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Harry Fuller is a media veteran, having spent decades in TV news in the San Francisco Bay Area. As GeneralManager of KPIX-TV CBS he founded one of the nation's first TV station websites in early 1995. He was News Direcor at TechTV when it was founded in 1998. ...
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- Chinese wallboard gets a dirty bill of health
- Chinese wallboard gets dirty bill of health from the feds. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Bill, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Weed killer in American drinking water, Part II
- Atrazine is a weed killer widely used in agricultural areas of the U.S. It has been banned in the European Union because of health hazards. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Health Care, Atrazine, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Medical insurance is not a greentech issue, or...
- Muir's Law: When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it attached to everything else in the universe. John Muir was right. I have tried to stay away from the nasty squabbles over the gigantic American medical industry. There's an over-supply of hot rhetoric and...
- Tags: Industry, Health Care, Insurance, Conservation, Muir, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-22
- Jobs: green or gone?
- While the media focus on the battle over the American medical industry, there is a simmering and soon-to-be fought war over energy and climate change. The House-passed Waxman-Markey bill has not vanished. The anti-government forces just came out with their scare tactic: this new law would destory millions...
- Tags: Job, Cap-and-Trade, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Having a bad air day?
- Wonder why so many people seem to be so dumb? Investing in real estate during a bubble? Smoking cigarettes? Falling for Internet scams? Maxing out credit cards at 20% interest? Well, some researchers may have some of the answer: bad air. Not "hair" but "air." Urban...
- Tags: Air, Gender And Diversity, Internet, Real Estate, Human Resources, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Ford says you can afFORD their fuel-savers
- Hybrids are not inexpensive cars. Ford says they're making a major leap forward for the old-fashioned, cheaper gas-guzzler. Make it sip less per mile. They call their new engineering "EcoBoost," no marketing slouches they. EcoBoost technology is now available in Ford and Lincoln vehicles...
- Tags: Injection, Ford Motor Co., Hybrids, EcoBoost, EcoBoost Technology, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Global wind day
- As the planet warms and we attempt to harness more energy from sources other fossil fuel, there's some caution needed. Climate change is also diminishing the wind supply in some parts of America. Iowa State's Gene Tackle is co-author of study that shows declining winds in parts of...
- Tags: American Wind Energy Association, Iowa State, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Transparency buried beneath ash heap. Wallboard the fix?
- There are apparently 44 coal ash heaps that endanger human lives in the U.S. That's the EPA's conclusion. And those 44 sites will remain secret because you or some other terrorist might unleash a deadly ash flow through the coal-burning communities of the U.S. I blogged...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Coal Ash, Turnabout, Vertical Industries, Homeland Security, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Flint sparks change
- Flint, Michigan. Infamous in Michael Moore's doc on dying factory jobs. Infamous as hometown of largest bankrupt corporation in America, General Motors. It's hereby downgraded to Sergeant Motors. That Flint is changing urban planning in America. Data indicates it has the furthest to go to...
- Tags: City, Flint, Real Estate, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- If we build it, what will come?
- The American infrstructure cheerleaders have a wish list, nearly a half-trillion dollars worth. They should learn to think BIG, like those Wall Streeters who are nearly their second trillion dollars of government case without a single shovel-ready project. Weell, there were some small grave-digging projects for the likes...
- Tags: Job, Project, Highlights, Job Year, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- When Americans were well-trained
- There was a time when Americans could take the train, and go places. Schedules then connected towns and cities more than once per day. Here's what one curious person discovered about travel in his area a century ago, before cars ruled. There currently is deep...
- Tags: America, Texas, Mph, Real Estate, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Kansas to get coal plants after all
- There's a new governor in Kansas and now the coal plants that were once denied are getting more help from the state. When Kansas actually blocked additional coal plant construction it was a surprising event in a conservative Midwest state. It looks like those plants will go ahead...
- Tags: Kansas, Governor, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- U.S. encouraging use of DDT...in other countries
- Do as I say, not as I do. That's the situation with DDT which the American government is subsidizing for use in countries fighting malaria. The DDT is now beign widely used inside homes and other buildings in nations where malaria is a major health hazard. ...
- Tags: U.S., Malaria, DDT, Government, Vertical Industries, Manufacturing, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- 500 billion tons, and counting
- The British science journal, Nature, asks if there's political will to do anything about carbon-loading the atmosphere. Their current editorial says there's time to do something...right now. But is there any political leadership to make anything happen? [poll id="125"] DON'T BREATHE THE AIR Apart from...
- Tags: Air, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Management, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Three groups in Western Hemisphere get MacArthurs
- Two Chicago-based groups and one in the Caribbean have been given MacArthur grants for their work involved sustainable technology and neighborhoods. Each will get $650,000 in the annual MacArthur grants to non-profits. 1) Caribbean Natural Resource Institute â€" Port of Spain, Trinidad. For over...
- Tags: Chicago, Chicago Community Loan Fund, Real Estate, Transportation, Vertical Industries, Government, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Moving on offshore
- President Obama moved toward more exploitation of America's offshore energy resources. Only this time it's not drill, baby, drill. It's about wind and waves. Obama made his announcement at a former Maytag plant in Iowa, a plant now being turned into a wind-turbine tower plant....
- Tags: Offshore, Prosperity, America, Barack Obama, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Earth Day: the most crucial issue
- Today at least one branch of the popular media tried to deal with the single most crucial issue affecting greentech, resources, the environment, the planet, your life and mine. POPULATION, as in how many people can this rock support? You can listen to the NPR show...
- Tags: Planet, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- The new railroad era?
- Will Americans become train trained? Europe and Japan have long had high-speed rail systems linking major metro areas. Can America rediscover rails or are we too much in love with the shoeless security probes and two-hour waits at the local airport? President Obama wants to...
- Tags: Barack Obama, Mph, Health Care, Speed, Rail, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Thirsty ethanol? An insider's view.
- An exec from an energy company has repliedc to my earlier blog on a study of ethanol production and its water requirements. Here are some comments from Growth Energy’s CEO, Tom Buis. “America’s ethanol producers recognize that water is a precious natural resource that must be...
- Tags: Production, Ethanol Production, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Sick of work? Or is work making you sick?
- Here's a look at several irritants at work that can make you sick...and we're not talking about your boss, or that crud you can get out of the vending nachines. The publicity for this issue was prompted by a World Health Organization report that was issued as...
- Tags: Engineering, Insurance, Healthcare, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
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