Why Green Badger Academy?


We offer the most practical training on the market for LEED construction management. Most training is high-level and academic. Green Badger Academy brings pragmatic, actionable guidance based on helping hundreds of project teams earn LEED certification.

  • If this is your first LEED project, you probably feel overwhelmed and confused by LEED requirements.
  • Most companies don't have standardized LEED training programs.
  • With high-turnover, LEED project management best practices can be lost.

The Ultimate Guide to LEED v4 and v4.1 Overview

You'll get practical, real-world guidance on all the LEED construction credits you'll be tasked with if you're on a LEED project.

Course Curriculum


  1. Introduction
  2. History of LEED and USGBC
  3. Why you should opt-in to LEED v4.1
  4. How to opt-in to LEED v4.1
  5. How to Manage LEED
  6. SSp1: Construction Activity Pollution Prevention
  7. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  8. MRc5: Construction Waste Management
  9. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  10. MRc2: Option 1 Environmental Product Declarations
  11. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  12. MRc2: Option 2 Multi-Attribute Optimization
  13. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  14. MRc3: Sourcing of Raw Materials
  15. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  16. MRc4: Option 1 Material Ingredient Reporting
  17. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  18. MRc4: Option 2 Material Ingredient Optimization
  19. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  20. IEQc2: Low Emitting Materials
  21. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  22. IEQc3: Construction Indoor Air Quality Management Plan
  23. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  24. IEQc4: Indoor Air Quality Assessment
  25. LEED Requirements, Actionable Strategies, and Best Practices
  26. Summary: LEED in the Real World
  27. How to manage LEED from site-work to commissioning


I'm Tommy Linstroth, founder and CEO of Green Badger.

I’ve been involved with sustainable design and construction my entire career. I started as Director of Sustainability for a development company, then transitioned into running the consulting firm Trident Sustainability Group, and now as the founder and CEO of Green Badger.

I’m a huge proponent of not only sustainable design, but of the value of transparency and third-party verification. The challenge with these certifications is that the documentation process is a royal pain in the ass. I love LEED certification, but I hate LEED documentation. After pounding my head against the wall too many times and seeing 100 column spreadsheets in my sleep, I knew there had to be a better way, and thus Green Badger was born as a software solution to automate LEED projects.

And now, project teams can get all the LEED education they need with Green Badger Academy!