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Energy costs are on the rise and shall continue to rise in the future too. A better understanding of ways to improve indoor air quality, energy conservation, lighting efficiency, water conservation, reuse and recycling is required for a greener and healthier environment. This will help in making the atmosphere eco-friendly and will also make households and businesses energy efficient; thereby helping to save the depleting resources.

In order to create eco-friendly buildings and houses, one must possess green certification for building projects, construction processes, etc. The green building environmental certification program brings together consumers and certified building practitioners who have proper knowledge about green building techniques. The objective of a green certification program is to spread awareness in an eco-friendly manner that supports social and economic sustainability. The basic goal of green certification is to:


  • Elevate standards of organizations through energy efficient designs.

  • Enhancing capabilities of professionals and organizations to deliver energy efficient, sustainable building design and development technologies.

  • Consumer health protection through increased public awareness, green knowledge and access to information about design and building practitioners.

  • Enabling public and private sector officials to use Green Certification as a prerequisite or screening device during the contract bidding process.



Today, consumers are becoming more aware about the environmental issues affecting their households, businesses and lifestyles. And therefore they are choosing green consultants, interior designers, architects, and builders to incorporate sustainability into their households and businesses to also reduce energy depletion in the civilization and nature.

Green Certification and training aims to lower overhead costs through reusability, energy conservation and recycling. Adopting green is becoming a necessity as corporations and home builders, retailers, health care institutions, and others are going green for a better working environment. The benefits of green certification are countless including reduced energy dependence, fewer power plants, fresh air, clean water, healthier environment, increased sustainability, improved public health, decreased vulnerability to disasters, etc.

Green education and training makes it crucial to understand sustainable strategies, conservation of energy, air, water, soil and other natural resources so as to implement green strategies in an organization. One can pursue certification courses like certified green designer, certified green specialist and certified IAQ specialist. With these specially tailored green educational programs one can have comprehensive and reliable information regarding indoor air quality, energy conservation, lighting efficiency, water conservation, recycling etc. This allows professionals to make a careful selection of healthy and eco-friendly materials, products and strategies for going green.



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Author, Tina Chaphe is the founder of the National Association of Green Designers and the National Association of Green Specialists. BecomingGreen.Inc. is the training entity for those two associations and was founded and fueled by the desire to have quality green training in the design community. They have newsletters, news articles, Governmental and Regulatory updates, and blogs from leading researchers that will keep members abreast of breakthroughs in the Green industry.

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