• The U.S. Green Building Council has a global vision for inculcating LEED as a way to construct buildings with the lowest environmental impacts and the greatest efficiency.
• Chief Operating Officer Manhesh Ramanujam says the organization "must re-invent USGBC in the context of the global landscape. There are new destinations ripe with green building potential, and emerging markets from Berlin to Budapest"
• In July, the USGBC leadership went to China, where Ramanujam says LEED has already taken root and is growing organically because of its popularity among developers.

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“Invent because you must.” Tom Sachs’ adage is a fitting mantra for our International vision for LEED. ...