Comments for Pentagon Isn't Abandoning LEED After All at http://www.ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.ecogeek.org Sun, 19 May 2013 03:08:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.ecogeek.org/architecture/3735-pentagon-isnt-abandoning-leed-after-all#comment-46304 Ashrae 189.1 is actually more stringent than LEED and would be more difficult to acheive. Not that it's a bad thing, just funny that congress yet again doesn't know what they are talking about. - Freeflydude Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:16:38 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/architecture/3735-pentagon-isnt-abandoning-leed-after-all#comment-46274 I will grant that I am NOT an expert on LEED and the intricacies of that world. What I am an expert on is the intricacies of politics and political opinion and the use of the Armed Services as a political football to advice certain ideas. There is a certain class of politician (and I would put Robert Wicker in this class) that are opposed to any and all "green" ideas. He can wrap it up anyway he wants to as "protecting MS timber products" (which as a producer let me state he is doing a piss poor job), but what this is truly about is trying to gut LEED, cut it off from a major source of funding, and hopefully make it go away so that we can go back to the bad old days where we weren't concerned about the environmental impact of the buildings that we constructed. Also, don't forget that the Oil and Gas industry has a much larger impact in the state of MS than the timber industry. And in some cases (Koch Brothers, who now own Georgia Pacific) are one and the same. - Carter McNeese Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:18:05 +0100