Professor Daniel Klem, at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, says that birds don’t see windows and that at least 1 billion are killed by flying into them every year in the United States! (This is from a segment by John Nielsen on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition”, Jan. 3, 2006.) Along with Carr Everbach, from Swarthmore College’s engineering faculty, he implemented the use of special “fritted” glass in a new building on Swarthmore’s campus. It has rows of circles etched into the glass, which hopefully make it more visible to birds while still allowing humans to look out through it.
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About Me
- Tom Owens
- I'm interested in nature, technology, and the human interface between the two. I see anthropocentrism (often combined with ethnocentrism and/or excessive religious fervor) as probably the most damaging human mindset, at least environmentally-speaking. A great goal of mine is to inspire a love of nature in people. I believe we will all benefit if everyone can create a bond with other organisms and feel the connectedness of all life on our planet. We all have to realize that humans are not separate from the rest of nature.
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