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If you're a City of Melbourne or City of Yarra resident and would like some help bringing your home up to environmental standards, potentially getting lightglobes and showerheads replaced,...

Green Renters has been nominated as a finalist for a WWF Earth Hour award in the Education category. It's a great honor for a relatively new and small organisation like our not for profit to be...

I opened up the bin, and took out the contents to photograph. Besides some rather unsavory fruit peelings that didn't fit in the worm farm/Bokashi bin, here's what we ended up with from the kitchen....

Our council accepts plastic bottle caps as part of their recycling program but I understand this is not the case at all local council waste management programs. At any rate, they can always be...

I bought my own cutlery and carried lunch in plastic containers in a cloth bag and was a bit peeved when they leaked. It's always the beetroot! Still, no great dramas luckily. We do have a box of...

Green Renters contributors call out, Nov 10th Hello hello our potential new contributors, I'm focusing quite heavily over the coming weeks on the Green Renters website massive overhaul and...

Win a double pass to 'A sea change' Barbara Ettinger's multi award winning film follows Sven Huseby's investigation of what is happening to the world's oceans and poses the...

Environment Victoria's popular free renters guide has been reprinted! The guide is also downloadable and is full of tips on how to reduce their environmental impact and their bills, without...

The organisation is urging the Government to legislate basic living standards for rental properties. VCOSS volunteers visited 116 rental properties advertised in newspapers throughout Melbourne and...

You many recall the recent screening of the SBS documentary on not for profit enterprise Lentil as Anything which we discussed here. It a great social enterprise which helps many migrants and...