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NOTE A REVISION

The European nations said NO to austerity by sending their politicians packing across the board.  The Liberal Party in the UK (same as our Third Way Party) lost seats in government in record numbers because of their affiliation with banks and corporations.  Socialists won in France and Greece with the promise to hold the banks and rich responsible for their massive fraud.  We'll see if they walk the walk....with the people so angry, they may be forced to!

Here in the US, and in Baltimore in particular, I'm attending a meeting given by a group who have been made to believe that B-Corporations are the 'new economy' for labor.  This is an extension of the public/private partnership all the rage in corporate states like Maryland.  The speaker, a nationally known Liberal let us know that progressivism is dying and our old economic system of strong labor unions and a middle-class are on the way out, so handing government over to corporations is our only salvation.
OUR ONLY SALVATION IS ELECTING POLITICIANS WHO VOTE TO TAX THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS AT A HIGH RATE, PROSECUTING AND PENALIZING BANKS FOR MASSIVE FRAUD, AND LEGISLATE STRONG LABOR LAWS PROTECTING WAGES AND WORKER'S RIGHTS. 

DO NOT LET ANYONE TELL YOU IT IS TOO LATE....THAT IS PROPAGANDA!

Senator Raskin of Montgomery County is a lot like Bill Clinton in his charm and appearance of fairness and justice.  But just as Clinton brought us Wall Street gone wild and Free Trade that devastated the unions and middle-class (but he is from a poor family, he knows what the average person needs!), politicians like Raskin who promote public private partnerships and B Corporation non-profit giving are saying to you 'we can't control them so we might as well give them what they want...if we smile and say here's my taxes, do what you will...maybe they'll give us a poverty job'.  NOBODY WANTS THAT AND THE US IS NOWHERE NEAR BEING A PLUTOCRACY...IT WILL BE IF YOU DON'T SHOUT LOUDLY AND STRONGLY AGAINST THESE POLICIES.  Is it a coincidence that Maryland, California, and New York, the three states with the largest income inequality, greatest wealth, and most fraud and corruption are the leaders in this movement?  I think not.

This is how they describe themselves.  Notice the description parallels 'enterprise zones' created by Clinton, and now we see these enterprise zones sucking all tax money while being unaccountable and fraudulent.  It is simply yet another way for corporations to funnel their share of taxes into their own projects:

What is a B Corp?

Certified B Corporations are a new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. 



B Lab, a nonprofit organization, certifies B Corporations, the same way TransFair certifies Fair Trade coffee or USGBC certifies LEED buildings.



B Corps, unlike traditional businesses:

  1. Meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards; 
  2. Meet higher legal accountability standards;
  3. Build business constituency for public policies that support sustainable business. 
There are over 500 Certified B Corporations across 60 different industries. From food and apparel for you and your family to attorneys and office supplies for your business, B Corporations are a diverse community with one unifying goal: to redefine success in business.

Through a company’s public B Impact Report, anyone can access performance data about the social and environmental practices that stand behind their products.

Anyone who deals with environmentalism and justice understand that Fair Trade no longer certifies per its charter...there are often errors in their labelling.  We also know that LEEDS and USGBC are being found TIME AND AGAIN to fraudulently manipulate to the benefit of businesses and owners.  Why does this movement need a separate non-profit oversight organization of this 'do good movement'?  Because government oversight requires transparency and private non-profits require no transparency.  Do you think you will know who gives what and where it goes through these B Corporations?  Will you know the same with ABAG----Baltimore's version of this?  The biggest third party non-profit for oversight and policy -----THE FEDERAL RESERVE ---HOW ARE THEY DOING?

 NO---THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO MOVE WEALTHY MONEY AROUND GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT---A SHELL COMPANY IN YOUR BACKYARD!

We are already fighting for transparency in Baltimore and in Maryland for transparency in Business Tax Credits we all know have much fraud and the government is protecting them from any oversight at all.  YOU THINK THERE WILL BE OVERSIGHT OF B CORP?  I'VE GOT SWAMPLAND IN FLORIDA TO SELL YOU!  Below you see a program started in early 2000 left unchecked until a lawsuit in 2009 exposed problems and in 2012 an admission of complete lack of oversight creates "oversight with teeth".  Think of the above description of B Corporations and their oversight.

