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• NIMBY And The Coming Energy Crisis

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 527
  Long-time readers of Boom2Bust.com know that it’s my belief we’re heading towards a serious energy crisis. I attribute this partially to the philosophy of NIMBY, or “not-in-my-backyard.” CNN Money’s Steve Hargreaves wrote this morning: “Drill baby drill” is so 2008. More than a year after ...
  3 days ago

• Menus of Baker and Banker, the New New American Place at Octavia and Bush

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  Get up to speed first .   Now, here are the debut menus for Baker & Banker . Click to expand:  The neighbors, like Ashley H ., seemed pleased, anyway: “I live right around the block from Baker & Banker, and when I saw that a new restaurant was opening I was so excited to try it out, so I ...
  3 days ago

• RENEWABLE ENERGY: Cape Wind to negotiate deal with utility

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 417
  Image: An offshore wind farm situated in the Baltic Sea near Samsø, Denmark . The utility, National Grid , has offered to start negotiations in order to formulate a deal to purchase power from  Cape Wind . At issue, is the cost of energy from the offshore wind project. If the deal is successful, it will help Cape ...
  4 days ago

• Wind projects don’t harm property values: study

  
  Environment — Authority: 551
  Not-in-my-backyard — or NIMBY — protests can stall or stop wind power projects, with their spinning turbines, or other renewable energy projects, as Reuters has reported here . But a new study issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory gives wind power companies and ...
  4 days ago

• Wind projects don’t harm property values: study

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  A new study finds that wind power does not necessarily deserve the stigmas that it sometimes carries.
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• “Market-Driven New American Cuisine” – Baker & Banker Set to Open This Week in Pac Heights

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  Combining our twin obsessions of food and money, it’s  Baker & Banker ! And they’re all set to serve up steak, cast-iron potatoes and more  starting this week (probably tomorrow, December 1, 2009) at 1701 Octavia betwixt Bush and Pine . Will our Quince replacement  get along well with its ...
  1 week ago

• El Segundo ready to fight proposed MTA rail yard (Source: Th Daily Breeze)

  
  Pedestrian View Of Los Angeles — Authority: 130
  El Segundo ready to fight proposed MTA rail yard - The Daily Breeze El Segundo ready to fight proposed MTA rail yard By Andrea Woodhouse Posted: 11/15/2009 06:02:19 AM PST El Segundo city officials are seething over a county pitch to build a train maintenance facility in town as part of an ...
  1 week ago

• Unsafe At Any Speed

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 524
  There are at least four families in Palo Alto who will be having a less joyous Thanksgiving this year - four families touched by the tragedy of suicide. This year, four teenagers have committed suicide by walking in front of Caltrain locomotives on the at-grade section of the tracks near Gunn High School. Now, a ...
  1 week ago

• On Our Radar ...

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 718
  The casualties rise at the site of a Chinese coal mine explosion, holding the refrigerator open can be more efficient, and other energy and environment news from around the Web.
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• Photos: Residents Protest Garbage Incinerator in Guangdong (Updated)

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 622
  Residents of Panyu, Guangdong, are protesting plans to build a garbage incinerator in their city, and the actions are being tweeted live at the hashtag #pylj . @ellachou is translating many of the tweets into English. Photos have been posted on flickr and Twitter : (by [BLT]FQX ) (”We Don’t Want to be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rethinking NIMBY: Why Wind Power Could Lead To New Ways of Defining (and Dealing With) Public Naysaying

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 882
  True story: A small college in the Midwest wanted to put up a wind turbine on their campus. The school, being on top of a hill in the middle of the prairie, had enough wind to produce upwards of 3/4 of their needed electricity, so the project made good sense. But when it came time to talk to the people living nearby, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Our New and Improved Sutro Tower Now Has New and Improved Digital Broadcasts

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  Not that you’d really be able to tell, though. Sutro Tower Inc . has just finished a project that had some of the digital TV broadcast antennas (not “antennae” – that plural term is only used for bugs in our silly English language) gaining a higher altitude. Not much howver, maybe a seven-percent increase, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Age of Stupid

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 129
  The University of Manchester hoasted an event on Climate Change today, which they called CO2sts the Earth . Plenty of participation and things being thrown around, which was good. At the end of the day, we got to watch the not-so-widely discussed 2009 dystopic view of humanity’s future, The Age of Stupid . I’m ...
  2 weeks ago

• No Traffic

  
  The Overhead Wire — Authority: 467
  Its the title to a great album by a band called the stereo. Its also the scream given off by NIMBYs everywhere in their quest for the status quo. Most recently developers of the Sacramento Railyards won versus the traffic tattlers who cried traffic when the rail yard development environmental impact statement ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Poor Must be Included

  
  CityKin — Authority: 130
  You cannot have a great city without rich and poor living downtown. This is the first requirement of healthy cities . - Jacquein Robertson, 1995 A 10 minute video, probably too long for general readers, but some of you in the planning field will find it interesting: The Way We Live - A Modern Architecture ...
  2 weeks ago

• White Flight Still Happening

  
  CityKin — Authority: 130
  I thought this was the 21st century?! The article in the Enquirer today about new growth in Harrison has generated the typical nonsense commentary, but commentary that nonetheless is telling: mustbGWBsfault wrote: i grew up in covedale, moved to delhi. then the metro moved in and now there are shopping carts ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Rich NIMBYs of “Neighbors of SFGH” have a Grand Party on Potrero Hill

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 509
  If you can tell the difference between the helipad-hating “ Neighbors of SFGH ” vs. the Stop the Helipad  haters, well, then you’re one up on me. What they are, they’re a bunch of NIMBYs on a hill who don’t care how many people have died, and how many more will die, due to the lack of a helipad at San ...
  2 weeks ago

• The barrier stays

  
  Fagstein — Authority: 476
  The barrier segregating Montreal West from the Ville Saint Pierre district of Lachine is here to stay. The Quebec Court of Appeal this week upheld a lower court ruling that Montreal West was within its rights to setup a barrier to car traffic between the two towns. Though Montreal (which the Lachine borough is part ...
  3 weeks ago

• BLM defers Mt Princeton geothermal lease sale

  
  Salida Citizen — Authority: 135
  At a request from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, the BLM withheld a proposed geothermal lease on property near the Mt Princeton Hot Springs Resort from its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held today in Denver. While oil and gas leases are commonplace for the BLM, the Mt. Princeton parcel is likely ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fallacies offer cold comfort for cognitive dissonance

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  “Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” ~ Mark Twain Twain’s wisdom came to mind as I read a recent article by new Dispatch columnist John Larson (another new club member; welcome!) about medical marijuana dispensaries. Near as I can tell, Larson ...
  3 weeks ago

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