Our Buildings Were Built for a Different World | The climate crisis demands that we retrofit them—which won’t happen at scale until architects start seeing themselves as political actors. (www.thenation.com)

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The place I see LEED having a real impact is on commercial and industrial buildings. The people who are going to use the building there have a real financial incentive towards efficiency, the power to actually ask for it, and LEED is an easy way for them to specify it.

[-] terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I agree, it is a good way to get the owners asking for levels of environmentalism that might be out of their expertise, I just wish it had more teeth.

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