http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...#articlecontent

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A few times a week, Kirsten Dhanda takes her family and her dog to Grenfell Park, her local green space in the affluent London commuter suburb of Maidenhead, and picks up discarded beer cans. If you ask her, she's just doing what any civilized person would do to keep her neighbourhood tidy for everyone to use. Ms. Dhanda does not think of herself as a tiny cog in the most radical, sweeping experiment that Britain has embarked on in the postwar years, an experiment that – if it works, which is entirely up in the air – will transform every aspect of British life, from schools to hospitals to police forces. And yet that is exactly what she is: one of Prime Minister David Cameron's foot soldiers, marching toward the new Jerusalem that he calls the Big Society.

More on link.

I could really get behind this idea. It's going to take totally changing the mindset and attitude of every citizen, but if we become a bit less selfish, and do a little for our community, wouldn't our society be better? (and helluva less troubles)

Of course it would make it better..

It's getting the populace to take part that's the problem...

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Originally posted by chinamon chinamon is INCH MOAN. LOL so fitting.

Seems like a pretty sound idea. If you help clean you're less likely to dirty it up.

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All the homeless in Toronto also keep our parks free of beer cans and liquor bottles. Had Britain put a deposit on their alcoholic waste their itinerants would have solved that problem years ago.

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