Sustainable Development and the Environment-LEED Certification

“Sustainable Development and the Environment”  Please respond to the following:

·From the first e-Activity, analyze two (2) reasons why a corporation is able to justify its participation in the LEED certification program as responsible environmental management, considering the associated costs. Provide a rationale for your response.

o Here is another look at the LEED program. Consider this video in your response to the first e-Activity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1omg2IjJJw

·From the second e-Activity, examine the most important ways in which the company that you have researched is implementing sustainable development. Evaluate the extent to which the sustainable development program contributes to profitability for the company in question. Provide at least two (2) examples of the profits the company has made to support your response.

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