High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In January 2009, the City of Albert Lea, Minnesota began the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project. Sponsored by United Health Foundation and led by Dan Buettner, the author of The Blue Zone: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who`ve Lived the Longest, the Vitality Project`s goal was to add 10,000 years to the lives of Albert Leans by encouraging them to make small changes in their daily lives.