• Eco-Friendly Summer Travel, Part I: Your Guide to Keeping it Green

    Eco-Friendly Summer Travel, Part I: Your Guide to Keeping it Green

    Diets and healthy exercise routines donโ€™t always go hand in hand with vacation plans.ย  Your environmentally-healthy habits, however, need not take a break when heading out for some summertime fun. ย From transportation options to dining while traveling, here is Part I of your Guide to Keeping it Green This Summer. And remember, these tips arenโ€™t…

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  • Your Kids Summer Holidays: Keeping the Green in the Routine

    Your Kids Summer Holidays: Keeping the Green in the Routine

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    Summer is a wonderful time of year. Especially for children! Theyโ€™re out of school โ€“ no homework, no uniforms, no early mornings and no more being cooped up in a classroom all day.ย  Theyโ€™re able to enjoy all the beauty of Mother Nature, provided you can get them away from the TV and computer long…

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  • Arbor Day and Climate Change: Why It Matters?

    Arbor Day and Climate Change: Why It Matters?

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    So what is โ€œArbor Dayโ€ really about?ย  Weโ€™re betting you โ€“ like many of us – arenโ€™t quite sure.ย  Well, your good friends at Just Energy are here to fill you in on the details surrounding your new favorite day of the year:ย  Arbor Day! Decades before anyone knew what it meant to โ€œgo green,โ€pioneers…

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  • 60 Minutes to a Better Planet: Celebrate Earth Hour 2014

    60 Minutes to a Better Planet: Celebrate Earth Hour 2014

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    Our busy lives, packed schedules and endless to-do lists make it pretty easy to rationalize away our responsibility to the environment. So this Saturday, March 29th, after your work week has come to an end and all of your chores and errands are checked off, take just one hour and use your power to make…

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  • Spring Greening

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    After enduring so many painfully cold, snowy, sleety, icy storms this winter, spring cleaningโ€” really, spring anythingโ€” is music to the ears. But before you thaw out and throw away anything even remotely related to a sweater, take into consideration the following spring cleaning, home greening tips. Fight the Urge to Purgeย  As soon as…

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  • Carbon Trading: A Primer

    Carbon Trading: A Primer

    Earlier this month, the European Union decided to postpone the sale of 900 million carbon allowances, increasing the price of these allowances in their carbon trading system and making it more expensive for companies to move under the cap-and-trade policy. โ€œHuh, what?โ€ you ask. In laymanโ€™s terms, this means is it will be more expensive…

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  • Iโ€™ll Have a Green Christmas

    Iโ€™ll Have a Green Christmas

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    Without you, Elvisโ€™s Christmas would be so blue. This year, make the King proud and make Christmas a green, eco-friendly event. Deck the Halls with a Real Christmas Tree The battle over real vs. artificial Christmas trees has been waged for decades, yet upon further analysis, we believe the live, green tree is the best…

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  • Veterans Day/Remembrance Day: Recognizing and Remembering All Our Heroes

    Veterans Day/Remembrance Day: Recognizing and Remembering All Our Heroes

    November 11.ย  Do you know what itโ€™s all about?ย  Do you know who we honor every year on that date? November 11 is not just another day off from work.ย  Itโ€™s Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in Canada. The day we choose to celebrate all those who serve and served in our…

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  • An Introduction to Wind Power: The Answer is Blowinโ€™ In the Wind

    An Introduction to Wind Power: The Answer is Blowinโ€™ In the Wind

    Dylanโ€™s famous lyrics may have been on to something. Is the answer blowing in the wind? Proponents of wind power sure think so! So, what exactly is wind power, how does it work, and what makes it a โ€œgreenโ€ option for producing energy? Below, weโ€™ve compiled a brief introduction to wind power as a source…

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  • 6 MORE Things You Didn’t Know Could be Recycled

    6 MORE Things You Didn’t Know Could be Recycled

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    Weโ€™re taking recycling beyond plastic and paper! After all, recycling is one of the easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint and offset carbon emissions โ€“ enabling you to help reduce the effects of climate change and global warming. A few weeks ago, we discussed some unusual items that you probably didnโ€™t realize are recyclable.…

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