Environmental benefits

Help keep Vermont green.

Home sharing supports smart growth principals:

• Uses space, energy, and resources more efficiently
• Preserves open space, farmland, forests, and other critical environmental areas
• Reduces consumption
• Can encourage waste reduction
• Reduces household energy use
• Shrinks your carbon footprint
• Sets a green example for others
• Can help take cars off the road and support a variety of transportation choices
• Strengthens sense of community

Learn more about Smart Growth Vermont:  smartgrowthvermont.org

“One of the core organizing principles of smart growth is to alleviate pressure to develop open spaces and farmland by reinvesting in existing communities and making them better places to live. One of the central goals of the Smart Growth movement is to expand the range of choice in housing, both in style and location.”
— From Smart Growth America