Logan is Green – but You Can't Get There

With the Big Dig debacle cutting off the thoroughfares making it easy to get to Logan airport as of late, we've associated the airport with a destination difficult to get to rather than an environmentally friendly spot in the Hub. Logan's Terminal A, which opened to Delta passengers last spring, has just attained LEED certification. The certification elevates it to colleague with Boston structures in the Seaport district and several new and renovated buildings at the local institutions of higher education. The Leadership in Energy and Enviromental Design (or LEED) certification is a federal certification that, surprise, took over a year to grant to the terminal building. Some of the key features include lights that dim when natural light is available (opposite our alarm clock that dims at night), roofing that reflects heat on days like today, glass that keeps heat in during the winter and out during the summer, and men's rooms that have waterless urinals. Waterless urinals may sound a little scary and unsanitary, but they work on gravity keeping the expended urine a blue chemical layer away from the user. It's pretty keen in our experience.

Flickr user CraftyGuy shows us that busing isn't a good way to get to Terminal A - no matter how environmentally friendly it is.