So, a friend who kills immense amounts of time at work by reading online magazines forwarded me this article, It’s Way Too Easy Being Green (Slate) about all the ways that architects (and design teams, in general) have found to circumvent the principles of LEED certification for buildings and attain the “green stamp of approval” for buildings that are, fairly obviously, not intended to be any greener than necessitated by the checklist points.
The part that really struck home was the bike racks. I kid you not, the bike racks come up all the time as the picture-perfect loophole in LEED. I could go on for hours… but it really boils down to the fact that people see it as a marketing opportunity and will go to only the minimum lengths necessary to maximize the added value to their product. Is anyone else familiar with LEED? Any opinions how we (as a global society) can take the capitalist aspect out of ideas like this (or at least reduce the influence)?
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