Originally Posted by charbucks

I've been hearing a lot about Safe Routes to School programs, an organization that funds and helps communities to develop various initiatives to encourage walking and biking to school. It looks like you've got a Michigan chapter (http://saferoutesmichigan.org) - maybe you could get involved with them to help with events and awareness campaigns.

Some of the initiatives I've heard of are competitions between students (how many days in a row did you walk), "drop zones" located a certain distance from the school, walk to school days/month, getting extra credit in PE by taking active routes to school, etc.