Global Green News
Walker Wells Speaks at Dwell on Design 08
Los Angeles LEEDs the way?
What does a mandated LEED program mean for the City of Los Angeles?
Moderator: Aaron Britt, Dwell Editor With a stroke of Governor Schwarzenegger’s pen Executive Order S-20-04 mandated that all California state-owned construction and renovations comply with LEED Silver standards. Smaller municipalities have taken further steps towards mandating LEED, among them the City of Los Angeles where an ordinance, authored by Council President Eric Garcetti, was just voted into law, calling for all buildings over 100,000 square feet to be LEED certified. Malibu is considering whether to waive certain permit fees if construction meets LEED standards. What does this mean for developers and architects? Does it go too far or not far enough? Can a building be green without the imprimatur of LEED? How far can, and should, the government go in the service of green building? Are incentives preferable to mandates?
Los Angeles city councilman Eric Garcetti, architect Roger Kurath of Design 21 and Walker Wells, Director of the Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Communities Program for Global Green USA take up just that question in a discussion that will address the affordability of citywide green design, the boundaries of government intervention in the private sector, and if it opts to, how precisely the city of Los Angeles ought to go about greening things up.
Sarah Dusseault
Senior Policy Advisor
City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Warren Wagner,AIA
Founder and Principal
W3 Architects
Venice, CA
Walker Wells, AICP LEED AP
Director of the Resource Efficiency
and Sustainable Communities Program
Global Green USA
Santa Monica, CA
