Impacts of LEED Certified Buildings Measured

Wondering what kind of impact LEED certification actually has? Well, GreenerBuildings.com has compiled a report of the benefits from LEED certified buildings. From the story at greenbiz.com:

Green buildings have saved the U.S. billions of gallons of water and enough energy to avoid the equivalent of burning of 1.3 million tons of coal for electricity since the development of the LEED standards.

In the process, these high-performance buildings have produced millions of dollars in employee productivity gains, avoided thousands of tons of soil erosion, and created a multibillion dollar market for the green building materials used in their construction.