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Jargon Watch: Acronyms Every Green Urbanist Should Know

Image Credit Judit Klein Everybody knows NIMBY and even BANANA, but there are a lot more abbreviations for those people and organizations that want to obstruct or delay projects, be it a wind turbine, bike lane, or urban intensification. Yuri Artibise rounds up 15 , including some gems: CAVE [people]: Citizens Against Virtually Everything DBTD : Death By a Thousand Days–another common tactic used by planners to “fix” a project they don’t like.

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Jargon Watch: Acronyms Every Green Urbanist Should Know

Yet Another Attempt to Define Sustainability

Next to “Green” it is perhaps the most overused and misunderstood word in the envirobiz; We previously asked “Is Sustainability Over” ; Bill McDonough thought it over years ago when he said “We still have people talking about ‘sustainability’! Nothing is more boring. Are you proud if your marriage is ‘sustainable’?” But that hasn’t stopped Eric Zencey from taking a shot at it in Orion Magazine. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Yet Another Attempt to Define Sustainability