8 Places To Go Green On Vacation

Do your part to help the environment, make your next vacay eco-friendly! These vacation rentals feature everything from reclaimed wood to fully sustainable systems.

1. Eco Earthship

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This totally off the grid earthship catches its own rain water, generates its own electricity, and stays at 72 degrees year round without the use of fuel or electricity.

2. Reclaimed Rental

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The entire home is constructed using reclaimed woods: 150 year-old railroad trusses overhead, circle-cut trestle wood flooring, and you'll just have to read about the rest.

3. Pineapple Suite

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Before this up-cycled container began its new life as a guest house, it trucked pineapples around Hawaii.

4. Go Green Rental

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This eco-friendly vacation home in the Caribbean incorporates a green roof, rainwater catchment system, and pass through louver ventilation, which keeps the house cool.

5. Exotic Treehouse

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This little house perched in the trees is built of sustainable bamboo and recycled lumber and windows from Oahu. Power is from the sun, wind and a back up generator.

6. Eco-Modern Getaway

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This LEED-certified home in Sonoma is filled with custom designed furniture and organic mattresses and linens.

7. Off the Grid Yurt

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If you are seeking a getaway from everyday pressures, you can spend your next vacation at this fully sustainable nature escape on 11 acres with water front.

8. Green Luxury

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This villa was created with indigenous woods and features floor to ceiling windows and views of the Costa Rican forest.