LEED certified buildings in Cincinnati

Today, I visited my first LEED-certfiied building, Keystone Parke http://www.keystoneparke.com/ on Dana Ave.  LEED stands for "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design", and is an international standard in making buildings as green.  Once we pass climate change legislation in the US, and after the climate change treaty that emerges form Copenhagen (COP15) next month, MANY more buildings will be built with LEED certification in mind, as well as even more being retrofitted to LEED.

The Cincinnnati chapter of the US Green Building Council http://www.usgbc-cincinnati.org/ is well poised to capitalize on this coming green revolution as seen in the stats below from their website:

-  The Cincinnati area is home to more LEED projects than any city in Ohio
-  The Cincinnati area is home to more LEED AP's per capita than Chicago, and has the fourth largest number of LEED AP's in the Midwest
-  Cincinnati has more LEED registered schools than any other city in the state; Ohio has more LEED registered schools that California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, and Florida combined. Twenty percent of all LEED schools projects are in Ohio

-  The Cincinnati Regional Chapter is the largest in Ohio and surrounding states
-  It has spread green building education to more than half a million people through media and direct contact
-  Chapter leaders have advocated for green building policy with the Governor's and Cincinnati Mayor's offices
-  The chapter has forged an award-winning partnership with Cincinnati State to provide a sustainable building curriculum for professionals