The Problems with Green Architecture Go Beyond Anything a LEED Award Can Solve

We think we have a new crush and she goes by the name Cathleen McGuigan. Her piece, “Bad News About Green Architecture,” in the upcoming issue of Newsweek, is a terrific calling out of how much further the green movement, particularly in regard to design, has to go. Granted, this is not particularly new, as we were reporting on the negative co-opting of the term “green” by marketers across the globe, but McGuigan puts a nice spin on it by complaining that just because something takes home some flashy LEED award (we’re