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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. 

 
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.

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.