Healthy Corners vs NLR OpenPATH

Healthy Corners is a pioneering venture by DC Central Kitchen that is sustainably expanding healthy food access in DC’s food apartheid communities. Healthy Corners delivers fresh and frozen produce and healthy snacks to partnering corner stores across Washington, D.C., making it easier for residents to access the produce they want and need at affordable prices. The Healthy Corners app makes finding fresh and healthy food at discount prices in your neighborhood easy! Connect with participating corner stores nearby through a user-friendly map, discover which locations offer the SNAP Match program and accept WIC, or explore new recipes using Healthy Corners products. On the Healthy Corners app, you can: - Locate Healthy Corners stores in your community - See updated product offerings to plan your next grocery or snack run - Identify your local SNAP Match and/or WIC-authorized Healthy Corners store - Save your 'favorite' stores and opt in to receive text message alerts whenever a store gets new product deliveries - Search the “Recipes” section for delicious recipes that use Healthy Corners products - Review community resources across Washington, D.C. - Stay in the loop on the latest updates from Healthy Corners

The National Laboratory of the Rockies' Open Platform for Agile Trip Heuristics (NLR OpenPATH) enables people to track their travel modes—car, bus, bike, walking, etc.—and measure their associated energy use and carbon footprint. The app empowers communities to understand their travel mode choices and patterns, experiment with options to make them more sustainable, and evaluate the results. Such results can inform effective transportation policy and planning and be used to build more sustainable and accessible cities. NLR OpenPATH informs individual users about the impact of their choices, and also makes aggregated, community-level data on mode shares, trip frequencies, and carbon footprints available via a public dashboard. NLR OpenPATH incorporates continuous data collection and analysis via a smart phone app backed by a server and automated data processing. Its open nature enables transparent data collection and analysis, while allowing it to be configured for individual programs or studies. On first install, the app does not collect or transmit data. Once you click the link or scan the QR code to join a given study or program, you will be asked to consent to data collection and storage before the app begins functioning. If you are not part of a partner community or program but are simply interested in quantifying your individual carbon footprint, you can join the NLR-run open-access study. In the aggregate, your data might be used as the control for experiments run by our partners. At its core, the app represents an automatically sensed travel diary, constructed from background sensed location and accelerometer data. You can annotate the diary with semantic labels as requested by a given program administrator or researcher. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Therefore, the app automatically turns off the GPS if you are not moving. This significantly reduces the battery drain caused by location tracking. The app results in ~ 5% battery drain for up to 3 hours of travel per day.