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  2. Greenlight - Wikipedia

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    The power to greenlight a project is generally reserved to those in a project or financial management role within an organization. The process of taking a project from pitch to green light formed the basis of a successful reality TV show titled Project Greenlight. [4] The term is a reference to the green traffic signal, indicating "go ahead".

  3. Green Light - Wikipedia

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    Green Light, green light, green-light or greenlight may refer to: Green -colored light, part of the visible spectrum Greenlight , formal approval of a project to move forward

  4. Silencing the Past - Wikipedia

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    Silencing the Past is a meditation on the characteristics of power and how it influences the creation and recording of histories. Spanning examples from The Alamo and Christopher Columbus to the position of the Haitian Revolution in the collective memory of Western society, Trouillot analyzes conventional historical narratives to understand why certain parts of history are remembered when ...

  5. History of traffic lights - Wikipedia

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    At night a red light would command "Stop" and a green light would mean use "Caution". [3] Although it was said to be successful at controlling traffic, its operational life was brief. It exploded on 2 January 1869 as a result of a leak in one of the gas lines underneath the pavement [8] and injured the policeman who was operating it. [9]

  6. A History of Greenwashing: How Dirty Towels Impacted the ...

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    At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...

  7. Change the World Without Taking Power - Wikipedia

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    It looks at the understanding of power as the central focal point of how to effect meaningful change. Holloway uses two definitions of power, 'power-over' and 'power-to' in order to understand the difference between power from authority, power over someone else, and the power to do something, the capacity for action.

  8. Right to light - Wikipedia

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    The Law Commission of England and Wales undertook a review of the law and practice of rights to light and reported to Parliament in 2014 with several recommendations and a draft Bill including: a statutory notice procedure which would allow landowners to require their neighbours to tell them within a specified time if they intend to seek an ...

  9. Green wave - Wikipedia

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    Copenhagen, [4] Amsterdam, [5] San Francisco, [6] and other cities may synchronize traffic signals to provide a green light for a flow of cyclists. On San Francisco's Valencia Street, the signals were retimed in early 2009 to provide a green wave in both directions, possibly the first street in the world with a two-way green wave for cyclists.