How can you become a "green" expert?

Question

I have a friend who has a pretty successful personal assistant business, where she manages people homes, whether it be moving them or handling and supervising overall upkeep of clients homes. I suggested to her that she should become a green consultant and add the service of going in and making people's home more eco-friendly. I think it'd be great for her business. How does one go about doing that? What and/or where can one go to learn about making home more green? Does one need a certification for that? If so, how do you go about getting it?

Thanks for all your help!

Answer 1

A lot of research and it helps and (forgive me if it sounds rude) Practice what you preach. I have found more knowledge of living eco-friendly or greener if you must, by trying different suggestions and ideas. but if it's simply knowledge, research it and find out as much as you can. Also different things apply to different families which could pose a challenge but she sounds like she could handle the job.

Answer 2

Hello Ilomais

Be Green Expert in life is Good and your are indirectly helping this Earth.

Please do simple System in your house & Work Place.

1. First keep your House Neat & Clean.

2.Remove all unwanted items like old cycle/Broken items like suitcase/Tyre/computor/themocool/Paper/B... items and send all the items for Recycle.

3.Bring Platns like Rose/Crotons/Sapalings etc and keep inside house. If you are living Independent House you can plant the above items in Garden.Money Plant Creeper is best for your House it will brings Blessings from God and Wishes from Natural God.

4.Declare your House as PLASTIC FREE/SMOKKING FREE/TABACCO FREE.

5. Daily keep some Flowers/Leaves/Archid or whatever available easily/Economically in your City/ Country in your Reception Hall.

6.Keep some Leaves of Fragrance in Hall/Bed Room.In India there are so many Leaves which give Fragrance  like Tulsi/Damuru/Neem/Pineapple leaves/Lemon Leaves etc.

7. Keep one Big Bowel of Glass or Stainless Steel and fill up water and float Flowers/Leaves in that. It look Likes colourful and it will stand for 5 or 6 days. Again Change the water and keep Flowers/leaves and go on keep this in your House.

8. Decorate with Entrace of your house. Make any Drawings like Pool/Sea/river/Animals/Birds( whatever you like you can Draw) and keep Flowers/Leaves in that. All neighbour will come to you and they will appriciate you.

9.Keep your Kitchen Very Neat & Clean. Always use Fress  Vegitables/Fruits. Please note if you bring Tinned food, it is not good for Health. Also your house will become Godown for Tin/Plastic Bags/Cans.

10. Use Red/Green/Yellow/Blue/Orange/Pink Colour for decoration of Flowers/Leaves. This colours are LOOK AT COLOURS.

IF YOU DO SO. DAILY ALL THE PERSONS WILL COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND SEE YOUR DECORATION AND YOU WILL BLESSING OF GODS AND THIS PEOPLE.

Answer 3

Hi

This is what I do for a living I own A Green Home consulting.  You can contact me for more info privately if you would like. As for your answer. This requires a lot of study to weed out the woo woo junk from the real science. I have been working in this field for 35 years and it changes constantly. I would suggest Environmental sciences and or refer these people to some one like me and chage a small fee for that service as a sub contractor. Otherwise she will need to be a quick study and read reames of information there are a few organizations that are really great and some really nice web sites. However most are pushing there own thing rather than telling people what cleaning products and compounds they can make at home and real changes to thier environment. I work with fuels, building products, cleaning products, organics, beauty, and really all things green. Whe might pick a few things to start with such as interior design products. or Fuel effieciency. If she is succesful already then I would suggest growing her business by offering this service as I stated above. I recently started offering my services to the general public and have found interest but not a huge amount of people calling me so If any of you have any ideas on how to promote this more let me know.

Answer 4

Truthfully, I'm not sure there is a certificate she could get. Check with local universities or colleges, and see if they have a program like that.

I think you have a good idea there.

If she just did a lot of research about alternatives, or maybe spoke to some businesses which specialize in that sort of thing (insulated windows, solar panels, solar domestic hot water, etc) she's be way ahead. Tell her to be careful with those vendors, though, too many of them are new. Check with the BBB, etc. Actually, check with the BBB about the first question, too. They may have a program like you are describing...or they may know how to put one together.

Good luck.

Answer 5

It's awesome that you and your friend want to move into a greener life style. Education is the key to offering a successful green consulting service. There are many free online resources to accumulate the needed knowledge. I also suggest some hands on learning as well. I offer an on-site workshop on a 100%  Off the Grid / Alternative Energy / Green run Ranch to help people make the green conversion. I charge nothing for it, it's just a way to educate the people on eco friendly living. For more info check http://www.agua-luna.com/

I also offer many guides on various How to DIY Green projects at http://www.agua-luna.com/guides.html

Hope this helped, I wish you and your friend all the luck,

Dan Martin

Retired Boeing Engineer now living 100% Off-the-Grid with my family, using Alternative Energy & loving every minute.

for more info visit www.agua-luna.com