Saving the World,
a Yard at a Time

Cape Fear Audubon Introduces
Bird-Friendly Habitat Award Program
by Charley Winterbauer
volume 3, issue1 — pages 3-4
If you enjoy watching birds, you’ll be interested in Cape Fear Audubon Society’s new Bird-Friendly Habitat Award Program. This tool can help you create a plan for a more bird-friendly yard, no matter what your starting point. Along the way, it might also help lower your utility bill, reduce your yard work time, and help balance our local ecosystem. Surveys show we are losing migratory birds at a rate of 1% a year. Why is this?
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By the Time
I Get to Phoenix

CFCC Class Wins Prize
in National Design Competition
by Ron Wilson
volume 3, issue 1 — page 14
This year’s project challenge was to design a nine-unit multi-family building. The building would be meant to inspire the residents and the surrounding neighborhood with an uplifting green example of what is possible with forethought and vision. The staggered, stepped form and butterfly roof resembles a flock of birds taking flight; this symbolizes breaking free of stereotypes and starting a new life. Hence, the mythical, colorful bird, “The Phoenix” became the metaphor and logo...
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Glocalization

Your Ecological House™
by Skip Wenz
volume 3, issue 1 — page 19
I call it the “glocal economy.” By that I mean the blended global and local economies in which we are all embedded.
Some of the products we consume are produced locally, and the money we pay for them circulates locally. This benefits our own communities.
Most of the products we consume are produced elsewhere, increasingly in foreign countries. While expenditures for foreign goods confer some benefits on those who produce them, they mostly enrich the top management of transnational corporations and the international financiers who invest in them.
As more of society’s wealth is transferred to these “globalizers,” less is available for everyone else…
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Rebuilding Habitat

Attracting Caterpillars to Your Garden
by Alistair Glen
volume 3, issue 1 — page 8
“Attract caterpillars? Are you crazy!”, I can already hear some of you say. But I hope to change the way you regard these industrious and essential insects, by looking at the bigger picture and explaining the important role they play.
Many of us know that by planting milkweed we can attract Monarch butterflies, which lay their eggs on milkweed plants. From each egg a caterpillar hatches, eating milkweed leaves before retreating into a chrysalis. Around ten days later, a beautiful Monarch butterfly emerges. Life cycle complete—and we have in a small way helped the Monarch butterfly continue its journey of survival…
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Click below to open the special Earth Day edition of Cape Fear’s Going Green. You can read it on screen or save it to your computer for future reference. As always, you can print out some or all pages: they fit neatly on regular 8.5" x 11" paper.

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