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The holiday shopping season is here alongside a barrage of cardboard packages arriving at the door. Between ordering gifts for the holidays and treating yourself to some sweet seasonal online discounts, many households are bound to receive an awful lot of packages around this time of year. Anxiously awaiting your …

Green buildings have really been around since the 1990s, and it’s really a way of mitigating against the environmental impact that our buildings have.So collectively, our buildings use massive amounts of resources, particularly energy. And so green buildings, unlike your conventional building, will use less energy to light a space, …

We know how quickly winter creeps in. One moment it’s bermuda shorts, barbecues and, for the lucky few, weekends at the lake. Then, all of a sudden, the leaves turn golden and fall, pumpkin spice fills the air and talk turns to the holidays. But for all the joy that …

  Climate change the greatest threat humankind faces today. We’ve already seen significant glacial melting, rising sea levels, raging wildfires, the migration of dangerous parasites and disease vectors like mosquitos and ticks, and—most notably—extreme and devastating weather events. All signs show that the problem is only going to get worse. …

  Practically everything we do, buy, and eat consumes energy and produces carbon emissions in some form or another. There are the obvious culprits: fossil fuels used driving to go shopping, flights near and far, and switching on the lights. The products we purchase also come with their own individual …

Share this Post When we read about the scale of plastic waste clogging our garbage dumps, and contaminating our oceans, it’s tempting to feel overwhelmed, and concern whether anything we can personally do would realistically make a distinction to this massive concern. However, the truth is that even little modifications …

Just Energy is moving away from the traditional, commodity-based business model and revolutionizing what it means to be a retail energy supplier in an increasingly digital market. Learn more about Just Energy CEO Patrick McCullough’s vision for Just Energy and consider how green energy, home wellness products, and smart home …

What Is Renewable Energy? Renewable energy is energy that has been derived from earth’s natural resources that are not finite or exhaustible, such as wind and sunlight. Renewable energy is an alternative to the traditional energy that relies on fossil fuels, and it tends to be much  less harmful to …

  Your heating and cooling system is the biggest energy hog in your home, accounting for almost half your total energy costs.[1] The money you spend on utilities rises dramatically in the summer and winter months when temperature control sees the highest use. Winter can be especially problematic, as heating …

    Mankind’s increased emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide cause global temperatures to increase, oceans to warm, ice sheets to shrink, glaciers to retreat, sea levels to rise, ocean acidification, and an strengthens extreme natural disasters.[1] The rise of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is due to …