Henry David Thoreau once asked, “What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?” This question always comes to mind every time I drive around our neighborhood, which is lined with houses Thoreau might describe as "fine." These fine houses are as pretty as houses go. However, our neighborhood has one undisguised problem: the surroundings are not clean. They are dirty. They are unkempt. People just throw their trash in open spaces and alleys. Furthermore, the garbage collection system is inefficient, and people never had the initiative to clean the Continue reading...