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USA Today's series examining the USGBC and LEED continues with a focus on the relationship between the organzation, LEED development, and the building industry.
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The USGBC repsponds to USA Today's article critiquing LEED, asserting that "LEED isn't perfect, but it is always improving" and "the costs of individual LEED credits are irrelevant because the market learns to deliver green buildings at little to no added cost."
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USA Today asserts that the green-building rating system wins tax breaks and grants, higher rents, and expedited permitting for low-cost, minor steps that have little or no proven environmental benefit.
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Modern LEED-Platinum home is sealed tight but open to fresh air and sunshine.
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Now in its second year, the LEED Fellows Program announced this year’s winners.
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The fifth public comment period is now open, and the USGBC is accepting responses until Dec. 10.
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The team of Olin landscape architects, Fisher Marantz Stone, Ballinger, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects delivered a LEED Platinum–certified building for the Barnes Foundation.
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The fifth public comment period will be open until Dec. 2.
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A decommissioned airbase became a pedestrian campus with five LEED Gold–certified buildings, thanks to RSP Architects and Lake|Flato Architects.
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New California research shows third-party labeled homes sell for more.