Scott Horst

Chair, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Steering Committee

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Green Building consultant and Chair of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Steering Committee, a rating system, created by the US Green Building Council to rate energy efficiency in buildings

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For several years the battle to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases has focused on the automobile. Hummers became public enemies and the Prius was suddenly chic.

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