Roman Reference - Apartments Rome, is a vacation rental website. We pride ourselves of trying to be just more than that and to keep an eye opened for what should be the basis of every business nowadays: radical transparency, the 'don't be evil' motto of google inspiration and, most importantly, what is our influence, however limited, on the world we live in.
We love modernity and what comes with it, however there is an issue with sustainability. As it stands action must be taken from the grassroots; business and consumers who care, can't just wait for their governements to do it for them, they have to vote with their actions.

We didn't start this business with ethics or environment in mind and we certainly aren't a model of perfection. We have a vision though of how our business can contribute its own tiny bit on taking an everyday path to sustainability.

We're paying uttermost attention to our own carbon emissions. We're making our business almost totally paperless, we use LED for lighting, we reduce to the minimum the use of private transport. As a result the calculator on Carbon Neutral gave only a 3 tonnes production of CO2 per year for all our office activities.

Did you know you could offset carbon emissions of your flight and your stay? You can either buy offsets from websites like Carbon Neutral or, actually better, buy home appliances or change habits to reduce your impact. The so called Conservation time bomb, you can find here some useful links about it. When renting with us you can choose Apartments Rome that are Ranked A as eco-footprint, your selection will work as a further motivation for owners to improve the standard of their household appliances and, most importantly, you can and should pay attention to your own use of energy while renting, if not for the environment, at least do it for your wallet since we capped the use of energy to a sustainable amount, if you go over that limit you pay the difference (see Apartments Rome FAQ for details).

Properties are ranked for their ecological footprint on our website. Choosing Category A energy appliances, setting thermostats and/or timers, motion-detection sensors, filters cleaning for air conditioning, proper insulation, etc will help your apartment in Rome eco-footstep to keep at reasonable levels and, ultimately, get you more business.

Product-service-system is one of the reasons that make vacation rental traveling ecologically sustainable. Quoting Alex Steffen description of the term it's about emphasizing access over ownership. It's about sharing products among people and recognizing that green systems are just as important as green products. Using a vacation rental or, better, a sublet instead of a hotel makes a lot of environmental sense. Vacation rental business slows down requests for hotel rooms and therefore the incentive to build new ones; shares resources already in use; ultimately it's a great product-service-system.