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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. ...- more about Harry Fuller »
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- Happy hardware: tech lobbyist brings home the bacon
- Fed money goes for energy and water industries to get more efficient. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Lobbyist, Hardware, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- What's the hurry? You can still see Miami from the plane.
- GAO calls for national strategy to cope with effects of global warming. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: General Accounting Office, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-31
- Give us clotheslines
- Is the laundry movement getting serious? It's certainly getting more attention. I blogged it about here some time back. The folks trying to protect their property values from a neighbor's airing their laundry in public...well, those folks may be fighting a losing battle. And clothes pins...
- Tags: Web Site Development, Construction, Web Technology, Strategy, Internet, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Some prepare for Copenhagen climate meeting
- Here in the U.S. most folks don't even know where Denmark is. Hint, it's just a little east of Kennebunkport. But elsewhere the positioning before the December climate talks in Copenhagen has begun. In Britian, for example, all three major political parties actually admit there's global warming. ...
- Tags: Copenhagen, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- For coal and cows we ignore the polluted water
- Our American system often reflects the basic values of the nation, and it's clear that money trumps public health. I'm not talking about the medical industry. Not in the purview of this blog. Today there's an expose of how much dangerous crud is in drinking water around...
- Tags: Industry, Food & Beverage, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Toxic caulk syndrome
- Toxic shock syndrome was a killer in its day. Now the EPA is warning of toxic caulk...in schools plus other buildings that nobody ever inspects. Why bad caulk? The old stuff off-gases PCBs. Chalk another one up for the petro-chemical industry that create poisons faster than...
- Tags: Syndrome, Regulations, Strategy, Government, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Foundation of our green future
- I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...
- Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- $20/gallon gasoline: heaven or hell?
- Gasoline prices rank with beer prices and taxes as economic issues nearly every American reacts to. Now one writer has engineered a book designed to play to everybody's gasoline paranoia. Nobody we know controls the price of gasoline, but we are sure somebody can or does or should....
- Tags: China, NPR, Gasoline, Christopher Steiner, Globalization, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Drink up, the software says it's safe
- After 9-11 there was widespread concern about several vulnerable systems spread across America. There are power plants, large dams, long bridges. But most ubiquitous and highly susceptible are large regional and municipal water systems. With correct monitoring by sensors that are networked, now there can be rapid analysis of...
- Tags: Software, Beverage, Tools & Techniques, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- One forward step for Waxman-Markey bill, the easiest step
- The Waxman-Markey bill now faces the U.S. Senate where a simple majority is rarely enough to pass anything more important than a resolution commemorating some sports team's victory. Today the House voted to approve the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by only 219 to 212. ...
- Tags: U.S. Senate, Team Management, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- New England software company could harvest rewards from carbon cap
- The only carbon cap trading in the U.S. is now done in the northeastern states, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative RGGI. Using cap-and-trade market RGGI's collected $360 million through the auctioning of pollution permits in 10 states. This program would stop in 2012 if an overall federal...
- Tags: Software, Carbon, Tools & Techniques, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Quantum dots getting bigger
- Nature has article on the growth of the quantum dot business. You'll have to pay to see the whole thing, but it is relevant for possible uses in the solar industry. In the big business of very small things, big things are happening. Here's one...
- Tags: Quantum, Quantum Corp., Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Worse and worse
- That's the word from yet another projection on climate change. This one uses a modelling technique developed at MIT. And it promises no good news on the over-heating planet front. It shows a probability of more than 5 degrees temp rise this century, and some...
- Tags: Productivity, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-31
- Greening air travel?
- A contest sponsored by an airliner maker is looking for good ideas to make air travel greener. For each passenger mile chalked up air travel is the worst producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Walking barefoot would be the best, of course. So getting greener would be a...
- Tags: Contest, Airbus S.A.S., Web Site Development, Team Management, Internet, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- 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
- Swine flu and the enviornment?
- One sideshow in the current public hand-wringing over the new flu: is it possibly related to some environmentally catastrophic factory farms? Buried behind the bold headlines about travel warnings and "pandemic" pandemonium, there came this little political charge and counter-charge: the swine flu came from Mexican factory farms where pigs...
- Tags: Flu, CDC, Strategy, Web Site Development, Cyberthreats, Management, Internet, Security, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Who has the most to lose from rising sea levels?
- Sure, Bengladesh is a low-lying country. We've seen what water does in New Orleans. There are entire low-lying COUNTRIES in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. High water would take a toll on atolls, of course. Amsterdam and much of northern Netherlands are famously threatened by high...
- Tags: Sea Level, VENICE GOES GREEN Venice, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- National Science Board: get with it, U.S.
- An advisory board for the National Science Founcation, the National Science Board NSB has added it voice to the chorus saying, "Enough with the oil and coal, already." The NSB suggests moving America toward a more sustainable energy supply. The NSB release says, "The NSB recommends...
- Tags: Science, Board, Energy Economy, Energy Technology, Research & Development, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- 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
- Twenty years after major eco-disaster: not fully recovered
- It's been twenty years since the Exxon Valdez dumped 40 million litres in Port William Sound PWS, Alaska. Just now Exxon is finally paying out its fines to the residents of the area. As long as much of the world in dependent on oil,...
- Tags: Exxon Mobil Corp., Spill, Trustee Council, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Strategy, Management, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
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