(I removed previous article because though the problem was real, the lawsuit was unsound)....my problem is with oversight not the green objective.

Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label
 
By MIREYA NAVARRO Published: August 30, 2009 The Federal Building in downtown Youngstown, Ohio, features an extensive use of natural light to illuminate offices and a white roof to reflect heat. 



It has LEED certification, the country’s most recognized seal of approval for green buildings.

But the building is hardly a model of energy efficiency. According to an environmental assessment last year, it did not score high enough to qualify for the Energy Star label granted by the
Environmental Protection Agency, which ranks buildings after looking at a year’s worth of utility bills.

The building’s cooling system, a major gas guzzler, was one culprit. Another was its design: to get its LEED label, it racked up points for things like native landscaping rather than structural energy-saving features, according to a study by the
General Services Administration, which owns the building.

Builders covet LEED certification — it stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — as a way to gain tax credits, attract tenants, charge premium rents and project an image of environmental responsibility. But the gap between design and construction, which LEED certifies, and how some buildings actually perform led the program last week to announce that it would begin collecting information about energy use from all the buildings it certifies.

Buildings would provide the information voluntarily, said officials with the
United States Green Building Council, the nonprofit organization that administers the LEED program, and the data would be kept confidential. But starting this year, the program also is requiring all newly constructed buildings to provide energy and water bills for the first five years of operation as a condition for certification. The label could be rescinded if the data is not produced, the officials said.

The council’s own research suggests that a quarter of the new buildings that have been certified do not save as much energy as their designs predicted and that most do not track energy consumption once in use. And the program has been under attack from architects, engineers and energy experts who argue that because building performance is not tracked, the certification may be falling short in reducing emissions tied to
global warming.

Some experts have contended that the seal should be withheld until a building proves itself energy efficient, which is the cornerstone of what makes a building green, and that energy-use data from every rated building should be made public.

“The plaque should be installed with removable screws,” said Henry Gifford, an energy consultant in New York City. “Once the plaque is glued on, there’s no incentive to do better.”

Scot Horst, the council’s senior vice president for its certification program, said that any changes in the process would have to be made by consensus to ensure that the building industry would comply. Already, some construction lawyers have said that owners might face additional risk of lawsuits if buildings are found to underperform.

The council is planning several meetings with builders, owners, developers and others around the country in September and October to promote its building performance initiative, which could lead to further revisions in the rating program to ensure buildings reduce energy consumption as much as they can.

Mr. Horst called the issue of performance one of his “absolute priorities.”

“If you’re not reducing carbon, you’re not doing your job,” he said.

The LEED label, developed by the council in 1998 to have a third-party verification of a building’s environmental soundness, certifies new homes, schools and other buildings, as well as existing ones. (The certification for existing buildings is the only one currently tied to energy performance.) Its oldest and largest program, in terms of square footage, is the certification of new commercial and institutional buildings, with 1,946 projects already certified and 15,000 more that have applied for certification. Many other buildings include environmentally friendly features and advertise themselves as “green” but do not seek the LEED label.

The program uses a point system based on a broad checklist of features and buildings can be certified by accumulating points on not just efficient energy use but also water conservation, proximity to public transportation, indoor air quality and use of environment-friendly materials.

Council officials say that these other categories also help reduce energy use and emissions. And many architects and engineers praise the comprehensiveness of the label. But the wide scope of the program, many in the industry point out, also means that buildings have been able to get certified by accumulating most of their points through features like bamboo flooring, while paying little attention to optimizing energy use.

Another problem is that the certification relies on energy models to predict how much energy a planned building will use, but council officials and many experts agree that such models are inexact. Once a building opens, it may use more energy than was predicted by the design. And how a building is used — how many occupants it has, for example — affects its energy consumption.

“If the occupants don’t turn off the lights, the building doesn’t do as well as expected,” said Mark Frankel, technical director for the
New Buildings Institute, which promotes improved energy performance in new commercial construction and conducted the research commissioned by the Green Building Council on LEED buildings.

