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About Beth Johnson, REALTOR®

LEED AP, EcoBroker Certified®,
Certified Green Professional™, NAR GREEN

  • I'm proud to be the
    • first REALTOR® on the planet to earn the green credential “Quadruple Crown” of LEED AP, EcoBroker™ Certification®, Certified Green Professional™, and NAR GREEN.
    • first Texas REALTOR® (and only the 13th anywhere) to earn the LEED Accredited Professional credential associated with U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System™, the nationally accepted benchmark for high performance green buildings.
    • first Texas REALTOR® to earn the nationally recognized EcoBroker® Certification that provides training on energy and environmental issues relating to real estate transactions.
    • first North Texas REALTOR® (not directly affiliated with a builder) specializing in green building.
  • My specialty is assisting "green"-leaning home buyers in obtaining the elements they need to buy a new green home (land, architect, builder) or in comparing the energy-efficiency and other "green" features of existing homes on the market.
  • A native North Texan raised in Garland, I’ve lived and worked in the Metroplex for decades.
  • I am a full-time real estate agent and a founder and principal of Smart Green Now Consulting.
  • I am backed by the strength of Keller Williams Realty -- third largest real estate company in North America--and our Preston Road office-- #1 DFW real estate office in home sales:
    • Keller Williams Realty:
      • highest overall satisfaction rankings among home buyers among the largest full-service real estate firms for the second year in a row (J. D. Power and Associates’ 2009 Home Buyer/Seller StudySM)
      •  second-highest overall satisfaction rankings among home sellers among the largest full-service real estate firms (J. D. Power and Associates’ 2009 Home Buyer/Seller StudySM)
      • The only company to boast growth in both number of agents added to its ranks and in total transactions closed. (REAL Trends 500 annual survey, May 2009)
      • Third-largest real estate company in North America
      • 600+ offices, 78,000 associates in U.S. and Canada
      • Founded 1983 in Austin
      • Company belief system: win-win, integrity, customers come first, commitment, communication, creativity, teamwork, trust, success
      • No. 1 selling real estate book for agents in 2008—by Gary Keller, co-founder and chairman of the company (SHIFT: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times)
    • Keller Williams Preston Road office:
      • #1 DFW real estate office in home sales
      • 400 associates
      • Marketing divisions in every real estate field
      • Convenient to Bush Turnpike and North Dallas Tollway
      • We own the multi-story building
      • Large classroom with audio-visual and kitchen service
      • Multiple conference rooms, work spaces, copy centers
  • I have 29 years’ professional experience staffing Texas and national environmental advocacy organizations --
    • lobbying, media work, grassroots organizing and training
    • in Texas, Southern Plains region, and Washington, D.C.
  • I am the first REALTOR® to join U.S. Green Building Council's North TX Chapter. My firm is proud to be one of the few Texas real estate firms that are members of USGBC.
  • A Founding Member and the only REALTOR® to have served as a Director of the Home Builders Association’s Green Built Texas Council, I helped draft the Green Built Texas™ Program, chaired its inaugural year Marketing Subcommittee, and served one of the longest tenures as Director, helping lead the Council in its first 4 years.
  • I served on the MetroTex Association of REALTORS® task force that implemented a major green update to North Texas Multiple Listing Service, Nov.-Dec. ’08.
  • Green building and building science courses completed include the first-ever "Green Building for Building Professionals" course by National Association of Home Builders (NAHB); first Board-offered green building designation course by National Association of REALTORS (NAR); U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) "Technical Review: LEED for New Construction" and “LEED for Homes Workshop”; “Building Science Fundamentals” by Lstiburek and Straube of Building Science Corp.; Energy and Environmental Building Alliance's (EEBA) "Houses That Work"; EcoBroker's courses on energy efficiency, environmental issues, green marketing; Austin Energy's "Green by Design" and "Cool House Tour"; national home performance conferences by NAHB, EEBA, RESNET and Affordable Comfort Inc.; Realtors Land Institute's "Creative Land Planning"; Energy Efficient Green Building Institute's "Residential Building Performance Technician" (3 credit courses), "Secrets of a Texas Net Zero Home" and "Healthy Home" by award-winning builder Jim Sargent, "Green Interiors"; numerous green building and marketing classes and presentations at Home Builders Association (HBA) of Greater Dallas.
  • My firm became the nation’s first real estate agency to show our commitment to energy efficiency by joining Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET), the national organization that sets standards for quality of energy rating services and annually hosts the premier national forum on home energy performance and financing.
  • I have completed the course to obtain Historic House Specialist designation from Preservation Dallas.
  • Arthur Kuehne and I are planning to build our own green home as an educational catalyst illustrating “affordable” greenbuilding in a 2000 sq. ft. home.
  • I am a frequent speaker and media source on residential greenbuilding.

EDUCATION / PERSONAL NOTES

  • B.A. with honors, Texas Tech University, 1976
  • teaching certification at secondary level
  • extensive experience as researcher, author, editor, and proofreader for Texas and national non-profits
  • author, Yukon Wild: The Adventures of Four Women Who Paddled 2,000 Miles through America’s Last Frontier (Berkshire Traveller Press, 1984)
  • In 1982, I led first women’s expedition in muscle-powered craft down Canada’s and Alaska’s Yukon River—a 76-day, 2000-mile canoe trip by four Texas women.
  • I have canoed, kayaked and rafted more than 7,000 miles throughout North America and spent about 400 (including 50 solo) overnights on river trips
  • In 2003, to celebrate my fiftieth birthday, my husband and I drove 13,000 miles round trip to the Arctic Ocean, and I flew with three companions in a bush plane deep into the world’s northernmost major mountain range and canoed for a month above the Arctic Circle on a trip I organized within the heart of one of the world’s largest parkland areas and finest remaining vast wilderness areas. We canoed America’s longest designated Wild River segment and the longest floatable mileage of any American Arctic river--400+ miles down Alaska’s Noatak River from near its source in Gates of the Arctic National Park, through Noatak National Preserve, to its mouth at Chukchi Sea tidewater on Alaska’s west coast.
  • Organizing schools attended: Midwest Academy, IL, 1994; Highlander Research and Education Center, TN, 1993; Campaigns and Elections, Washington, D.C., 1990.