Since the USGBC discussion fora doesn't get much traffic and to aggregate all the threads on the subject into one central place i'm launching this thread. Ok, I'll even encourage folks getting accredited to discuss study strategies 'round here.

BREEAM is the UK forerunner that inspired LEED, CASBEE is the japanese equivalent with cooler graphics, then there is Greenglobes, and Energystar trying to quantify how green is your project. Title 24 rules California, who also spun off CHPS (and now the USGBC is trying to muscle LEED for Schools onto that turf, but CHPS is free versus paying for the LEED certification). Carbon Calculators are the new rage, while LCA is fading into the background - but does this all make a difference?

CASBEE




take your pick of earlier discussions:

selling green, Net Zero Energy, LEED-AP time allocation, FTE calcs, merits of calling yourself a LEED-AP or AIA, LEED-NC Multiple Building Campus Setting, leed in canada, leed in china, sustainable sites, rapidly renewability, Ipods, pissoirs & chamber pots.

leed for homes & LEED AP at home

tax credits

LEED 3.0

& beyond!

becoming unaccredited, or accredited


LEED exam woes:
1 2, 2.2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9,
10, 11,
passing, passing 2.0 & failure


just don't forget about green thread central too!