Sentences with phrase «if nimby»

Caveat: if the NIMBY effect can be overcome.

If NIMBY weren't as much of an issue as it is, we could probably take advantage of distributed heat systems for much of our urban existing home stock.

Not exact matches

This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

If a Great Political Guidebook of our time existed — and the reason it doesn't is largely so the public continue to labour under the misapprehension that certain lobby correspondents actually know what they're talking about — the term NIMBY would occupy an inauspicious location within it.

If someone was proposing to drive a ruddy great train line straight through my property, it's a surefire bonker certainty that I'd be a NIMBY too.

The book starts with a list of must - know acronyms (from GHG to HVAC to NIMBY (greenhouse gasses, heating ventilation and air conditioning, not in my back yard if you're wondering)-RRB- and then quickly launches into an explanation of what Clean Tech means, what it is, and why it's booming.

But if we are going to solve our housing problems and our carbon problems, we are all going to have to stop all these NIMBY fights that prevent «missing middle» housing.

Speaking before the U.S. Conference of Mayors» National Economic Summit in Manhattan, the president of the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) urged the nation's leading mayors and business executives to defy NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) opposition to apartments if they want to create vibrant communities.