Via our friends at Curbed LA, Los Angeles is the national leader in green development, ownership, and occupancy. While our friends around the country in cities like New York and Chicago have often enjoyed good press about their laudable green building efforts, we have more than twice as many green projects as New York and more than four times more than Chicago. This underscores that our early leadership (or LEEDership, as the case may be) is yielding results and helping lay a foundation in the public and private sector for buildings that will help us live more sustainably in Los Angeles. Considering that less than two years ago, we were seen as lagging but quickly catching up with our peer cities, this is great news for our city.
Older links on green building in LA:
- City Unveils Green Building Proposal (press release)
- LA Planning Commission Approves Ambitious Green Building Plan (Los Angeles Times)
- A New Green Era of Building in Los Angeles (CD13 Blog)
- Officials Add Incentives for Environmental Construction (LA Business Journal)
- Habitat for Humanity Jimmy Carter Work Project in LA Goes Green (Habitat for Humanity)
- MTV's Real World Goes Green (Green Girls Global)
- Silver Lake Library Strives for LEED Gold (CD13 Blog)
- Leading the Way on LEED (CD13 Blog)
- Produce Green Buildings (CD13 Blog)
- Going Private: LA and SF Race to Make Private Buildings LEED Compliant (The Architect's Newspaper)
- Los Angeles Sets Green Standard for Urban Living (interview in Verde Xchange)
- First LEED Platinum Home Built (KNBC)
- Building Green with Los Angeles: Enterprise and the City Award Grants to Developers (Enterprise) (also detailed here)
- UCLA Student Wins Bond Companies’ University Challenge Green-Building Grand Prize (press release)