Thursday, December 17, 2009

Apparently when it comes to clean air LEED's certification is a farce

It makes you wonder who is behind LEED's certification, cigarette companies?

If you have one smoker in your building then your building is not smoke-free. No ventilation system or air cleaner can possibly take the cancer away.

LEED persists in the following hogwash:


Sure changes my forced mind (WorkForce1 changed their unstimulated training offerings to one that includes LEED's certification (darn it)). Funny how there aren't any jobs for it. I submitted my Information Technology grant and it was rejected as there are no jobs other than the required want ads I submitted.  Then I submitted the grant for Sustainability training (a property management program that supports Leed certification).  WorkForce1 has now pulled this training offer off the list. Currently  I have added two new certifications to my resume using my own powers.  I am finishing another as I write. I mean to have a job with or without you New York State.

What a piece of work. I obviously am not about to support or learn about any program that promotes smoking in residential buildings. Five long years I have suffered, two years in a civil court that is bereft of any integrity.  I understand that the defendant is always protected but to be presented with bonified evidence of the second hand smoke and say that proves nothing is a bit too much.  Such a statement about proof is empty.

I live in a city that is not smoke-free though it tells the world it is. I'm living in this loser townhouse. In the past three months the landlord has knowingly moved in two more smokers. I only get really sick when these people smoke. All of my belongings smell like cigarette smoke. Besides being addicts, one smoker plays with his band 1am-5am weekdays, another breaks into their apartment at 2am because they can't find their key and the other smokes in his garden right outside his back door right below where I live and his next door neighbor barbq's right under my window.

No right to smoke in a residential apartment house exists in any law or lease. I've got the most illegal lease there is, 28 pages long and it mentions not one word about smoking. If smoke trespasses into a neighbor's apartment (there are five smokers doing so in mine) then well cough up the rent and hospital bills and pain and suffering. This townhouse management hasn't been able to get their ass off the ground to even fix the toilet that has never worked (that's seven months).   They now admit what they denied when I first moved in that there are bedbugs and that they have instantly removed them.  As long as the landlord makes any effort New York City health department will not move, such moving never results in any action anyway.