20,000 And Growing: LEED For Homes Surpasses Milestone

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The U.S. Green Building Council announces that a not-too-shabby 20,000 residential building projects have been bestowed with LEED for Homes certification and that over 79,000 projects are in the pipeline.

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Comments

[vetxcl]

04:55 AM on 07/18/2012

And a byte about why LEED is useful: "LEED certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building, home or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at achieving high performance in key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality." - same source/link (usgbc.org)

[Linda from Deerfield]

05:09 PM on 07/29/2012

I just stopped by to give you an A for effort.

[vetxcl]

04:51 AM on 07/18/2012

Lazier version:Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design , but still vague.

[vetxcl]

04:50 AM on 07/18/2012

And for those who asssumed that AOLpo or the linked article would list a definition of what LEED stands for , there's this:

http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19