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Big carbon emitters fighting two wars simultaneously in America

I recently blogged about the EPA's move against major greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S. Well, the utilities, industrial air polluters, fossil fuel industry and their allies are fighting another, equally crucial war to maintain their current business models. This attack on Big Energy is led by a...

Tags: Global Warming, Alaska, Kivalina, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-03

Alaska Native Corporation Saves Nearly $1 Million With Unified Communications

Alaska-based Alutiiq offers services such as construction, security, and training for government-funded and privately funded projects around the world. The company has 6,200 employees operating out of multiple locations that span the globe. For interoffice and remote communications, Alutiiq relied heavily on separate office-based telephony systems. The segregated communications infrastructure...

Tags: Unified Communications, Employee Productivity, Microsoft Corp., Alaska, Collaboration, Telecommunications

Case studies 2009-05-01

Greentechies smiling a little brighter today, Part Deux

Billions and billions. What good entrepreneur could ignore the sound of money pouring out of Washington D.C.? From solar to coal, the energy folks may not be dancing in the streets, but they are walking more assuredly into board rooms across the land. A Swiss-owned solar firm...

Tags: Global Warming, Alaska, Manufacturing, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty â€" perhaps, hypocritical â€" record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...

Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Shell edges closer to Arctic drilling, but still has to delay

Shell Oil has obtained one of its needed permits to begin exploratory drilling offshore in Alaska. It got the EPA's permissions to release a certain amount of nitrogen oxides at each of its proposed drilling sites. The EPA says that is the amount released annually by 1500 school...

Tags: Offshore, Permit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska, Outsourcing, Advertising & Promotion, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-21

Global warming: a fish story, and your health

Salmon are not healthy in warm water. As the rivers of Alaska get warmer, the salmon there get sicker. Just one more reason food prices are rising, a larger proportion of the salmon caught in Alaska are being thrown to the dogs. In the lower...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Health Care, Global Warming, Species, Alaska, Salmon, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-15

Yes, you can get internet access in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska

I am conducting shipchecks on an Alaskan Marine Highways ferry this week in the Gulf of Alaska with stops in Kodiak, Homer, Seldovia, Whittier, Cordova, and Port Lions. I was afraid I would be completely offline and out of touch, but it turns out that the particular vessel I am...

Tags: Internet Access, Speed, Alaska, Download Speed, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-26

ADEC Brings Advanced Learning to K-20 Schools Via Internet2 in Even the Remotest Reaches of Alaska

Distance learning breaks down barriers for Alaska, a state that's more than twice as large as Texas - more than 586,000 square miles with only 12,200 miles of roads. Alaska Distance Education Consortium ADEC wanted to deploy network that enables distance education and collaboration across Alaskan villages and towns. To...

Tags: Distance Education, Juniper Networks Inc., Internet2, Alaska, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-03-01

Would the "Into The Wild" hero have survived in 2007?

  On Saturday we went to see "Into The Wild." Directed by Sean Penn, this marvelous flick depicted the two-years-in-the wildnerness trek of Christopher McCandless. A poignant theme of self-discovery. Story ends with Christopher superbly played by Emile Hirsch out of touch in the...

Tags: Phone, Satellite Phone, Satellite, Alaska, Network Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-21

A round the pole tour: Canada, Alaska, Britain & your kitchen

In Canada, the Green Party accuses the country's Prime Minister of backing a bogus plan that only pretends to follow the Kyoto protocol. And Greenpeace in Australia is accusing their government of supporting the move...all to please American President George W.Meanwhile up in Alaska they're studying an unusual new...

Tags: Kitchen, Britain, Global Warming, Alaska, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Photos: Where ScanEagle drones dare

Boeing touts advances in a small UAV that's being used by Marines in Iraq and geophysicists in Alaska.

Tags: Alaska, Boeing Co., Iraq, photograph

Image galleries 2007-07-02

USA-AK [Alaska] Map for EagleEye PDA Tracking System 1.0.0 (Mobile)

US-Alaska Digital Map for EagleEye PDA Tracking System

Tags: Mobile, Alaska, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-03-13

Stoked Rider - Alaska Alien demo (Windows)

Equip your alien rider and drop him at the highest peaks of tremendous mountains, wherever you want. Explore a never-seen-before terrain inspired by Alaska's impressive summits, or play online with your friends and players from around the world. New equipment not only looks good, it makes you a better snowboarder....

Tags: Alaska, Bongfish Interactive Entertainment, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-01-04

Photos: A volcanic view of Augustine

After 10 days of relative calm, Alaska's Augustine Volcano roars back to life.

Tags: Alaska

Image galleries 2006-01-31

Photos: A volcanic view of Augustine

After 10 days of relative calm, Alaska's Augustine Volcano roars back to life.

Tags: Alaska

Image galleries 2006-01-30

Photos: A volcanic view of Augustine

After 10 days of relative calm, Alaska's Augustine Volcano roars back to life.

Tags: Alaska

Image galleries 2006-01-30

MacTopos The USA at 100K 1.0 (Mac)

MacTopos The USA at 100K are USGS digital raster topo maps that cover the entire US except for Alaska (which has no 100K maps) at approximately 50 miles by 34 miles per map. They are ideal for seeing the overall topography of a general area. Used in conjunction with our...

Tags: U.S., Apple Macintosh, Alaska, James Associates, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2005-12-08

Images: Stay tuned for today's space weather

Radar stations in Peru and Alaska track fluctuations in space weather caused by the sun.

Tags: Peru, fluctuation, Alaska, radar

Image galleries 2005-08-03

Images: Stay tuned for today's space weather

Radar stations in Peru and Alaska track fluctuations in space weather caused by the sun.

Tags: Peru, fluctuation, Alaska, radar

Image galleries 2005-08-03

Alaska's Majestic Wildlife 1.3 (Windows)

Alaska's Majestic Wildlife features 40 engaging photos and tranquil MP3 music. You will marvel at Alaska's most popular critters, including bears, wolves, moose, eagles, dall sheep, otters, puffins, ptarmigan, owls, goats, caribou, beaver, pika, loons, wolverine, seals, walrus, lynx, and fox. Each image is picked especially for its personality. There...

Tags: MP3 Music, Microsoft Windows, Image, Alaska, Wilderness Inspirations

Software downloads 2003-02-16