Earn Your Green Certification / Designation

“Sustainable living challenges us to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
~LGLS Certified Instructor

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Live Green, Live Smart® Institute

The Live Green, Live Smart / Certified Professional (CP) designation is a certification that is earned by a select few Real Estate professionals.  The certification tells you that your CP Broker, Agent or in Canada, your Sales Person, understands green terminology, green building certification programs such as LEED®, have an understand of green building sciences and are knowledgeable about the state of the ecosystem. In addition they can direct you depending on where you are toward upward of tens of thousand of dollars in special green tax credits, incentive and rebates.

The Live Green, Live Smart Certified Professional has taken classes designed by green building science leaders.  They are your first step toward buying and selling green Real Estate.

A Green Certification for Real Estate Professional from the Industry Leaders.

The CP training was designed by the first organization to receive a LEED Platinum award for a remodel; it also had the highest number of LEED points ever given any LEED For Home ® project.
The program’s Executive Director, Peter Lytle (link to message from the founder), a former teacher and co-founder of a nationwide tutoring franchise, was also the head of pilot projects for Energy Star®, LEED for Homes® and Minnesota GreenStar® and is the founder of Live Green, Live Smart a socially responsible business®. 

Live Green, Live Smart (link to the LGLS about us page) is an organization located in Wayzata, Minnesota that focuses on primary research and education in sustainable construction. Our training is done in conjunction with CSP a professional organization focused on training systems for the Real Estate Industry.

As a CP you receive the following:

• A green credentialed, Real Estate designation, only for licensed Real Estate Brokers, Agents, Sales People
• A comprehensive green Real Estate training program
• You are networked with other Brokers, Agents and Sales People throughout North America
• You have access to free green content for a your website, newsletters and e-mail programs
• You have green audit materials for use with your clients
• You receive logos, marketing materials and updates

“Sixty percent of our individual environmental footprint is related to our houses and the way we live in and operate them. This is a huge statistic – bigger even than our transportation footprint.”