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<h1><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'>From Yale’s Environment 360:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>LEED
Building Standards Fail to Protect Human Health<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h2><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>LEED
certification has emerged as the green standard of approval for new buildings
in the United States. But the criteria used for determining the ratings largely
ignore factors relating to human health, particularly the use of potentially
toxic building materials.</span></em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=author>by John Wargo</span><br>
<br>
The LEED program — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design —
is playing an increasingly important role in the drive to make buildings in the
United States greener and more energy efficient. LEED is now the most prominent
and widely adopted green building certification program in the country, with
architects and developers striving to earn LEED’s coveted platinum or gold
rating, and an increasing number of local, state, and federal regulations
beginning to incorporate LEED standards into official building codes.<br>
<br>
But LEED — sponsored by the <a href="http://www.usgbc.org/"
target="_blank" title="">U.S. Green Building Council</a>, an industry group
— has a glaring and little-known drawback: It places scant emphasis on
factors relating to human health, even as the largely unregulated use of
potentially toxic building materials continues to expand. One of LEED’s
major accomplishments — saving energy by making buildings more airtight
— has had the paradoxical effect of more effectively trapping the gases
emitted by the unprecedented number of chemicals used in today’s building
materials and furnishings. Yet, as the threat from indoor air pollution grows,
LEED puts almost no weight on human health factors in deciding whether a
building meets its environmental and social goals.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Myriad Pro","sans-serif"'>More
here ::: <a href="http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2306">http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2306</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";
color:black'>Shauna, OKC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Imagine, innovate,
create, collaborate<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://www.sustainableokc.org"><span style='line-height:150%;color:#365F91;
text-decoration:none'>www.sustainableokc.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://www.transitiontownokc.com"><span style='line-height:150%;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://www.goinglocalokc.com"><span style='line-height:150%;color:#365F91;
text-decoration:none'>www.goinglocalokc.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://thinklady.typepad.com%20/"><span style='line-height:150%;
color:#365F91;text-decoration:none'>http://thinklady.typepad.com /</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;
color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;color:green'>please
don't print this e-mail unless you really need to</span><span style='font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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