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Careers as a Green Living Coach
Green isn’t just for St. Patrick’s Day anymore.
In fact, green might be the color of the year and even the decade as more people focus
on green products, green efforts and green living to support the environment, reduce
household toxins, and create a better place to live, work and breathe in.
To help more people live greener, brighter, cleaner lives, green living coaches can help
their clients learn how to go green affordably, create sustainable changes, improve the
health and quality of any living or working space, and reduce energy consumption and
costs. Healthy living involves making conscious choices about what to bring into and
what to take out of homes and offices.
Since 42 percent of Americans are willing to spend more for products branded as
organic, environmentally friendly or fair trade and 73 percent consider it important that
companies have good environmental records, according to a Boston Consulting Group
study, green living coaches have a variety of outreach opportunities to help individuals
and businesses recognize that healthy practices go beyond diet and exercise to include
recycling, reducing energy consumption and the carbon footprint, implementing ecodesign and manufacturing, using the safest products and more.
A green living coaching certification can be the perfect complement to a career as a life
coach, nurse, holistic health practitioner, public health educator or environmental
worker. Likewise, green living coaches can help individuals or workplaces improve their
environmental practices; they have the flexibility of working online, over the phone or in
person to help others make green changes for the good.
This cutting-edge career path involves a wealth of opportunities for delivering seminars
and webinars, consulting one-one-one or with a consortium of businesses, creating
instructional materials for sale including CDs, online courses and ebooks, giving talks
and presentations at green living expos and conferences, creating a line of linked green