Go out in your yard, then, to watch the people who aren't there. Be the change you want to see, etc. Or possibly learn why they don't go out, "never noticed that odor til i sat here for an hour... now i'll never not notice it"
I lived in a three-storey walk-up that was built at a shift in grade, so two of the floors were ground-level.
The top floor (us) had a small balcony in the front, and that was it.
The middle floor had a medium-sized ground floor patio out the front of the building adjacent to the parking area, and a small balcony in the back.
the lower floor had a gigantic fenced ground-floor yard that was easily bigger than the entire top floor we lived in. They were the only people in the building who had any green space.
Speak for yourself. We've got a small yard. The kid loves it -- when I get stuffy about screen time, he gets bored and unless the weather is awful, he'll go out and play. There's other kids on the block, and they'd be friends (well, or enemies, but there's valuable life lessons there either way) by now if there were shared spaces.
