The system needed to be overhauled so that entire neighborhoods could be certified, not just buildings. Thatâs why NRDC teamed up with the Congress for the New Urbanism and the U.S. Green Building Council to launch LEED for Neighborhood Development, or LEED-ND, in 2010.
Young newly sprouted plants are called seedlings. They are what  grows directly after germination takes place. These plants then  grow into the adult plants.
A seed cannot sprout until water and oxygen. penetrate the seed coat. When water enters a seed, the tissues in the. seed swell, and the seed coat breaks. If enough water and oxygen are. available after the seed coat breaks, the young plant, or seedling, begins to grow. Germination. A plant embryo resumes its growth in a process called .