Better Block at TEDx
Jason Roberts, founder of the Better Block project, presented at TEDxOU and TEDxAustin over the past month and talked about the history of the project and what led up to its development. The video for TEDxOU was just released and provides a great insight to how everyone can make change rapidly by showing up, creating strong identities for their projects, and “blackmailing yourself” into action!
Jason, your work is fantastic. We have been inspired by it at Neighborland, and are doing all kinds of fun, grassroots, self-organized projects in New Orleans. We had a night market with 500 people that showed up on St. Claude, and now we’re working with a city councilmember on petitioning the federal government to extend the street car into the Bywater/Seventh Ward. Keep rocking! I hope we can collaborate in the future.