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"Thanks to a childhood spent on an organic farm in Wisconsin, sustainability has been 'baked into me' from a young age, says Sammi Cook-Kuehn REALTOR®, Property Manager & Solar Home Expert at the Dreamteam of National Realty Guild.  

She lives and works in Minnesota’s Twin Cities metro area and practices real estate in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. 

The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) 2020 Sustainability Summit in July had all the ingredients to make committed green real estate professionals swoon: geeky green data, research showing the inroads that sustainability is making, and case studies illustrating sustainability principles being applied in real-world situations. 
 

Rob Madden and Jeannette Moore have been named this year's EverGreen Award winners! 

2020 is the twelfth year that the Green REsource Council has recognized members who have taken extraordinary measures to advance green building, develop their skills, and use their green know-how to better their communities and the real estate industry. 

If you’ve spent your pandemic downtime identifying new avenues of business and plan to pursue home builders, "review the 2020 Green Single Family and Multifamily Homes SmartMarket Brief." 

The report, conducted by Dodge Data & Analytics, in partnership with the National Association of Homebuilders, looks at the green building market, the high-performance features that builders and remodelers are including, and the features buyers will pay extra for. 

Craig Foley has become one of the green housing industry’s leading voices. 

The 2013 EverGreen Award winner is past chair of the Sustainability Advisory Group for the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), and NAR President Vince Malta invited him to chair a Presidential Advisory Group and develop a 2030 Sustainability Action Plan for NAR. He’s also the Chief Sustainability Officer for Chelmsford, MA-based LAER Realty Partners.