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Green Rental Properties: From the Archives
Dig deeper into these articles on Rental from the TreeHugger and Planet Green archives.
Guides for How to Go Green
- Our guide on How to Go Green: Dorm Rooms may be meant for students, but we can all learn a thing or two from it.
- Renovating may not be an option, but you don’t need the landlord’s permission to green your furniture.
- Our guide on How to Green Your Lighting includes plenty of easy-to-implement changes for more sustainable illumination, even if you don’t own your home.
- Your landlord may take some convincing to replace the old boiler, but some of the simpler changes like weather stripping are much easier to get done. Take a look at our guide on How to Go Green: Home Heating for more ideas.
Green Rental Properties Tips & Advice
- Those of us who rent often have to deal with a lack of space, meaning we end up looking for innovative ways to live small. Small Houses by Carles Broto is a good source of inspiration.
- We explore why single person households are not such a great thing for the environment.
- North Carolina students set up a website to "kick gas through smarter living," including an online apartment finder with mass transit information included.
- We repeat, once again, that small is indeed the new black.
- This multi-functional appliance offers apartment dwellers an instant kitchen.
- Compact fluorescent lightbulbs are one of the easiest changes you can make in your home.
- Even as compact fluorescents take off, Justin takes a look at an LED alternative in one of our most popular posts ever.
- The navy shower is a great way to save water, with no need for installing new equipment or technology.
- You might not rent forever – Justin looks at alternative strategies for owning your own home.
- Transformer furniture offers a great opportunity for living large in small spaces.
- This three-in-one bed, desk and closet is yet another example of excellent transformer furniture.
- Storage is always at a premium for renters, so Freecycle can be a huge help in getting rid of the clutter.
- It might not fit with everyone’s idea of hygiene, but the age-old adage of “If it’s yellow, let it mellow” is a superb way to drastically cut your water use for free.
- Our picks for innovative ways to grow your own food include a surprising number that would work, even in the smallest of spaces.
- We take a look at the top ten green energy utilities in the US.
- Composting isn’t just for those with a big backyard. Naturemill offers a compact, indoor composting unit.
- We take a look at a selection of affordable low-VOC paints.
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