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The leadership in energy and environment design (LEED) is a third party certification program which is accepted internationally.

Only nine years into its existence LEED is the most well known green building rating system in the United States.


LEED recognizes performance in five areas of human and environmental health for buildings to be certified and an additional two categories for homes.

Sustainable site development, water efficiency, energy efficient construction, material selection and indoor environmental quality with "location and linkages" and "awareness and education" being the additional categories for homes.

There are many reasons to get LEED certified including government incentives and gaining recognition for green building efforts.

You'll find bloggers talking about LEED at sites like Green Professionals Blog and Green Buildings Blog.

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  A father’s heartbeat is in search of life a mother’s heartbeat is life itself. -William Leed-
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  Never let uncertain trust be the highway to FORBEARANCE. -William Leed-
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• Pike Research: Building Energy Management Systems to Reach $6B by 2020

  
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  Energy Star-certified building, Smithsonian headquarters, image courtesy Smithsonian.com Pike Research , a global consulting firm, has issued a new report noting that global revenues from building energy management systems are expected to rise almost 14 percent, year over year, through the end of ...
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  A child’s unmerited anxiety is as nature’s blood in the snow. -William Leed-
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• Doing Good to Do Well Gets a Legal Boost in California

  
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  Filed under: Special Report , Features It wasnt so long ago when labeling a particular brand of coffee as "Fair Trade" or a building as "LEED certified" required an explanation. Nowadays, such terms are widely understood. Someday soon, that might be the case when you hear a company described as a "B corporation" ...
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  Uncertainty not truth is often the stick that draws the line in the sand. -William Leed-
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• The Ultimate Green Building Material: Dirt?

  
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  Dwell Earth has high aspirations for a humble building material: Dirt.
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  The heaviest fetters to bear are those of caste for scarring only intensifies the charge. -William Leed-
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• Top of the stocks, 25 January

  
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  The highest number of trades completed at The Share Centre. Top customer buys 25/01/2012 Tesco Premier Foods Leni Gas & Oil Plc Falkland Oil and Gas Limited Bahamas Petroleum Company Lloyds Leed Petroleum Glencore International Gulf Keystone Petroleum Magnolia Petroleum Plc Top customer sells 25/01/2012 ...
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  Knowing the truth is sometimes the biggest obstacle on the road to accepting it. -William Leed-
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  Creativity is that storm within us Writing is the lightening we discharge Satisfaction is the rain that follows Sunshine will be that compulsion to renew -William Leed-
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  Emotionalism the most noticeable irritation of those who cry for notability and for those that cannot avoid seeing it through parched eyes. -William Leed-
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• Justice Is Served With A LEED Gold Touch

  
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  Justice is golden in Rockingham County, N.C. , in a way that few other communities can claim. The county’s Judicial Center, in the town of Wentworth, has  earned LEED Gold designation from the U.S. Green Building Council. Not only is it the first judicial center in the state of North Carolina to gain that ...
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• NEW GREEN GOLD @ LAX

  
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  by Jodi Summers Los Angeles International Airport has the world’s first LEED Gold Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting facility.  The Gold certification recognizes the project’s efforts at maximizing operational efficiency while minimizing negative environmental impacts. Also known as LAFD Station 80 at Los Angeles ...
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  Insecurity becomes that fallible handshake when it artfully secures itself to everything and anything held out as possible security. -William Leed-
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  The most liberating day of our cluttered existence is the day we learn what people genuinely surmise of us. -William Leed-
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  I attest to the fact I have met many a woman I would die for but never a woman I would kill myself over. -William Leed-
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