We’re hosting a stall at the Green Earth Festival. Come along and have a chat, enjoy some free samples and find out about what we’ve been up to and ways you can green your rental property…

Saturday March 13th, Brisbane Botanical Gardens

Green Earth Festival is a free, family orientated, community event which aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle, cruelty-free, recycling and sustainable issues into the public eye; encourage people to make simple changes in their everyday lives to help our environment and the world we leave for generations to come.

www.greenearthfestival.net

We’re too late for their recent information session, but Melbourne Carrotmob have been busy on the streets of Boroondara encouraging small businesses to ‘go green’ by promising a plethora of customers if the businesses plough the profits back into environmentally friendly measures…

A carrot instead of a stick as it were…

melbourne.carrotmob.org

After all, businesses are generally renters to!

Well, support a great venture as part of Yarra council’s Sustainable awards scheme and vote for them…

More details here.

 An event that might interest the home food gardeners

Saturday 13th March
City Square, Swanston Street
10am – 2pm

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In the spirit of practising what we preach…

We have a subscription to the awesome and informative Wired magazine and for some random reason they sent two c of the same issue this month so we thought we’d have a giveaway, all you need to do is answer a simple question…

The feature article in this issue of Wired is about ‘Money’, what would you do if found an unexpected $50 in your wallet?

Respond via comments, and best answer received by March 13th wins!

The past few weeks have been very interesting for Green Renters with a trip to Sydney and a presentation at the Sustainable Living Festival, so what’s next? (more…)

Green Renters will have a stall at this years Sydney Rd Music Festival on Sunday 28th February, the stall will be somewhere near Savers, so drop by for helpful advice on how to live sustainably in Rental property!

CDs have become a bit obsolete of late with the increase of digital downloading, so what do you do with them then? They can’t go in the normal recycled (only a couple councils let you do this) and if you throw them in the bin then they will end up in landfill… not a good option.
Ever wondered what to do with you old, scratched or unloved CDs and DVDs? Most people have a stash of old data CDs at the back of their drawer that are in need of a good recycling! So Eco Innovators has organised the first CD Swap Meet Melbourne to be held on Thursday 4th march 2010 at a nice little drinking hole called the Edinburgh Castle Hotel in Brunswick.

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Green Renters run workshops for sustainable living in rental property.

We take a room by room tour through the average rental property looking at simple and cost effective ideas that can be implemented in a short amount of time that will help make your property more energy efficient, sustainable and save you money.

We also look at general lifestyle changes, ideas and advice for greening your life.

The workshops are practical and friendly in nature with plenty of visual examples, discussion and samples. They generally run for two hours.

Here’s the line up…

The Festival raises awareness and provides tools for change by showcasing tangible solutions to the ecological and social challenges we face.

In 2009 the Festival at Federation Square attracted over 124,000 visits and engaged more than 450 community volunteers.

In its eleventh year, the Festival is getting even bigger!

The 2010 Festival will include 2 programs, the Main Event at Federation Square (19-21 February 2010) and the Local Events Program (6-21 February 2010). The new 2-week format will enable individuals and communities across Australia to host and promote their own sustainability event, extending the reach of the sustainability message even further.

The Main Event at Federation Square in the heart of Melbourne will continue to celebrate the very best examples of ecological and social sustainability. The event will fuse interactive workshops, talks, demonstrations, artworks, exhibits, films and live performances. In recognition of the climate situation, the Main Event will be inspired by the theme: Get Ready for the Safe Climate Decade!

Our pics (most relevant/interesting to Renters)

Top 10 Reasons to Grow Your Own

How Car Dependence is Turning the Suburban Dream into a Nightmare

Sustaining Fashion? An Open Forum Exploring The Darker Side Of Fashion

GM Free is the way to be

Living Zero Waste

Life Time Affordable Sustainable Housing

Consumer Power-Making the Change

Sharehood Communities

And of course… How to Live Sustainably in a Rental Property yep, we are presenting a talk. It’ll be lots of fun with pictures, samples and demonstrations of things you can make yourself, so please come along . You can also chat to us as part of the Sustainable Living Library