Green Renters

Summer activities with Green Renters

ChrisChinchilla — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:21:01 +0000

Looking to breathe new life into tired apparel?
Want to play our Green renting board games?
As part of the Sustainable Living Festival big weekend (and hopefully the Sydney rd street party) we have two extra special events planned.

Bring along a tired piece of clothing, a tote bag, material, whatever really and give it a new lease of life with custom sustainable stencilling by Fat Rhino designs. All for a gold coin donation, but remember, you need to bring your own item for stencilling.

Support Green Renters

Cassie — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:57:56 +0000

In the past 6 months we have:

Make your own… with Green Renters the next few weeks

CateLawrence — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:37:07 +0000

We have two extra special make your own workshops coming up over the next few weeks and after the past few sessions completely sold out, you'd better get in quick!

Make your own bath products
Ever worried about what ingredients are in your favourite bath time products? Looking for cruelty free, vegan products? Want to make your own? All recipes are free from artificial ingredients and preservatives! Learn to make your very own

Got a question?

ChrisChinchilla — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:23:46 +0000

There are a few questions we get asked on a regular basis, so we're slowly building up several lists of our articles and products that attempt to answer some of those questions.

These are still work in progress, but click through any of the headings below to be pointed in the right direction…

Welcome to staff member number 1!

ChrisChinchilla — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:48:22 +0000

We are happy to Welcome Cassie to the Green Renters team as our new employee number 1 to handle our fundraising and marketing.

Initially, as a small organisation with limited resources, it will be on a very part time and short term basis, but with her focus on bringing more independent and reliable sources of income into the organisation we hope that she will remain with us for as long as is possible.

Pets in rental properties

CateLawrence — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:08:13 +0000

This is part one of a two-part article on the issue of pets in rental property. Part one looks at the issues around pets in rental accommodation, particularly in regard to legislation, tenancy contracts and how to increase your likelihood of securing a rental property with a pet.

Part 2 will look at ways pet owners can make owning a pet more environmentally friendly, from type of pet, food choices and more.

Gifts from the kitchen

CateLawrence — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:56:52 +0000

I love making people gifts and I'm always keen to make my gifts homemade. I didn't have much time for crafting unfortunately so I decided to make some goodies from the kitchen.

Reasons I like making gifts:

The Eco Switch

brownbag — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:07:33 +0000

Saving stand-by power is a very important component of household energy efficiency. Products not turned off at the switch can use a significant amount of standby power and nobody likes using power for nothing. In fact, some sparingly used products can use more power on standby mode over a year than they do when actually on. You can turn these devices off at the switch, but sometimes this is not practical, and expecting your kids to go to such an extent is a bit like expecting a power company to voluntarily reduce their rates.