Questions Arise Over LEED Certification's Real World Benefits

With everything from ugly suburban mansions to grocery stores to even the Empire State Building going the way of LEED certification, resulting in now more than a billion square feet confirmed as green as it gets, there’s been very little high-profile talk about any negatives arising from the program. Sure, there was the report that showed it’s sometimes hard for companies to keep at the standards once all the eco-warm fuzzies have worn off, and Frank Gehry made some stirs when he belittled the program while visiting here in Chicago (before reversing himself and LEED’ing