I read about Jason Roberts earlier this year in Dumbo Feather magazine and was blown away by what he had achieved as an "ordinary person". To cut a long story short, when looking to buy a house with his wife years ago, he realised they could only afford to live in an undesirable part of town. Instead of being put off by that, he made it his mission to make it a better place to live - and he achieved it.
He's a co-founder of Better Block, which is a movement that has spread across the globe that revitalises communities. What they do is pretty cool...look at the Dumbo Feather interview, or the Better Block website, or Jason Roberts's TED talk.
This is a guy whose day job was working in IT, not someone with a degree in town planning. He shows that you don't have to wait to be asked, or for someone else to start...you can do it yourself.
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