Flap Blog
Through Trillium Funding, FLAP Announces New Staffperson
January 25th 2012
Thanks to a generous grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) has had the great good fortune to hire Paloma Plant as our full-time Program Coordinator. A FLAP founding member and tireless volunteer, Paloma…
LEED Introduces Bird Collision Prevention Pilot Credit
November 25th 2011
The long-sought dream of having LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) introduce the bird building collision issue into it’s rating system has finally arrived. This Fall, the U.S. Green Building Council introduced Pilot Credit 55: Bird Collision Prevention. The…
San Francisco Mandates Bird-Safe Building Standards
November 25th 2011
In July 2011, San Francisco took the bold and beautiful step to become another major city in the world to mandate bird-safe building measures. It’s Standards for Bird-Safe Buildings includes requirements for location-related hazards and building feature-related hazards. It’s feature-related…
BOMA and REALpac Urge Ontario and Alberta to Support Bird Collision Prevention Measures
November 25th 2011
In June 2011, BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Toronto and Calgary with REALpac (Real Property Association of Canada) joined forces and wrote a powerful letter to both the Ontario and Alberta Ministers of the Environment entitled, Bird Collisions with…
