As a GREEN Designee, you likely know the difference between a heat pump and a furnace - a furnace heats the home with natural gas, oil, or propane (fossil fuels), and a heat pump uses electricity.
Have you ever been chatting with a colleague or someone at your local real estate association and trying to make a case about the value of sustainability?
The National Association of REALTORS®' course, "Intro to Sustainability and Resiliency: What REALTORS® Need to Know," can be a powerful tool in bolstering your argument and introducing other real estate practitioners to sustainability.
Monica Cuervo considers her NAR Green Designation a tool that helps her introduce families to the benefits of renewable energy and sustainable homes.
She earned the designation earlier this year and then got certified as a solar consultant by Powur University Solar Academy. "I care about the environment and want to positively impact my community by influencing people to adopt clean and sustainable energy," says Cuervo.
It's time to invest in your future and renew your Green REsource Council membership for 2023.
Thanks to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) and its climate provisions, the spotlight is again on green and sustainability principles.
In "The Little House," Virginia Lee Burton tells the story of a little house that
lived an idyllic life in the country and enjoyed nature: the change of seasons, star gazing, and breathing clean air.
But slowly, the house gets engulfed by development and trains, pollution, and noise. It ends up abandoned, broken, and ignored.
