WaterLife – The Story of the Last Great Supply of Fresh Drinking Water on Earth No matter where we live, the Great Lakes affect us all. And as species of [...]
Extreme Green Sustainable Spaces, a self-styled “home performance retrofitter,” audited the San Jose home of Steve and Beth Griffith to find out how they could make their home safer and [...]
A Home for the Future Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus, a solar-powered home that won the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe, provides a glimpse into future living. Take a tour through the home [...]
How Much Is Left? The Limits of Earth’s Resources, Made Interactive This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, “How Much Is Left?,” which appears in the [...]
Powering a Nation: The Quest For Energy In A Changing USA Powering a Nation will investigate the political, economic, and scientific tensions behind US energy through advanced reporting to engage [...]
GE: Home Appliance Energy Use In the United States, over 20% of our total energy consumption is residential. In fact, in the United States, we are the 7th largest per [...]
Lowering Your Electric Bill Infographic EnergyAuthority has a pretty infographic detailing common electricity drains in the home and offers solutions to reduce your electric bill. No surprise that Heating & [...]
Water Grabs This winter brought heavy snow and rain to the parched Western U.S., but the region has been too dry for too long for one wet winter to make [...]
Action Sheet 001: Clearing the Air: Your Average Household Carbon Emissions and What You Can Do Average household carbon emissions by region. Available in two formats: Interactive graphic | Raw, [...]
P.O.V.’s Borders What is a border? How much is real, and how much is in your mind? ‘P.O.V.’s Borders’ is an on-going web-original series that explores the borders in our [...]
How Much H20 is Embedded in Everyday Life? You might be surprised at how much water it takes to bring that hamburger to your plate or to make your favorite [...]
National Geographic’s Remote Imaging Team Needs You! We work with researchers around the world to tackle conservation mysteries and other scientific puzzles. To do so, we custom-design a Crittercam for [...]
