Utility costs are really steep this time of year. Folks are cranking up their air conditioners to stay nice and cool, and those things are energy vampires. It's no secret that cooling your whole house ...

Andrew Blok covered home energy, with a focus on solar, and navigated the changing energy landscape to help people make smart energy decisions. He's a graduate of the Knight Center for Environmental ...

The average household sees five toilet flushes per day. With older toilets using about six gallons per flush, a person could easily get through 11,000 gallons of water per year this way. Water is, of ...

The reliability of our faucets providing water every time we turn them on can make water seem like a magical, never-ending resource. But abusing the availability of this finite resource can contribute ...

Many places are not getting enough precipitation due to climate change. Abnormal dryness (drought) is a problem in much of the United States. For example, over 100 million Americans in 37 states are ...

Turning on the tap for a gush of clean water is something most Americans take for granted. Getting that water into homes and businesses, though, is a logistical miracle. Doing so requires more than 2 ...