Karel Rogers, PhD – LEED

Video Transcript:

The acronym, LEED, stands for Leadership in Environment and Energy Design.  It’s a system of things that can be done when areas are developed, buildings are built, that allows the builders, the developers, to choose from lists of various things that reduce the impact on the environment of doing that particular building, and largely to mix and match a whole variety of different techniques that make it so that that building, later, has a much smaller energy footprint, which pays whoever buys it back over time, in terms of lower energy bills.  LEED buildings also protect water resources, which is a very, very important issue for our ability to live in this place over the long term.