According to the US Green Building Council (USGBC), green building involves “the planning, design, construction, and operations of buildings with several central, foremost considerations: energy use, water use, indoor environmental quality, material section and the building’s effects on its site.” Despite those advances in green building, not everyone is a supporter of bureaucratic, point-based systems. Steve Mouzon is an architect, author, blogger, and LEED-AP. His blog post, titled The Anti-LEED—A Fast, Friendly, and Free Green Rating System, outlines his idea for an alternative. “Green building solutions that work for the wealthy almost certainly won’t work for the poor, and vice versa,” he states.
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