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He releases his platform for his bid for president - of the Fenway Garden Society
By adamg on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 5:36pm
Mike Mennonno explains why he's running for president of the non-profit group that runs the Fenway Victory Gardens:
[I]t doesn't take long for derelict gardens to become favorites of overnight partiers, intravenous drug users, or squatters. Broken windows. And just like in neighborhoods with blight, it tends to spread. We find it harder to recruit and retain gardeners when the plots adjacent to theirs have become public toilets.
So we have a chronic health and safety issue on our hands that requires real organization and coordination among our entire membership to effectively address.
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Good luck, he's going to need
Good luck, he's going to need it. Until the Army Corps of Engineers removes the reeds in a few years there's no way, aside from a 24/7 neighborhood watch presence on site, that things are ever going to be anywhere resembling under control in that area.
Go Mike!
I like the way this guy thinks.
broken window theory is bullshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows...
broken window theory is really bullshit?
Hi Brett,
I read the Wikipedia article you linked to. I was surprised to see that there was no statement that the "broken windows theory is bullshit". I did read that there were criticisms, though these seemed to be a in section labeled "controversial". One of the criticisms was because of a study where SCIENTISTS painted graffiti and then monitored that area vs. an area that was kept in an ordered fashion. I find that in my neighborhood of JP, there seems to be less crime (anecdotal) where our neighbors actively clean up and report graffiti sprayed by actual "miscreants" (ok, I admit a weakness for that Pixie girl whose, ahem, late persona I cannot remember and possibly Banksy).
That's nothing
There's a whole article at Wikipedia for "Global warming controversy"...which is just stupid since scientific evidence has determined it to be a fact.
Claiming that something is "bullshit" just because someone posts a section on Wikipedia outlining the opinion that it's "bullshit" doesn't make them right in any way.
you know the great thing about the broken windows theory...?
... so let's say you try to put it in practice. you get an involved community that fixes all the "broken windows", to keep further vandalism at bay.
and let's say you still wind up with some vandalism...
the great thing, is that you haven't really lost. or failed. and you know why? BECAUSE YOU STILL HAVE FEWER BROKEN WINDOWS.
it's a net gain, even if it's not a cause-and-effect victory.
the community still wins.