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7 Ways to Make your Neighborhood a Better Place

Kevin Harris offers this U.K. gem on building community within a neighborhood.  Same goes most places…

Here’s a tidy post from my friend Liz Ixer over on Harringay Online, rehashing this o.p. and suggesting seven ways to make your neighbourhood a better place. Liz makes the principles locally pertinent and weaves-in the role of the neighbourhood online network.

I see lists like this quite often, this one has the virtue of simple practicality and relative brevity. The headings are:

1. Plant something
2. Pick up litter
3. Get to know your neighbours
4. Find out who your government/local representatives are
5. If you see something, say something
6. Shop locally
7. Go for a walk.

And credit to the original poster, Sarah Goodyear, who makes this point under the heading ‘Get to know your neighbours’:

‘If anything bad happens – a blackout, a flood, or worse – these are the people you need to know. It starts with hello.’