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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

How Loud is a Wind Turbine? (Infographic)

Image: GE Reports, used with permission. GE Reports , which is apparently a blog “sponsored by GE but created by a bunch of tech people” (whatever that means) has a nice infographic that shows how loud a wind turbine is on average depending on how far away you are. While GE makes wind turbines and isn’t an unbiased source, they are using data from the NIDCD (part of the National Institute of Health), a pretty credible source…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Watch The Simpsons Season 21 Episode 19 (S21E19) Online Free Streaming

Watch The Simpsons Season 219 – The Squirt and the Whale. The Simpsons decide to embrace a cheaper, alternate source of energy by erecting a wind turbine in their backyard. But when Homer realizes some of the power is being directed to the local electric company, he decides to remove his home from the grid and becomes completely dependent upon an unreliable source of power. Meanwhile, a storm erupts, trapping a magnificent 150-foot-long blue whale ashore, and Lisa and Homer attempt to help the poor creature. Watch The Simpsons 21 Continue reading