{"id":1035,"date":"2010-10-17T12:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T19:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/1035\/"},"modified":"2010-12-13T12:06:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T19:06:59","slug":"yimby-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/17\/1035\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme YIMBYism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About a month ago in discussion I suggested that if neighbourhoods were required to manage their own waste, as in each maintain their own small landfill, things we change pretty darn fast. People would <em>immediately<\/em> drastically reduce their waste, and public support for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extended_producer_responsibility\">extended producer responsibility<\/a> would be high enough to enforce the kind of laws they have in places like Germany.<\/p>\n<p>To advocate for such a proposal &#8211; putting a landfill in one&#8217;s own neighbourhood &#8211; is probably a tough sell. I was thinking that this is kind of a reverse NIMBYism, or YIMBYism, referring the the phenomenon of people not wanting any undesirable things which have to exist somewhere to be anywhere near them. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YIMBY\">YIMBY on Wikipedia<\/a> is  an interesting short article which introduced me to the similar concepts of BANANA and CAVE People (see the article) but also points to a narrower definition that would really include my landfill example. So a better description would have to be extreme yimbism.<\/p>\n<p>In a related note, it seems that Toronto had its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladstonehotel.com\/events\/exhibitions\/yimby\">4th Annual YIMBY Festival<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Also regarding the word &#8220;waste&#8221; I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/your.kingcounty.gov\/solidwaste\/ecoconsumer\/blog.asp?ID=90\">Tom Watson<\/a> that it should be treated only as a noun rather than a verb, which he alludes to in his recent post <a href=\"http:\/\/your.kingcounty.gov\/solidwaste\/EcoConsumer\/blog.asp?ID=90&amp;CatID=1&amp;PostID=360\">Why phone books matter<\/a> on new producer responsibility legislation in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago in discussion I suggested that if neighbourhoods were required to manage their own waste, as in each maintain their own small landfill, things we change pretty darn fast. People would immediately drastically reduce their waste, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/17\/1035\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[718,719,715,717,716],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-extendedproducerresponsibility","tag-landfill","tag-nimby","tag-waste","tag-yimby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}