All about that bass: carmakers seek electric car sounds for post-petrol era

GENEVA (Reuters) – Carmakers are dreaming up futuristic electric car engine sounds to ensure that pedestrians can hear vehicles that lack audible cues like high-revving, howling combustion engines, senior executives at the Geneva car show said.The Audi “Q4 e-tron concept” is displayed at the 89th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland March 5, 2019. […]

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What Big Business is Doing To Go Green

“Protecting the environment is everyone’s responsibility. However, when a major corporation such as Frito-Lay, Nike, Dell or Staples takes steps to reduce its carbon foot print, the impact is not only significant, but measurable…” Check out some of these green practices being implemented by several multi-national corporations.

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Bill Gates and the Quest for Sustainable Energy

“We need an energy miracle,” says Bill Gates in this interview with Atlantic editor in chief James Bennet. “That may make it seem too daunting to people, but miracles in science are happening all the time.” So, what are the solutions to climate change? Gates has pledged to invest $2 billion in new alternative energy […]

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Sustainable INL

Ensuring the Nation’s Energy Security Without Compromising Future Generations’ Needs INL is integrating sustainability performance improvements in the areas that matter most to its stakeholders, including minimizing the environmental footprint, taking a progressive approach to mitigating climate change, and championing energy conservation. The challenge of implementing sustainability is to minimize the impact to operations while […]

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BYU-Idaho Energy Award

Gov. Butch Otter Presents BYU-Idaho with the 2018 Energy Award Governor Butch Otter presented the Energy-Efficiency Award to BYU-Idaho this morning. Governor Otter presented BYU-Idaho’s energy team with the 2018 State of Idaho Award for Excellence in Energy-Efficiency on the campus of BYU-Idaho. “They submitted 12 projects to the Office of Energy Conservation,” Governor Otter […]

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Recycling Water for a Cleaner Business

When most people think about recycling, they think of recycling plastic bottles, paper and cans, but have you ever stopped to think of about the water that is going down the drain in your shower or sick. That water can carry many different chemicals that can be harmful to the environment such as detergents and […]

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