Is There a Loophole in LEED Building Certification?
Utne Reader, 8/2/2010 3:57:23 PM
by Will Wlizlo
So your new corporate campus was built with reclaimed lumber and uses 90 percent renewable energy. Too bad on the inside it might be a toxic deathtrap. In These Times reports on a possible loophole in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building-certification criteria that could allow otherwise sustainable buildings to have dangerously substandard ventilation and water quality systems.