Yes! In Our Back Yard. IOBY.org
NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) is an unwillingness to take responsability for both the positive and negative externalities of a given industry that makes the products we use. In addition to resistance to egregious companies, it includes resistance to wind, solar, bioenergy, etc for reasons ranging from health, ecology, aesthetics, and property values and yet doesn’t consider how our daily use of these resources mined or manufactured elsewhere takes away our democratic powers of regulating the pollution associated with our own consumption. In Our Back Yard or ioby.org makes my heart swell. It helps communities organize and fund sustainable projects block by block in NYC. X!
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