Community Beautification
Beautification can have a tremendous positive impact on a community, especially one that is already struggling. Here is a list of resources, ideas, and additional information that will help you to better understand why beautification is so important and what you can do to get involved.
" . . .. a ground-breaking study from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania now offers solid evidence that investment in greening yields significant economic returns, specifically, dramatic increases in real estate values. "
Too see the ultimate and most cost effective way to promote and accomplish beautification, please read my Vision page.
Here I have provided a list of under-utilized resources available in most communites. I will add detailed info later.
Read this simple idea about how to obtain perennials for your community beautification projects . . .ABSOLUTELY FREE !
Read this first ! Use this as a useful document for winning support for beautification. (Valuable information to those who are new to it.)
Here is a really cool idea on how to keep your empty flower beds looking beautiful all winter long.
This is a somewhat comprehensive look at beautification in a low income community. Covers step by step points to consider.
Here is something worth thinking about that could turn mowing vacant lots into a Win Win Win!
Call it a "Hill Billy Dump Truck" if you'd like . . . but Red Green would be proud of this one!
These are a few of the more recent cleanup and beautification projects I have worked on here in 2008.
