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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. 

 
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.