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If it happens it the forest, does LCA see it?

The following is a guest post by Jason Grant, Sierra Club Forest Certification & Green Building Team As some of us make the annual migration to Greenbuild, challenges to the progress of the green building movement abound. The chemical, plastics and conventional timber industries continue their aggression against LEED, the system of the US Green Building Council, […]

Wrong Direction: North Carolina Bill Would Ban LEED Green Building Standard

The controversial, industry-sponsored logging certification scheme known as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has been making news lately, and it’s been a bit ugly. First, SFI is facing a formal complaint of greenwashing to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), more on this below. And second, its advocates have been drawing anger from businesses and citizens […]