The Certified Green Dealer Program is the nation’s only program for certifying the nation’s green lumber and building material dealerships.

Today, hundreds of lumber and building material dealers, and more than 6,000 individual dealer sales personnel, visit (and revisit) the Program’s website Certified Green Dealer to engage in the training and testing required to attain Certified Green Dealer status.

The Program currently has twenty online video training modules, covering a wide range of green building topics. A lumberyard or building material dealer location can become a Certified Green Dealer if 75% of its sales personnel view a series of web-based training videos (and take quizzes and pass a final exam) about building basics, green building, and green building products.

The Program is not affiliated with any particular national standards-setting organization, such as NAHB, USGBC’s LEED program, FSC, or SFI, though these programs are explained in the Certified Green Dealer online content.

To participate in the Certified Green Dealer Program, lumber and building material dealers pay a small first-year, per-yard tuition fee to certify all of their salespeople with the program training, and then a smaller yearly fee to access continuing-education programs and maintain certification in future years.

Boston Cedar was one of the first distributors in North America to be granted CGD status. Recertified annually since June of 2008, Boston Cedar been actively engaged in educating its retail partners, builders and architects through its dedicated Education Team.

Increased emphasis on green building has changed the way home owners, remodelers, and builders approach new projects and many of the high quality environmentally-friendly products that Boston Cedar distributes can help.

To learn more about the Certified Green Dealer Program, visit www.CertifiedGreenDealer.org or call 877-LBM-GREEN.