News and Insights

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. 

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.