Denver is getting greener. No, they aren't improving their landscaping and planting more trees and shrubs. Instead, more and more solar panels are popping up on buildings and homes around the town. Greenbox Self Storage is one of the newest businesses sporting solar panels. The facility recently opened in downtown Denver and is the first sustainable self storage facility in the downtown area. It is the first LEED-certified self storage building in Denver and the first newly constructed storage building built downtown in over a decade. [More]

There are three pieces of news that I would like to share with you today.

First, the Inside Self Storage World Expo will be held April 3-5 in the Paris Hotel & Resort in Las Vegas. Put that on your calendar and plan on attending. [More]

Large corporations are doing it. Small businesses are doing it. Companies all over the United States are installing solar energy to reduce their energy costs and improve their bottom line. Decatur Self Storage in Decatur, Texas, joined the ranks of businesses - like Wal-Mart, Costco, and IKEA - that are going solar. [More]

Finding alternate forms of energy has become a popular undertaking in most industrial nations in recent years. The idea that a nation could become less dependent on fossil fuels and help the environment in the process is too good for many to pass up. After the recent announcement that the UK government made concerning its support of green endeavors has many in the self storage industry eager to see how they could benefit. [More]

Normally whenever you here about someone or something going off the grid it’s because they are a part of some super-secret anti-government militia or because they work for the government as a secret-agent man (at least that’s how it is in the movies). There is, however, a more logical and danger-free meaning to the phrase when used outside of the cinema. [More]

Every person or entity that goes into business does it with one reason in mind—to make an incredibly large amount of money. Most are would like to give back to the community and/or environment as well (as long as it does not hurt the bottom line). What if you could actually do both? One self storage company thinks they have figured out a way to do just that. [More]

The government has tried to slow the depletion of the ozone layer through regulation and by encouraging businesses to pursue environmentally friendly alternatives such as solar energy, something that a number of self storage facilities have taken advantage of in recent years. [More]

Extra Space Storage, the second largest operator of self storage companies in the United States with over 850 facilities in 34 states, has embarked on a solar initiative on a scale that is unheard of in the self storage industry. [More]

The Lock Up Self Storage has jumped onto the renewable energy bandwagon, to continue its commitment to help protect the environment and contain electricity costs. The Chicago-based self storage company with more than 30 climate controlled storage facilities nationwide, has taken the eco-friendly step of installing solar panels in its Livingston and Westood New Jersey facilities. [More]

When you picture a place that goes by the name of ‘Garden State’ pleasant images of beautiful gardens, green pastures, and picturesque blue skies comes to mind. You think of the environment in which we all live, one that we must take care of so that future generations don’t have to go to history books to see pictures of grass. [More]