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Christina Laney Mitre, REALTOR® ASSOCIATE, GREEN, CRS, SRES®, with Corcoran Pacific Properties, Honolulu, Hawaii, recently expanded her real estate business scope to include green real estate services. 

She works alongside her mother and mentor, Yumi Laney, who has been in the real estate business for 43 years. 

Talk to any veteran NAR Green Designee, and they'll tell you that keeping up to date on industry changes is critical to building and sustaining your green niche. 

That's just what the newly updated GREEN Designation Course: People, Property, Planet, Prosperity helps you do. 

You can talk about various energy efficiency home upgrades, show charts, and statistics proving their efficacy, and discuss the science behind each innovation. 

But there’s nothing like a real-world example to drive the points home. 

That’s what Green Builder Media has done with its new Remodeling Field Report.  

Jen Singley, a practitioner with Keller Williams Philly, developed a passion for the environment and doing business in a socially and environmentally responsible way while working for United By Blue, a sustainable lifestyle brand. 

By developing a culture of sustainability and resilience across the real estate industry, REALTOR® organizations can significantly advance such principles for and among their members. 

As NAR Green Designees, for example, you contribute to such a culture whenever you discuss sustainability with clients, each time you close a transaction featuring sustainable design, and when you promote such concepts at your local board and community events.