Dan Buettner has established the Blue Zones Project in more than two dozen cities throughout the US. While I was surgeon general, my team reached out to him, and he was gracious enough to walk me through the work they were doing. His idea for American moais was to bring people together around a common interest or activity, like cooking, or walking, or gardening. Then, Dan explained, “We nudge them into hanging out together for ten weeks. We have created moais that are now several years old, and they are still exerting a healthy influence on members’ lives.”
