Litter: A Threshold Issue

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Our Mission

• Engage Individuals to Take Greater Responsibility
  for Improving Their
• Community Environments

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Guiding Principles

• Enduring Partnerships for
• Community Change

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Guiding Principles

• Education

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Litter A Threshold Issue
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Keep America Beautiful, Inc.

• Litter Prevention
• Beautification
• Waste Reduction

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People Litter

• Where they feel no sense of ownership for the
  property
• Where someone else will clean up after them
• Where litter has already accumulated

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2006 GovernorsLitter Summit

• Education
• Eradication
• Enforcement

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Certification

• Citizens
• Business
• Government

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The Wisdom of Crowds

• James Surowiecki

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Problems/Questions

• Cognition Have or will have definitive
  solutions
• Coordination Members of a group coordinate
  their behavior
• Cooperation Getting self-interested people to
  work together

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Three Conditions Necessary for a Wise Crowd

• Diversity
• Independence
• Decentralization

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The Wealth of Cities

• John Norquist

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A Simple Formula

• Cities form as people gather
• Communicate, work, trade
• Sell, buy, and specialize easily

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Cities Unleash Process that Build Civilization

• Specialization of labor
• Concentrated capital
• Greater productivity

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Choosing Civility

• P.M. Forni

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What is Civility?

• Civility is complex good.
• Whatever civility might be, it has to do with
  courtesy, politeness, and good manners.
• Civility belongs in the realm of ethics.

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Courtesy

• Connected to court bearing expected in those
  close to royalty

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Politeness

• Polish those who have polished their behavior

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Manners

• Manus the Latin word for hand a mode of
  handling

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The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct
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Rule 24

• Respect the environment
• Dont litter
• Take time to recycle
• Conserve water
• Conserve electricity
• Conserve fuel

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The Postcard Test

• Postcards depict a citys landmarks. Cable
  cars, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower,
  the Wrigley Building, instantly identify the
  beautiful images of a city. What would you put
  on a postcard?

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• People are seeking more from life. People are
  seeking a sense of belonging, of community. I
  believe part of what they are looking for can be
  found in real neighborhoods, in real cities.

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• Since World War II, Main Street the
  two-rod-wide street that has stores with
  sidewalks in front and apartments or offices
  above has been newly constructed in only a few
  places..

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• Disneyland and Disneyworld. Walt Disney
  understood, perhaps better than anyone else,
  American dreams and desires.

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• Visitors to Disneyworld would do well to
  remember this. They just might find what they
  are looking for with free admission if they
  search a little closer to home.

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2006 GovernorsLitter Summit

• Education
• Eradication
• Enforcement

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