"About a billion birds - die each year by crashing into buildings they cannot see.... building collision is the second biggest cause of death to birds after habitat destruction.... But even for many ecoconscious building owners and developers, the price of preventing bird kills is too high"
MURDERERS!!!!!!!!
You see what I mean?
It CAUSES DEATHS, this ENVIRONMENTAL FARCE of FASCISM!!
LIES KILL, folks!!!!
No photograph of the dead robin on the ground!
"Fatal reflections; As 'green' architecture advances, glass buildings pose hazard to birds" by Bina Venkataraman, Globe Correspondent | December 15, 2008
Boston is striving to become a leader in green building. But glass siding and atriums, common features of green architecture, carry an unintended side-effect: a mortal danger to birds.
An estimated 5 percent of the country's bird population - or about a billion birds - die each year by crashing into buildings they cannot see, according to Daniel Klem, an ornithologist at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania who has studied bird collisions for more than 30 years. Migratory birds, including songbirds whose populations are already on the decline, crash into glass in especially large numbers.
While environmentalists often express concern about the effects of wind turbines and oil spills on birds, few realize that building collision is the second biggest cause of death to birds after habitat destruction, said Karen Imparato Cotton of the American Bird Conservancy.
And that danger is increasing as cities, Boston among them, erect buildings that emphasize natural light, and as improvements in the energy efficiency of glass increase its use.
Two properties of glass that make it so appealing - the way it reflects light and allows us to see through it - are the very reason that birds crash into it. In the windows and glass facades of buildings, birds see mirror-images of trees, sky, and shrubs they want to fly toward, or they may see food, water, or habitat inside or beyond atriums.
The effect of such architecture "flies in the face of conscientious green design," said Hillary Brown, principal for New Civic Works in New York.
Unlike Chicago and New York, Boston does not have a cadre of volunteers that count bird collisions into buildings. In those cities, dozens, sometimes hundreds, of birders go out in the early hours during bird migration in the spring and fall to collect and identify species of birds that crash into buildings....
A few months ago, Boston did start a campaign to dim or turn out lights seasonally to deal with another cause of bird collisions - skyscraper lights that disorient migrating birds that navigate by stars. The owners of high-profile properties such as the John Hancock Tower turned down their lights after midnight for several weeks this fall, during migration season....
Why are the LIGHTS on at all if the environment is such a big deal?
But even for many ecoconscious building owners and developers, the price of preventing bird kills is too high.... The best fix, said Bruce Fowle, senior partner at FxFowle Architects, the firm that designed the prism-like Conde Nast building in Times Square, would be to make glass differently. A German company makes a UV-striped glass that is translucent to humans but detectable by birds. But the problem, Fowle said, is that it costs about 30 percent more than other high-performing glass.
Fowle's wife, Marcia, a board member of New York City Audubon, said that years ago, she told her husband that a building that uses recycled material and runs on solar power is not green enough. "You can't be green and kill something," she said. "It's a contradiction."
--more--"I TOTALLY AGREE!!!
You know, until the war-promoting, agenda-pushing papers and the enviro-cultists start PROTESTING the WAR MACHINE and NASCAR, well, I don't want to hear the.... what's that? Whatcha say?
"NASCAR coverage was also expanded on the cable channel New England Sports Network, which is owned by New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of the Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group. The New York Times Co., which owns The Boston Globe, holds a 17 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures."
Yeah, TELL ME AGAIN about GLOBAL WARMING and the ENVIRONMENT!!
What a CAST of F****** HYPOCRITES!!!!!!
