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Veggie food v. global warming

The Belgian city of Ghent is the first in the world to officially push for less consumption of meat. This is political, not religious. Ghent is drawing attention to the contribution of greenhouse gases from livestock raised for meat. The U.N.'s FAO says 18% of all greenhouse...

Tags: Food, Meat, Global Warming, Livestock, Ghent, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Cut the crap. Stop the off-gassing of the cows. Sure, but how?

A French cow in The Camargue. Doing what cows everywhere are known to do. Methane is being emitted daily by cows and horses across this land, pigs too. Manure's another problem. But it could also be a solution. Right now the...

Tags: Cow, Harry Fuller, Livestock, Management, Manure, Methane, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Water technology sure to become more profitable. Great "Dry" Lakes study released. Our food is consuming our water.

The Great Lakes are a major source of fresh water for much of the industrial and agricultural Midwest as well as southeastern Canada. Now the US Geological Survey has released a report on what happens to the water after people take it out of the lakes. You can...

Tags: Food, Clean Technology, Water, Livestock, U.S. Geological Survey, Great Lakes, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Greenpeace hands game industry low score

Greenpeace hands game industry low scorehmmmm....guess this is the wrong crowd?Everyone on this forum only cares about money.... They talk the talk but don't walk the walk!By Apple - They actually have a green program for recycling their wares...unlike Microsoft and their warez, Dell, HP and others who apparently don't...

Tags: game, game industry, Greenpeace, livestock, low score, Man-made global warming

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Additional Resources

Flipping Fantastic

Getting the most out of Flip video cameras The picture above a still from a Flip video is of my venerable old three chip Sony VX1000 video camera, Frezzi light and associated 10 pound battery belt. In the foreground is a Flip video...

Tags: Microphone, Video Camera, Video, Camera, Flip, Flip Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Best use for touch hardware yet? FarmVille

Real men use a tractor.Why use multitouch when you can use a tractor?But isn't the FarmVille business model supposed to make planting etc really tedious - tedious enough to make you poney up for the fuel for your machinery?How else do they make money?Oh godNow I get to hear about...

Tags: hardware, Farmville

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

What's a brick?

CinderblockMany years ago a product called cinderblock was made from coal fire residue. It was similar to standard concrete block. In many cases, over time, it proved far less satisfactory. One big problem was degradation in a wet environment. It would get sort of mushy and...

Tags: ash, fly ash

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

SOA services: build now, worry about reuse later?

LifecycleI agree with Dan Woods in that SOA deserves to be revived.However, I disagree with his "two stage" approach. To reiterate, he suggests that stage one is you build services willy nilly, and in stage two, you govern them.The disagreement stems from the following reality. 99% of the world is...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, SOA, sheep

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Aquapilot 3.8E (Mobile)

Aquapilot is the solution to aquarium maintenance tracking & record keeping. It is always near by when you need it most! All records are safely backed up to your desktop computer when performing a standard Hotsync. Aquapilot's livestock database keeps a running account of fish and invert purchases with dates...

Tags: Parameter, