the result of our actual daily routines . . . the things that we do every day of our lives!
Peter Merritt Skaife
Heroic Living Nonprofit