What is LEED?
'''Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design''' ('''LEED''') is a certification program for the design,<ref name=CaGBC>{{cite web|title=Going Green with LEED|url=http://www.cagbc.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Programs/LEED/GoingGreenwithLEED/default.htm|publisher=Canada Green Building Council|accessdate=1 May 2014|archive-date=16 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416100633/http://www.cagbc.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Programs/LEED/GoingGreenwithLEED/default.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[construction]] and operation of high performance green buildings since 2002. This mark of excellence is known across the world and there are four levels of excellence. There are 100 possible base points distributed across five major credit categories: Sustainable Sites, [[Water]] [[Efficiency]], [[Energy]] and [[Atmosphere]], [[Materials]] and Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality, plus an additional six points for Innovation in [[Design]] and an additional four points for Regional Priority. [[Buildings]] can qualify for four levels of certification. [[File:ATC Inveresk Tasmania 2010.jpg|thumbnail|right|A LEED construction]] LEED is not a standard but an evaluation grid.<ref name=NRDC>{{cite web|title=LEED for Neighborhood Development: A Citizen's Guide to LEED for Neighborhood Developmen|url=http://www.nrdc.org/cities/smartgrowth/leed.asp|publisher=National Resources Defence Council|accessdate=30 April 2014}}</ref> LEED is a way to think up and realise art projects in a durable way. LEED only applies to buildings and not to products.<ref name=NRDC /> It is not a prize but a certification that is delivered by the CaGBC (Canada Green Building Consil). They are the ones who will make sure that all the points are well applied and respected. So, LEED is a grid that helps us obtain a maximum gain of money, health conditions and restrictions on [[earth]] [[pollution]]. If there is a house to build in Canada, we must do the excavation and that earth is usually brought to a landfill. But, if you want to sta