Greening Your Cottage or Vacation Property : Reduce Your Recreational Footprint EPUB

It's not easy to be environmentally friendly all the time, but it turns out there are lots of things a mindful cottage or vacation property owner can do to not only fully enjoy a cottage or property but also preserve it for future generations to enjoy. Greening Your Cottage or Vacation Property offers ways to save energy, reduce waste, and make your cottage or vacation property a more sustainable place for you and your friends and family, as stewards of the buildings and the land.

Authors and long-time cottage owners and environmentalists, mother and daughter team Joan and Tracy Bartley, show us how their family — and now yours — can not only vacation in an environmentally friendly way, but turn time away into a teaching experience. A cottage or vacation property is the perfect place to begin to live a more sustainable, eco-friendly lifestyle.

Whether your cottage is of new construction, or older and in need of renovations, opportunities abound to reduce, reuse, recycle, and restore with the practical, affordable, and insightful advice in this book. The download kit includes:• Cottage Greening Action Plan template• Progress Monitoring Checklist• Resources for further research and reading• Closing the Cottage for Winter Checklist• — And much more!