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From the monthly archives:
The U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system is a voluntary, consensus-based standard for developing high performance, sustainable buildings. The independent rating system is acknowledged by real estate experts, national governmental agencies and state and local governments to be the benchmark system for green building practices.
If anyone hasn’t read this article from the New York Times, you really should. It discusses the problems with building green and not maintaining green.Read the article here
As more and more new buildings applied for the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification for new construction and renovation, the council became concerned that the standards to maintain the buildings needed definition. Why spend time, energy and money to construct or renovate a green building that would not be maintained with green standards? The [...]
