Ms. Anderson also felt that local residents, who had few options to hear live music, would patronize a club in their collective backyard rather than drive into the city.
If Central Park is the city's collective backyard, Chelsea Piers is becoming a sort of collective rec room -- a mega-mall of health and fitness.
"My instinct says no, but I can understand the fears of New Yorkers when there is a rash of episodes in our collective backyard".
As our demands for energy grow we should enhance the technologies for converting biomass and expand the programs to utilize this renewable source in our collective backyard.
Rocky Flats was in my backyard, but our collective backyard — from Tokyo to Cincinnati to Denver to Benton County, Wash., home of Hanford, which housed nine nuclear reactors and is now one of the most heavily contaminated places on earth — is under similar threat.
There's a river that runs through our collective backyards; it starts as clandestine springs somewhere atop a mountain to the north.
"Although each typical residential dwelling only causes one or a few bird window collisions per year, the enormous number of these buildings means we are killing far more birds in our collective backyards than are dying at large office buildings and skyscrapers," said Scott Loss, an Assistant Professor of Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University, who was not part of this study.
In our ever inter-connected world, we cannot turn a blind eye when a crisis in not in "our backyard". We all share a figurative "backyard," and every sector of society shares a collective responsibility to act swiftly and effectively to save lives.
They hold out the promise of something different, something that connects the jaded traveler to either a personal or a collective American past — the past of the frontier, of "On the Road," of backyard tree forts.
On the other hand, burning waste in the backyard was presented as one example of individual household pollution which on a collective level may have a serious impact on the environment.
It was a collective effort.
