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LEED

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LEED Firsts

LEED is still very much in its infancy. How can I tell? Everyone still talks about LEED firsts. Here are just a few that I have found while surfing the internet.

The USGBC Owes Its Success to Al Gore

I believe that while green building and sustainable design would have continued on its slow course to the mainstream, it was Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” that set the trend ablaze.

Hidden Costs of Products and Buildings

True sustainable design cannot account for only the direct usage of resources, but the life cycle costs of all items that our processes consume to manufacture and distribute those resources.

There is No Such Thing as a LEED Certified Product

I have been researching sustainable products for a project I am working on. I have noticed a number of products that make misleading or false statements. Here are some of the ones I have found.

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