Category Archives: Environment & Energy

Energy Consumption: How Much is Left?

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GE has been doing these awesome data visualization for the last few years and I really like this one — it’s straight to the point and simple but quite effective. How much oil is left? Where is the most gas and who uses the most? The answers are all in the interactive: We have 46 years worth of oil left. Russia has the most proven reserves of gas at 23.7% — and the U.S. consumes the most gas at 22.2%.

Visit GE’s visualization site: http://visualization.geblogs.com/

SOURCE: BP Statistical Survey of World Energy in 2010.

GE at TED: Visualizing Europe’s Energy Dependency

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GE’s hosted an on-site Innovation gallery at this year’s TED conference and featured this “Energy Dependency” visualization by designers Driven by Data which takes a closer look at EU members and the changes underway as the countries work toward their “20-20-20” targets. According to GE, the goal is to cut energy consumption by 20 percent; greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent, and increase the share of renewables in the energy mix to 20 percent by 2020.

The first image shows the countries at the starting gate in 2006, prior to the 20-20-20 goals being endorsed in March 2007 (they became law in 2009). By 2008, the last year for which the EU has provided data, Romania, Austria and Estonia were ahead of the pack.

GE at TED: Visualizing Europe’s Energy Dependency | GE Reports.

Conservation biology: The end of the wild

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Interesting read on the future of national parks.

Imagine Montana’s Glacier National Park without glaciers; California’s Joshua Tree National Park with no Joshua trees; or the state’s Sequoia National Park with no sequoias. In 50 years’ time, climate change will have altered some US parks so profoundly that their very names will be anachronisms.

via Conservation biology: The end of the wild : Nature News.