EverWalk Blog Archives

The Climate Science of Urban Cooling Corridors

by EverWalk | Aug 9, 2021 | EverWalk Blog

The news this week about global climate change is NOT good. . .Anyone who is interested in environmental science knows that the clock has been ticking for quite a while on how long humans can go on destroying the planet before it becomes unlivable. . .Well, we are now...

Walking Through History

by EverWalk | Aug 2, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog

Are you curious about the things, the buildings, the nature, the history of the area through which you walk, yet you find yourself continuing to ask: I wonder when that house that looks different than the others on the street was built—without ever finding out the...

Plastic-Free July: What’s Shoes Got To Do With It?

by EverWalk | Jul 20, 2021 | EverWalk Blog

What do shoes have to do with Plastic-Free July? Well, did you know that most shoes are terrible for our environment? The majority use unsustainable materials — and shoe production accounts for a fifth of the fashion industry’s environmental impact, generating 1.4...

Is Farther Better?

by EverWalk | Jul 13, 2021 | EverWalk Blog

At EverWalk, we love our epic walkers — those folks who head out for fifteen, twenty, fifty miles a day — and seem none the worse for the wear, but rather invigorated by long distances they cover. They certainly embody the epic in walking. But for many people, a long...

Walk the Big Idea: How Walking Has Changed Our World

by EverWalk | Jul 6, 2021 | EverWalk Blog

As EverWalk co-founder Diana Nyad writes, “ There are stories throughout history of artists and writers and thinkers who walked daily, who walked long distances, not really for health or for athletic purposes, but to let their creative minds brew and bubble. Virginia...

Singing and Counting Cadence

by Diana Nyad | Jun 29, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog

I was often asked by interviewers whether the long torturous hours swimming in the ocean were tougher on the body or the mind. My answer was: It starts with the body. If those shoulders are not trained, if the whole body (swimming, along with cross country skiing,...