2008 Woodie Awards
No, not the Alfred Hitchcock film – I’m talking about the campaign underway to rescue approximately 10,000 migrating birds as they attempt to make their way through the maze of New York City skyscrapers. Lights Out New York is a program that exhorts owners of tall buildings to turn off the lights of the top stories so that birds won’t crash into the windows at night.
It’s not exactly the type of thing most of us would ever think to identify as a problem, but 10,000 birds is nothing to scoff at. For the most part, we all recognize that man’s progress has, at times, conflicted with the habitats of other species in some form or another. But when painting a mental image of this conflict, we tend to conceive of bulldozers plowing through fields or pollutants contaminating water. It’s refreshing to see that people are coming up with novel solutions to address environmental concerns on multiple fronts. Naturally (no pun intended), my first thought upon hearing this initiative was of the astronomical amount of energy that could potentially be saved. It did not immediately register that animals’ lives were at stake as well because it’s an issue I scarcely knew about. Could this yield new common ground between corner-office executives and animal rights activists? That may be a bit of a stretch, but every small improvement helps.
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