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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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- Washington: lots of talk about global warming
- Lots of talk around the American capital today on the topic of global warming. The CO2 emissions from various political factions and lobbyists alone could raise the global temp another degree or two. And that's not counting the carbon footprint of all the plane travel involved in moving...
- Tags: U.S., Republican, Climate Change, U.S. Senate, Global Warming, European Union, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Hot air balloons rise from United Nations
- Hot air balloons of the "trial balloon" type in the verrrry political world of climate change diplomacy. The heads of state from the world's two biggest air polluters--China and U.S.--made strong statements about global warming. They are clearly not in favor of it. Meanwhile, the head of...
- Tags: U.S., China, Japan, Global Warming, U.N., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Wind energy: recession proof?
- 2008 was another record year for increased use of wind energy to generate electricity in the U.S. For the fourth straight year the U.S. led the planet in adding new wind energy generation capacity. That was before any stimulus plan. It was certainly boosted by 2008's rising...
- Tags: U.S., Recession, Wind Energy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Are we re-training America?
- Rail transit is the most efficient current method of moving more than few people over long distances. Yet the U.S. is far behind most wealthy nations in its speed and usefulness of its long-distance rail travel. There is some indication the U.S. is going to play catch-up. ...
- Tags: U.S., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?
- Is it too late for the green tech boom in the U.S.? Is the nation now second-rate technologically? Did the eight years of aerobics during the Bush Administration leave the U.S. one lap behind nations actually in the running? There are certainly lots of folks counting on a...
- Tags: U.S., Green Technology, Pew, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- NOAA's prophetic pronouncements get reax
- From Greenpeace, hated by global warming deniers--Greenpeace USA Climate Campaign Director Damon Moglen issued this statement: “The White House report on climate change is a stark confirmation of what scientists have been saying for years: unless we dramatically curb our emissions, the world will face unprecedented climate...
- Tags: U.S., President, NOAA, Climate, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Forget local fracking, let's drill, baby, drill
- There's a sandpile full of natural gas under the Gulf of Mexico. Does that signal the next energy bubble or what? This would get around any complaints of fracking on land, no humans live out there. Today the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed findings that there is considerable...
- Tags: U.S., Gulf Of Mexico, Natural Gas, USGS, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Environmental groups dump on "global warming" bill
- A gang of environmental groups are calling the current proposed energy and security act a sham, another government giveaway. The bill has just passed out of the House Committee where debate was held. Here's the crux of some environmnentalists' complaint: "As passed through the Energy and...
- Tags: U.S., Permit, Carbon Dioxide, Pollution, Global Warming, Cap And Trade, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- 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
- Who are the real swine here?
- Pro-agribusiness media are scrambling to keep the flu story from tainting factory farms. The runoff, effluent, off-gassing and general environmental degradation from this kind of industrial production of pork or chicken or turkey or beef is supposed by the businesses involved to carry no burden for dealing with the...
- Tags: U.S., Virus, Concentration Camp, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Renewable energy: who's got it, who's getting it?
- The NRDC has just put online maps showing where the renewable enerrbgy rresources of the U.S. are. And each maps shows where there are facilities already useing those resources, or are in planning stage. Click here to check out wind, solar, and biomass resource maps for the U.S....
- Tags: U.S., Renewable Energy, NRDC, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Trend spotting: Oprah goes green
- We've long known the issues around trash and landfills are part of a consumer culture. What about the unintended waterfill? Well, Oprah has just shined her TV camera onto the world's largest trash dump...in the Pacific Ocean.If Texas does end up seceding from the U.S. we could just...
- Tags: U.S., Boat, Oprah Winfrey, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Don't even imagine the oil age is over
- A new report by the U.S. Interior Department gives great support to those who say, "Drill, baby, drill." The report shows how little we really know about how much oil is, or isn't, under the oceans within 200 miles of the U.S. mainland. That would be the Atlantic,...
- Tags: U.S., Coast, Energy, Wind Energy, Offshore Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planet
- The Status Quo Crowd SQC are gonna write this off as left-wing, Euro-socialist propaganda. The SQC better hope the ideas in this report don't make their way into the halls of power because it proposes wholesale changes in the status quo and a peaceful revolution in how big business...
- Tags: U.S., Job, Greenpeace, Report, Status Quo Crowd, Transportation, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Is the U.S. unable to deal with global warming?
- The head of the International Panel appointed by the U.N.to deal with climate change is not optimistic about the United States' ability to respond to global warming. He told a British paper President Obama would face a "revolution" if he tries to bring the U.S. in line with greenhouse...
- Tags: U.S., Greenhouse Gas, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Who's to blame for America's loss of innovation?
- I blogged about one study of forty nations that showed the U.S. falling in competition and innovation. Down to 6th from its former leadership slot. Can we stop the slide? The talkbacks posit various interesting theories and placing of blame. Several indicate...
- Tags: Innovation, U.S., America, Teacher, John Muir, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- The U.S. is losing it
- That's the conclusion of a study on innovation and competition. Globally Singapore is now ranked #1 in coming up with new stuff. The U.S. has now fallen to #6 behind Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark and South Korea. Seems that public policy and government supported-research are crucial to innovation,...
- Tags: Innovation, U.S., Singapore, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Will talking stop the flow of hot air and CO2?
- Scientists from dozens of nations are hoping they can fire up the political powers to cool down the planet. In a preliminary gathering in Copenhagen next month, the world's climate watchers are hoping to generate interest and momentum to get national governments to take more aggressive action to combat...
- Tags: U.S., Carbon Dioxide, Scientist, Copenhagen, Global Warming, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Climate has changed around climate change. U.S. to be pushy.
- The chief scientist at the EPA says the U.S. will be pushing for more aggressive scientific action at the next international climate talks. Those happen in Copehagen at the end of this year. American scientists have complained that science was marginalized at the EPA during the past eight...
- Tags: U.S., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Climate, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- Co-operative carbon trading with Obama's US?
- Those wild-eyed optimists over in Europe actually think they might come up with a scheme that would have the U.S.and E.U. co-operating in trying to curtail CO2 emissions. Clearly this is an Obama-dependent idea. The E.U. implemented its own carbon-trading program in 2005 and now...
- Tags: U.S., Greenhouse Gas, European Union, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
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