Are you a community activist? Perhaps you are the one who spearheads the neighborhood newsletter, potlucks, or ball games. If you are, or are heavily involved in your community's activities in some other way, the odds are high that your neighbors listen to and respect what you have to say. It is highly worth considering parleying your influence into powerful community upgrading movements that will benefit your neighborhood for years to come.
From northern the north Atlantic coast to southern California, solar energy installation, bicycle lanes, green spaces, and community gardens are increasingly being introduced to neighborhoods as ways of making them more sustainable, restoring the human scale, making them safer, and more inviting to neighbor interaction. Some areas are doing fund-raisers to install solar panels in green spaces to power lights for neighborhood gatherings and gardens to raise food for their potlucks. Inspire your neighbors to build a stronger, safer, greener community.