News and Insights

Is this the year you’ve committed to boosting your social media presence and staying better connected with prospects and past clients? 

Consider building your client communications around the challenges people are dealing with as they face more months at home because of the pandemic. 

Home health, comfort, energy efficiency upgrades, and design topics are all fair game.

When Christopher Matos-Rogers started thinking about creating a web presence for his green homes niche last year, authenticity was his guiding word. 
 
He wanted a site that highlighted his expertise and reflected his personal and professional passions and interests. Several years ago, he developed a website focused on mid-century modern (MCM) houses, one of his other business niches. 

Jodi Bakst CRS, GREEN, SRES®, CIPS, CLHMS, ABR®, GRI entered the real estate industry after a 15-year career in environmental management and economic development. 
 
Now the broker/owner of Real Estate Experts in Chapel Hill, NC, Bakst is relying on both her real estate and environmental skills to develop Array, a net-zero energy community in Orange County, NC. 

If you’re curious about where your city stands on its progress in addressing climate change, check out the 2020 City Clean Energy Scorecard. 

It’s the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) annual report that analyzes the progress 100 major U.S. cities have made on issues like making buildings and transportation more energy efficient and adopting renewable energy. 

Here’s our annual year-end round-up of interesting stories and podcasts that you may have missed this year.  

There’s no theme or order, just a handful of reads to get you thinking about things like tree equity, the look of post-pandemic cities, and the link between ventilation and COVID-19.