Our flagship service for homes and apartments is a $99 Green Home Makeover. Would you spend a few hundred dollars to save a few thousand dollars while making the healthiest possible home for your family AND having a positive impact on the environment? Even in tough times, most people answer YES to this question!

What Can I Expect to Do as an Eco-Consultant?
Our Green Home Makeover generally takes from 60-90 minutes. When you walk through a home with our Green Home Makeover Checklist, you can point out immediate changes to be made at no cost while customizing a set of recommendations on how your client can save money, save energy, save water and live a healthier life. The Green Home Makeover concentrates on the interior of the home, though it touches upon yard areas as well. Your client needs to be present and be an active participant in the process. You will review the Green Home Makeover Report towards the end of your visit and discuss with them how to best capitalize on the recommendations. Our Family Action Plan gives you the opportunity to assign specific tasks to each member of the family to involve everyone in reaching the goal of a more sustainable lifestyle. We also offer you Green Irene Guides to various topics and include the valuable Ask Green Irene service. As a local Green Irene you will also be able to refer clients to other qualified green professionals in your area as part of our Sustainable Contractors Network. Our Green Home Makeover Report will also introduce Green Irene recommended products, some of which we offer for sale in person or through an online catalog. You can encourage your clients to consider incorporating these to help in their efforts to green their home and save money.

How Green Products can Earn You Money While Benefiting Your Clients.
Here are just three examples of dozens of money saving green ideas you can sell as part of a 60-90 minute Green Home Makeover. Many of our ideas are actions you can recommend that do not cost a penny. Other changes require a small investment to earn big dividends. As a Green Irene you can do an inventory of wasteful incandescent lighting and show a family how to save $1,000s on their electric bill. You will demonstrate the actual bulbs and see how they look in the home. Green Irene carries the best dimmable CFLs as well as all shapes and sizes of the best Energy Star bulbs available. One client spent an incremental $358 upgrading to 57 CFLs and cold cathodes and is saving $6,300 over the life of the first set of bulbs.

The Green Irene Water Conservation Kit for a two-bathroom home will save up to $8,000 in energy costs over 7 years with an investment of only $133. The energy and water you save in the shower, toilet and faucets makes a big impact on utility bills as well as a positive impact on the environment. You don’t need to spend hours researching the best low flow showerheads (1.59 gallons per minute) that feel like your current wasteful ones. We have already done that on your behalf.

Wondering how much a specific device costs to run each year? Our Kill-A-Watt tool will help your client understand what each appliance or device costs to run each year using your local electricity rate. Your TV, computers, video game consoles and other devices use energy constantly, even when “off.” You will be equipped with tools to measure the cost of this “phantom” energy use and a way to eliminate half of the $200 a year we normally find wasted.

What about some great non-toxic cleaning products? We have them. Help your clients clear their homes of harmful cleaning agents. Our HVAC filters are a giant step ahead of those old fiberglass filters (MERV 1) they currently use. Green Irene offers electrostatic, washable (reusable) filters you never have to buy again as well as MERV 13 filters, a very high filtering level, to take allergens and pollutants out of a home’s air as they pass through the HVAC.

Green Irene’s Support Extends Beyond the Consultation
Included in the price of a Green Home Makeover is a three-month “Ask Green Irene” Membership which gives you and your client access to our extensive green knowledge base. As questions arise on the path to greening your corner of the world, you can always request e-mail support from Green Irene LLC’s staff of green researchers. You don’t have to spend hours researching each new green innovation on the market: we do all that for you and add solutions to our database daily. All you have to do is ask! As a local Green Irene Eco-Consultant, you can help your clients and their families along the path to a greener, healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. If you join us, together we’ll be “Greening Our World, One Home (and Office) at a Time”!

Green Home Makeover Topics Include:

• Energy Conservation
• Energy Efficient Lighting
• Water Conservation
• Water Purity
• Toxic Free Living
• Indoor Air Quality
• Waste Reduction and Recycling
• Shrinking your Family’s Carbon Footprint
• Safety and Emergency Preparedness