Lower your Hydro Bill
If you pay your own hydro bill or even if it is included in your rent… Here are some tips on how to be more environmentally conscious: In order to ensure your appliances last longer while operating as...
View ArticleKeep Your Rental Apartment Warm While Saving Energy
Ever feel like the inside of your apartment is actually colder than it is outside? If you’re a Canuck living in a rental apartment, you know this feeling all too well. Even if you’re living in a new...
View ArticleEco-Friendly Apartment Living
Going green seems to be the buzzword these days, but what does it all mean? Many of us want to find ways to reduce our carbon footprint and limit the impact our everyday activities have on the...
View ArticleGardening in Your Rental Apartment
A Beginner’s Guide to Eco-Friendly – Gardening in Your Rental Apartment: Whether you’re an aspiring green thumb or a clueless urbanite, apartment gardening is a growing trend in many cities across...
View ArticleNatural and Eco-Friendly Apartment Cleaning
We all try to make more environmentally-conscience choices, whether we walk to work instead of drive or recycle all of our paper and plastic products. But what about cleaning our apartment rentals?...
View ArticleApartment Living – No Car? No Problem!
If you are like many people nowadays, you are putting car ownership at the bottom of your to-do list. In fact, according to The New York Times, forty-six per cent of drivers aged 18 to 24 said they...
View ArticleGoing Green: Apartment Composting
Many cities across Canada are now offering “green bins” to their residents that can be filled with household organic waste. According to a 2013 Statistics Canada survey, 45 per cent of all Canadian...
View ArticleFlexing Your Green Thumb as a Renter
Want to go green? You’re not alone. The environmental-friendly household trend is no longer a trend at all. In fact, a study from Green Living/MacLean’s shows that 42% of adults have used a natural,...
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