GreenTowns.com Celebrates
NAR Green Designees

The mission of GreenTowns.com is to support and connect the efforts of people building sustainable local communities. The National Association of Realtors Green Designee program has identified thousands of local realtors, each an expert in their community and in green practices. GreenTowns has therefore launched the following free program to promote NAR Green Designees and share their knowledge with the community. Here are three ways you can participate:

Level 1 - Post your name, picture and bio to the GreenTowns homepage for your town:

Click here to put in basic info about you and your background, including your expertise and Green Designee status, and check the box to be included on your town homepage. (Appearing on the GreenTowns homepage for your community will certify to future visitors that you care about sustainability and want to connect with others of similar interest. Your bio can also include the url of your business website.)

Level 2 - Show your expertise, on "How Green is Your Town?"

Give your community and prospective homebuyers insights by participating in "How Green is Your Town?", a joint effort of GreenTowns with Readers Digest and AmericanTowns.com. Click here to input your zip code or town name; then scroll down your town page to answer the questions you wish to about local sustainability. (By providing these answers, you will highlight your expertise and concern, and give visibility to your brand.)

Level 3 - Be Featured as a Local Green Expert

Local Green Experts are certified experts who also use GreenTowns to connect their community around a shared concern for sustainability. By completing Level 1 and 2, and sharing GreenTowns and its efforts with others through Facebook, Twitter, email or otherwise, NAR Green Designees can spread the word about both GreenTowns.com and their engagement with sustainability. You will also then be:

featured in a new resources section including "Local Green Experts",
allowed to post articles or announcements about local green efforts to GreenTowns and to AmericanTowns.com, and
authorized to recommend other local business owners for free promotion as supporters of local sustainability on their town homepage.
empowered to nominate "local green heroes" to the "Power of One" program, created by AmericanTowns.com and Readers Digest. (Heroes are recognized on the "Power of One" site and on AmericanTowns, and will be considered for inclusion in the Readers Digest magazine.)

Apply to be listed as a local Green Expert by emailing Daphne Dixon here, once you have established your presence on the page in Level 1 and 2 above.

Each of these free promotional programs is designed to take minimal time, while placing you as an NAR Green Designee at the center of connecting your community around sustainability initiatives. GreenTowns provides the technology framework, tools and opportunities for SEO/traffic, but you are the connector building a community around sustainability.