LEED AP

I was, at first, excited about the LEED program. Finally people decided to care about environmental issues. But, as with most regulations, it just adds more bureaucracy and hoops to jump through.

LEED basically sets up a series of points one can get by following environmental guidelines. For example, add bike racks or use only materials manufactured within 500 hundred miles of the project site.

And what is wrong with this? Well, it is what we should be doing in the first place. Have we become so ignorant that we need to be rewarded for doing the right thing? It is like getting a tax break for proving that we come to a complete stop at stop signs.

I am not being cynical, there are a lot of LEED guidelines that should be followed and I am glad we are thinking about such things. My objection is the enforcement of needless rules in society. Doing what is right is not a difficult concept, and one should not expect a reward for it.