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…)

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

Ok, we admit, the classifieds section we started testing wasn’t all that good… Then we came across www.greenrenter.com that is precisely what you’ve been asking for, listings for environmentally minded tenants and landlords looking for each other, and unlike Green Renters, it’s dedicated to the task.

It’s mainly US focused, but has International listings and after we had a little chat to them, they’ve tweaked the address settings slightly to make allowances for Australian listings and are open to listings from other countries if the demand is there.

So start adding your listings and lets help a site with a great idea grow!

After many requests from Tenants and Landlords, we’ve opened our Green Renters housing board for testing (before we officially launch it).

This board is aimed at Tenants and Landlords seeking each other and nothing else at this point, so take a look at www.greenrenters/classified, post a test ad (or a real ad of course!) and let us know any comments, criticisms etc…

Apart from writing this blog, we’ve been busying ourselves with writing workshops (see the page link to the right) and articles for several magazines, the first of which has now been published.

So click here to read an article we wrote on Green Renting for the Australian Green party’s members magazine.

After the successful Green Renters workshop at the Melbourne Social Forum in April we will be starting a run of three at CERES in East Brunswick from the 5th of September.

The workshops are a practical and lively discussion of ideas on greening up your rental property. We step through the typical rental property area by area, looking in detail at what you can do as well as general lifestyle changes. There will be demonstrations and samples of some of our favourite recipes and tutorials to try and take away, showing you just how easy it is to achieve noticeable and tasty results!

Here are the dates :

5th September
3rd October
$28 / $18

Visit www.ceres.org.au or email us to register for a workshop.