“In the real world, the mechanical systems may have problems, so that increases energy use,” Mr. Frankel said, adding that keeping track of energy use is rarely a priority for owners.

LEED energy standards have grown more stringent over the years, and construction like the Youngstown federal building, built in 2002, would not be certified under the current version of the program, the G.S.A. study noted. The LEED standard goes through periodic revisions, and this year, the minimum energy requirements needed for the basic LEED certification for new buildings were raised.

But in its own
study last year of 121 new buildings certified through 2006, the Green Building Council found that more than half — 53 percent — did not qualify for the Energy Star label and 15 percent scored below 30 in that program, meaning they used more energy per square foot than at least 70 percent of comparable buildings in the existing national stock.

Anecdotal information from follow-up research to that study indicated that the best-performing buildings had limited window areas and tended to be smaller.

Sometimes, a building’s inhabitants are the first to notice energy-wasting features.

At the Octagon, a LEED-certified residential rental building on Roosevelt Island in New York City, residents like Alan Siegal say that obvious energy savers, like motion sensors in the hallway, are hard to miss.

But Mr. Siegal, 59, a customs service broker, said his three-bedroom apartment has floor-to-ceiling glass windows that offer great views but also strong drafts.

“If there’s a lot of glass, is that going to be efficient?” he asked.

Bruce Becker, whose company Becker and Becker Associates developed and owns the Octagon, said that the windows offer day lighting but conceded that there were plenty of opportunities to become more energy efficient. He said the Octagon would soon switch to a fuel cell system for heat and electricity, partly to cut energy costs at a time of a depressed rental market.

Mr. Horst, the LEED executive, said that LEED may eventually move toward the E.P.A.’s Energy Star model, which attests to energy efficiency only for the year the label was given, similar to restaurant ratings.

“Ultimately, where we want to be is, once you’re performing at a certain level, you continue to be recertified,” Mr. Horst said.

LEED 2012: The USGBC Adds Teeth, Real-Time Reporting To Its Green Building Ratings Responding to criticisms that its ratings can be meaningless and easily gamed, the USGBC is introducing new rules so buildings must continually recertify and measure their energy use against their neighbors.

If you’re paying attention, you no doubt have seen the plaques placed near the doors of major new commercial buildings, announcing an impressive
LEED rating. For building owners, in this real estate cycle and all those that will follow it, a good LEED rating shows that you're thinking about the planet. And for renters, it shows that your landlord is working to reduce costs and make the workplace more healthy. Everyone wins. But what does your skyscraper’s gold or platinum LEED rating really mean?


While LEED ratings have increased in public consciousness (with 1.5 million 6.8 billion square feet of commercial space certified since 2000), there has been way too little transparency about how new buildings with high LEED scores actually perform. So, while the marketing excitement of a platinum rating may score some points, it can hit a dead end under scrutiny. Some engineers, for instance, complained that LEED points were too easy to rack up in an incoherent building: Many cited the fact that a bike rack earned points in a building that might have a faulty boiler. And landlords faced no penalty if they declined make improvements or even use the technology they installed once given a rating by LEED. At its weakest, a LEED certification amounted to a one-time endorsement of a building’s design, with no follow-up.

Now, though, the system is changing--from within--to better reflect how LEED buildings actually save energy and water and how they can improve.

The nonprofit
United States Green Building Council (USGBC), which administers LEED, says its volunteer members want to think of green buildings as assets rather than as checkoffs. The latest version of the building-rating system, called LEED 2012--which will launch in November and the go to USGBC members for a vote in November next summer--takes advantage of new technology and building practices that make real-time energy and water management commercially viable. Sharing this data so that other commercial real estate owners can compare their energy use is now going to be required. “Our goal is to show that real leaders share data,” says Scot Horst, USGBC’s Senior VP for LEED. LEED 2012 will also require owners to recertify every five years. So if you invest in a LEED rating when you open, you’ll have to prove over time that you’re staying current with available energy-saving techniques.

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