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Infographic: Do You Know Your Neighbor?

- GOOD HQ and Oliver Munday

contributed in Culture, America and News

Being neighborly isn’t just giving a smile and nod to your neighbors when you see them on the street. It’s a way of life—a way to build a real social network that can connect you to hyper-local current events, political action, and groups you can join to make your community a better place to live and work.

What are ways we can improve how we engage with our communities?

guardianolympics:

London’s Olympic Park - before and after:

As the 2012 Olympic Games get under way at last, see the transformation of the area around Stratford, east London, in the seven years since London won the bid to host the Games.

—> click on the link to see the before and after shots

A view along the Greenway, Stratford, 2007, and in July 2012. Maurice Savage/Alamy, Antonio Olmos for the Guardian

guardianolympics:

London’s Olympic Park - before and after: As the 2012 Olympic Games get under way at last, see the transformation of the area around Stratford, east London, in the seven years since London won the bid to host the Games —> click on the link to see the before and after shots

A view along the Greenway, Stratford, 2007, and in July 2012.

Maurice Savage/Alamy, Antonio Olmos for the Guardian

watersidehouselondon:

Take a ride on the Emirates Air Line (cable car) over the river.

betalist:

Last time is an iPhone app that lets you track important events in your life. It can be small things like last time you changed your toothbrush to a more important one like the last time you called your parents or had a good time with you kids.

Last time remembers it all so you don’t have to.

Sign up here

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