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. ...
It's time for a clever cleantech company to make a home testing kit for BPA. Maybe another one could be used by groceries that are tyring to provide truth in labelling. BPA would be biphenol-A a component of some of plastics now uibiquitous in our food packaging here in America....
Shortly after I posted my blog on CalStar making building materials from coal ash, I heard from the American Brick Industry Association BIA. They feel CalStar is ripping off centuries of brick brand equity. Here is the email with BIA's side of the brick business: "I...
I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...
As long as there has been digital tech, it's GIGO. Without data or faulty data, well, you get what you start with. Digital tech does not take cow manure and return tasty tomatoes. So even if your grandchildren are still powering this planet with coal...
DOW is beginning to market its new solar shingles. They can be integrated into the standard-sized asphalt shingle roofs common over much of America. The DOWâ„¢ POWERHOUSEâ„¢ Solar Shingles are photovoltaic solar panels in the form of shingles. The groundbreaking technology from Dow Solar Solutions DSS...
It's not peak oil and it's not war. But it is a greentech issue. It's population growth. But without unbridled population growth it's very hard to maintain economic growth. This issue strikes at the very heart of 21st Century business and politics. That's why we...
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...
There's some new research into the man-made continent of floating trash, plastic and styrofoam, that swirls in the North Pacific. Seems some of it breaks down pretty quickly. Sounds good, right? Biodegradable. But it degrades into chemicals like biphenol-A which is toxic. Oops. You...
Here's the score on America's cash for clunkers. Top sellers: 1) Toyota Corolla 2) Honda Civic 30 Toyota Camry. The hyrbid Prius was only 7th. Top-selling US-owned brand: Forde Focus at #4. On the dump-this-car end, Ford scored big. Three of the four...
Honda is the latest Japanese carmaker to promise electric cars for the American market. No launch date given. Here's the rundown so far: Nissan will release its Leaf here next year. Mitsubishi released its i-MiEV earlier this year. Toyota will have its first electric in 2012. ...
That stuff in your drinking water could be detected if we applied a little green tech. Sensors, digitally linked, could alert water drinkers in Ohio, Texas, Florida, Maryland and other atrazine-rich habitat. "Atrazine alert," it could say, "drink something else for a while." Real-time monitoring of public...
There was a good discussion on NPR of the locavore trend among some people. Does the carbon footprint of the food matter? How bad is the negative environmental impact of American farm subsidies? Money for corn and rice, not for tomatoes or blueberries. Why is meat-eating so...
IT'S ALL OVER, FOLKS. CASH FOR CLUNKERS ENDS MONDAY, AUGUST 24. Do auto dealers have any cars left to sell on this final CFC weekend? At least six automakers, including the three based in U.S., are increasing production to replace the more fuel efficient cars peddled under...
If you and I and all our friends and relations got together and decided to only buy certain products, or buoycott others, nobody would notice except us. But if the world's largest wholesale shopper, Wal-Mart, does something...well, everybody in the retail and manufacturing world will take notice. Wal-Mart...
It all began this week when General Motors claimed a 230MPG rating for its still unreleased elecltric Volt. Then Nissan claimed a 367 MPG for its unreleased Leaf. And that car won't even have a gas tank! So are the auto makers basing their claims on the...
There's an Aspen, Colordao, home with 16-inch thick walls. The house uses plenty of passive solar energy as well photovoltaic cells. It is a "smart house" with constant monitoring of energy use, light, solar input. The owner plans to put real-time data from the sensors onto the...
The federal department of Trsanportation is NOT yet releasing the data on over 150,000 federally subvsidized auto sales under the cash for clunkers program. And apparently the U.S. Senate will vote to add $2 billion to the DOT's funds for the clunker-mania. Before they see the data already...
Pressure to use ever more land to grow food and fuel is decreasing the land open to many wild creatures. Now there's concern that many dragonfly species could go extinct. Their larvae need fairly unpolluted wetlands to grow in. Most of the dragonfly's life is...
Organic gardeners are circulating emails asking for home growers to unit and get political. They see Big Brother stepping into the garden and making it illegal for you to give those extra tomatoes to your neighbor, let alone sell them at a produce stand. What's up? HR...
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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. ...
