
With all the greenwashing going on today, wouldn’t it be nice to have definitive “green” standards in architecture – a way to tell exactly which buildings are environmentally sustainable, and which architects practice sustainable design? There is an industry wide system to just this called “LEED” which was developed around the year 2000.
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