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The Inflation Reduction Act makes $9 billion in rebates available for homeowners in support of energy-efficiency home improvements. With up to $14,000 in rebates available per household, it's time to spread the word on some of the IRA’s provisions that will reverberate for years to come in our residential built environment.

 
Though the Phoenix metro area features a robust green community and numerous NAR Green Designees working in the market, that wasn't always the case. 
 
Jan Green, a 2022 EverGreen Award winner, remembers a time when little was happening in the green housing arena there. 

Trees make communities more healthy, beautiful, livable, and sustainable and ease climate change. 

Through a new tree-planting initiative, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) will contribute to bringing such benefits to the planet.

Bruce Richardson, Sr. is known around his Richmond, VA, market as "The Green Guy."
 
That's by design. 
 
Wherever he goes, including on his morning walks and running errands, he wears a nametag that broadcasts that he's a REALTOR® with the NAR Green Designation.

Betsy Littrell, a REALTOR® with Village Real Estate, Nashville, TN, can walk into a house with clients and quickly read the space, envisioning design changes, ways to add value, how to lighten the building's environmental load, and what local building codes could affect a homeowner's renovation options.