Photo by ElvertBarnes

We’re not a very tolerant city, but we do have a lot of green buildings.

Today the U.S. Green Building Council released its ranking for the top 10 states for LEED-certified commercial and institutional green buildings per capita, and the District came out on top. According to the rankings, the District has 31.50 square feet of LEED-certified space per person, far above second-place Colorado, which came in at 2.74 square feet.

California led the the nation in sheer amount of green building space, with over 70 million square feet, but its per capita square footage put it eighth nationally. In total square footage dedicated to the environmentally friendly construction, D.C. came in at close to 19 million, which still put it fifth nationally.

Virginia and Maryland ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, in terms of square feet per capita, and when added to the District, accounted for 47 million square feet of LEED-certified construction. (The full rankings are here.)

The first building to receive LEED certification in the District was the headquarters of the National Association of Realtors on New Jersey Avenue NW (it was certified in 2006), while the U.S. Green Building Council points to the Treasury Building as one of the most significant LEED-certified projects in the U.S. in 2011.