The Treehugger's Ivory Tower Gets Plantinum LEED

Yale's high-performance Kroon Hall also pulls off the near-impossible feat of looking at home on a campus with legendary Gothic architecture.

Kroon Hall, the recently completed home of Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has just been awarded a Platinum LEED--the highest designation offered by the U.S. Green Building Council. That's a great-big green feather in the school's cap: While LEED has grown to encompass thousands of buildings, Platinum is still quite rare in...