REALTORS® Going Green
Supporting ‘Green’ has become a keen interest for Alberta REALTORS® as a way to help home buyers to identify environmentally-friendly properties and home sellers to environmentally enhance their property prior to sale.
Supporting ‘Green’ is also one way REALTORS® can uphold the quality of life principle, ‘preserving our environment’.
Click here to learn more about REALTORS® in Crowsnest Pass working for local wilderness sustainability.
Green-Speak 101
In 2009, AREA worked with the Green Calgary Association to develop a workshop to build REALTOR® knowledge about healthy living environments and energy efficiency. ‘Green Speak 101’ was delivered to REALTORS® in six major centres across Alberta, with support from the Alberta Real Estate Foundation.
Click here to download a copy of the guide developed by Green Calgary in association with AREA, 'Your New Home: A Guide to Healthy Living & Environmental Cost Savings.’
Sustainability at Home: A Toolkit is an Alberta-focused room-by-room guide to more effective environmental action around your home. The guide is produced by The Natural Step Canada.
Green REALTOR®
As more Canadians increase their green knowledge, Alberta REALTORS® recognize the value of sharing the wealth of environmental information:
Soon, you will begin to see Alberta REALTORS® who have earned a Green Designation.
The Green Designation gives REALTORS® comprehensive knowledge about green real estate principles from the concepts of sustainability, New Urbanism, and smart growth to the application of industry ratings and evaluation standards in real estate to how to explain to consumers what makes a home, building, or property green, how to list and market green properties and how to implement green practices on the road and in the office.