LEED

'No Credits, Just Prerequisites'

The Living Building Challenge is a new environmental rating system that focuses on required environmental design elements, diverging dramatically from the credit-based approach of the built environment's dominant rating system, LEED.

6 November 2009 - 11:00am

Metropolis Magazine

Nate Berg

Halloween Costumes for Urban Planners - 2nd Edition

Mon, 10/26/2009 - 07:07

It's almost Halloween, and that means it's time to celebrate America's most important holiday by dressing up in a silly costume. But what's that? Tired of culturally relevant costumes? Don't want the general public to have any idea what you are? Prefer a drawn-out, interest-losing explanation of an obscure and wonky costume concept? Then you're in luck, because I happily present the second edition list of the best urban planning costume ideas.

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LEED On Its Way Out?

As part of GOOD's Top 100 Ideas of 2009, author Jacob Gordon celebrates the fact that other standards of efficiency are gaining traction abroad and in the US.

10 October 2009 - 5:00am

Good

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Reborn Green

The New York Times takes a look at Greensburg, Kansas, the tornado-ravaged town that rebuilt itself to high environmental standards.

25 September 2009 - 9:00am

The New York Times

Sustainability is a Lifestyle, Not an Accessory

Witold Rybczynski bemoans the green movement's emphasis on sustainability measure that treat environmental action as a process of accessorizing rather than changing lifestyles.

17 September 2009 - 11:00am

The Atlantic

Buildings That Are Green But Not Energy-Efficient

LEED-certified buildings may be constructed with little energy, but some are just as energy-intensive as non "green" buildings once they're in use. This disconnect is prompting the U.S. Green Building Council to change its rules.

1 September 2009 - 5:00am

The New York Times

Misleading LEED Claims

This piece from Grist looks at the use and abuse of the sustainability buzzword "LEED".

6 July 2009 - 7:00am

Grist

Sustainable Chalupas?

A new KFC/Taco Bell combo restaurant in Northhampton, Massachusetts has been awarded LEED certification.

25 June 2009 - 8:00am

Yum! Brands

Clinton Promoting 'Climate-Positive' Communities

Last week in Seoul, Bill Clinton announced a new collaboration between the Clinton Climate Initiative and the U.S. Green Building Council to go beyond the single LEED building and create new green development models for whole communities.

27 May 2009 - 12:00pm

The New York Times

LEED Platinum for Dogs?

A redesign for an animal shelter in St. Louis works to make a space warmer and fuzzier than the usual pound to encourage adoption. HOK Architects, the pro bono designers, are pursuing a LEED Platinum rating for the pet palace.

22 May 2009 - 7:00am

Jetson Green

Green School Building Bill Passes House

The Democrats of the U.S. House of Representatives have passed a bill that would create a green school building program in the U.S., investing more than $6 billion in its first year to build more environmentally friendly schools.

18 May 2009 - 5:00am

NPR

Vancouver's Sustainable Olympic Village

With goals of LEED-certification and plans for reuse after the games, Vancouver's Olympic Village is being called a model for event-based sustainability.

8 May 2009 - 7:00am

Architectural Record

A Case for LEED-ND: The LEED Platinum Suburban Office Park

A new LEED Platinum building in suburban Minneapolis may be the greenest single building in the state, but what about all those who must drive there? The City of Lakes blog looks at the fallacy of LEED rankings when location is not factored in.

7 April 2009 - 1:00pm

City of Lakes Urbanism

Slow and Steady Survives the Recession

Pittsburgh's strategy of slow, steady growth has made it the front runner for sustainable building. The city now boasts the most LEED-certified square footage in the country.

2 April 2009 - 7:00am

The New York Times

From Concrete Box to LEED-Certified

Prisons around the country are looking less and less like the typical concrete box; Washington state has 34 LEED-certified prisons, some of which offer "green work" programs.

5 March 2009 - 5:00am

The New York Times

Building Codes Gone Green

From Boston to Austin to L.A., more and more cities across the U.S. are making efforts to reduce their carbon emissions and environmental impact by instituting green building codes.

5 February 2009 - 5:00am

Governing

Builders Chafe at Green Standards

The State of Connecticut will enact a new green building code in January, and builders are already calling it "awkward" and "unworkable".

16 December 2008 - 5:00am

The New York Times

Green Building Industry Staying Afloat

While many construction and development projects are finding trouble getting funded, sustainable design firms are hanging in there.

12 November 2008 - 10:00am

The Architect's Newspaper

Plenty Green But Too Tall?

In what may prove a decisive test to see the political limits of what green building offers developers, a LEED Platinum, 10-story office building is proposed along San Francisco's tightly regulated waterfront - exceeding the height limit by 40 feet.

10 November 2008 - 12:00pm

San Francisco Chronicle