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Your Eco-Friendly Memorial Day: Top Tips
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Ah, Memorial Day! The unofficial start to summer and the official kick-off to barbecue, flip-flop and beach trip season. This holiday, get outside and enjoy the great outdoors the way Mother Nature intendedโthe eco-friendly way! And at Just Energy, weโre here to help you minimize ย waste, pollution and other negative, environmental impacts.ย Below, weโve complied…
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Eco-Friendly Ideas for Motherโs Day
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Does a bad Motherโs Day gift exist? Itโs actually pretty difficult to come up with a bad idea for gift giving on Motherโs Day.ย Most moms will be over-the-moon happy just knowing their children remembered the date! But this year, letโs do things a little different.ย Show your mom that you really care about herโฆand…
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Arbor Day and Climate Change: Why It Matters?
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So what is โArbor Dayโ really about?ย Weโre betting you โ like many of us – arenโt 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 โgo green,โpioneers…
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Earth Day Projects for Kids
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Each year on April 22, for the last 40+ years, we Earthlings have demonstrated support for our home planet and for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day is an international day of worldly-awareness recognized in 192 different countries. And while it may be second nature for adults to go extra-green on Earth Day,…
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Pound the Pavement: Celebrate National Walk to Work Day
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Held the first Friday of April since 2004, National Walk to Work Day was started by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the American Podiatric Medical Association. This special day encourages people to get out of their cars and pound the pavement on their way to and from the office. Ninety-one percent…
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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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Carbon Threat to the Great Barrier Reef
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The Great Barrier Reef, the 1,800-mile long coral reef formation off the coast of Australia, is in grave danger due to climate change and could see its destruction in just 16 years, a new report says.ย ย Home to hundreds of different coral, sponges, mollusks, rays, dolphins, tropical fish, birds, reptiles and other animals, and one…
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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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Climate Change Is Melting the Winter Olympics
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This yearโs Winter Olympics has had its share of issues, but it seems future games will have to deal with a problem more complicated than packs of stray dogs and unfinished hotel rooms. Climate change could very well cause a Winter Olympics melt down โ with unprecedented consequences. Even before the Sochi games commenced, several…
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The Olympics Are Greening Russia
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Aside from introducing the word โSochiโ into our everyday vocabulary, the 2014 Winter Olympics have served as a catalyst to introduce Russia to the concept of sustainability, including implementation of the countryโs first national standards for sustainable construction. The Olympic venues and facilities that were built in advance of the games utilized modern environmental standards…
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