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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This letter is from today’s Sun-Times letters to the
editor; kudos to the writer. I encourage everyone to write letters not only to
the editors but, more importantly, to the reporters. (Their email address will
be someplace on the paper’s website.) Short emails are best. It only
takes 3 lines to make your point. Even “environmental” reporters
know nothing about birds: what kills them and what keeps them alive. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Randi Doeker – <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chicago</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Hazardous to birds</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I
read David Roeder's column ["Eco-friendly builders starting to grow;
office developers and their tenants see value in 'green' stamp"] in the
business section of the Feb. 20 edition concerning eco-friendly builders. I
work at an adjacent building, and my office overlooks the 111 South Wacker
building, the focus of his article. I wanted to point out that while this
building does indeed have many people-friendly features, the landscaped green
roof is surrounded by glass! This feature does not make it an environmentally
sound building; it makes it a nightmare for high-flying migratory birds that
cannot detect the glass and try to fly through it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It
is bad enough that we have landscaped, glass-enclosed lobbies that confuse and
tempt birds to crash into them, but now we have landscaped, glass-enclosed
roofs as well! This is just one more nightmare for our migratory birds while
they navigate through <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>.
So, while this building might be people-friendly, it certainly is not
bird-friendly. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It
is a wonderful thing that builders are becoming environmentally aware, but it
angers me that this building has garnered so much praise and recognition as
being eco-friendly (making it a possible model for future buildings) when in
reality it poses a tremendous threat to our migratory birds. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Barbara Shaw, <br>
Irving Park</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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