As conscious as consumers have become in recent years of the merits of sustainable housing and the drawbacks of having a large carbon footprint, the fact remains that in all of Westchester County today, there are only two LEED-certified residential projects: a two-family market-rate condominium in Hastings-on-Hudson and a 22-unit affordable assisted-living complex in Yonkers.
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By comparison, according to the United States Green Building Council in Washington, which created the certification process and coined the terminology (LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) the village of Cold Spring, in Putnam County to the north of Westchester, has more than 100 LEED-certified units, among them single- and multifamily, market-rate and income-restricted.
Overall state and national numbers remain modest. There are 1,262 certified LEED for Homes units in New York State; 1,658 in New Jersey; 3,043 in California; and a total of 20,000 in the United States, according to the nonprofit council that administers the LEED for Homes program.
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