Tag Archives: Green Design

Just finished session 1 of six weeks of 2 hour webinars for LEED Green Associate Training.  It was sort of a fast decision, but it seems I am on the path towards becoming a Green Associate and getting to add a title to my business card. (That is why we are doing it right? the guy with the most acronyms on his business card wins?) F.Y.I.  USGBC: United States Green Building Council, LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Anyway, fun facts for the sustainably ignorant:

1. Currently there are more Green prisons in the U.S. than schools.*

2. In the U.S. there have been ~30,000 applications for LEED registration, only about 7,300 have reached certification.*

3. On average, each American citizen creates as much carbon dioxide annually as the entire country of Botswana.*

*These facts were taken from scribbled notes based on a verbal presentation and likely contain a high quantity of incorrect or obscure information and should under no circumstances be taken for fact or cited in any manner of reference document.  Further, I can neither provide sources or documentation for the gathering of this information.  Reader takes upon himself the risk of unintentionally committing to memory these, or any other, less-than-verifiable facts discussed within the pages of these chronicles. Raise your hand if you tried to read this fine print as fast as the man on the radio.