LEED

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

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

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.

Renzo Piano's new Academy of Sciences building in San Francisco is bursting with green technology and alive with plants.

A handful of thinkers and architects are pushing past LEED requirements to design buildings that generate more energy than they use.

The new NY Times Building designed by Renzo Piano snubbed LEED certification to find a different path to sustainability. Writer William Bostwick reflects on the LEED checklist and why the system is broken.

The 5-4-7 Arts Center in Greensburg, Kansas gets a LEED platinum designation- evidence that the town, which was 95% destroyed by a tornado in May, 2006, is making good on its sustainable rebuilding plan.

The Waco Chamber of Commerce is credited with inspiring a renaissance in downtown, developing their new headquarters on a former parking lot. They hope to receive LEED certification - the first U.S. chamber building to receive this designation.

Critics worry that cities who require new developments to meet LEED-ND standards will sacrifice affordable housing for sustainability.

A year after a tornado destroyed the city of Greensburg, Kansas, the city and its residents are bounding back in an economically and environmentally sustainable way.

The vast majority of LEED-certified green buildings in the U.S. are located in major cities, leading some to wonder whether there might be an inherent bias in LEED's standards.

A New York developer is unveiling plans for a fleet of luxury homes that aim to comply with LEED environmental standards. But this article from The New York Times wonders whether that really makes the homes green.

The city of San Francisco is considering a proposal to require most new commercial and residential buildings to comply with the green building standard LEED.