Exposing the LEED EcoScam, The Climate Hoax, Playing with a Marked Deck!

Falsified and fictitious figures are used along with Government extortion to force support for supposed Energy Efficient "LEED" Buildings. There is no added Return on Investment nor added value to the extravagant costs forced on builders and investors who are enticed, duped or forced to develop LEED Certified Buildings. m/r

Exposing the LEED EcoScam

By Daniel Greenfield from November 1, 2012 

If you happen to pass an extraordinarily ugly new building that looks like a Lucite cube gave birth to an even uglier Lucite cube, the odds will be very good that it will be an LEED Green building. What does that four letter word mean? Nothing. Or it means that money changed hands… which is the core of all environmental activism.

LEED’s growth has been driven partly by the building council itself, a 13,000-member non-profit chiefly run by architects, builders and building suppliers. Many specialize in — and profit from — the type of design the council certifies and promotes. The council collects up to $35,000 in fees for each LEED certification.
The most popular LEED option — earned in 99.7% of the buildings — has no direct environmental benefit but generates millions of dollars for the building council by giving one point if a design team has a LEED expert. People become experts by passing a LEED course and paying $550 to $800 to a non-profit that the building council created in 2007.
The building council gets 5% of those fees — $3.3 million from 2008 through 2010, council tax records show. The council rewards the inclusion of LEED experts to encourage building designers to learn about LEED.

But the news gets even better still, as it always does, because the biggest side of the Ecoscam is on the Gov side.

More than 200 states, cities and federal agencies now require LEED certification for new public buildings, even though they have done little independent and meaningful research into LEED’s effectiveness. LEED can add millions to construction costs while promising to cut utility bills and other expenses.

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