Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, Vermont was featured in the New York Times Fall 2009 Design Magazine. Yestermorrow offers over 150 hands-on courses per year in design, construction, woodworking, and architectural craft and offers a variety of courses concentrating in sustainable design.

Builders covet LEED certification — it stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — as a way to gain tax credits, attract tenants, charge premium rents and project an image of environmental responsibility. But the gap between design and construction, which LEED certifies, and how some buildings actually perform led the program last week to announce that it would begin collecting information about energy use from all the buildings it certifies. (NYTimes, August 31, 2009)

Read the entire New York Times article here.

The Shocking (Old) Truth About LEED (read the Jetson Green article as well)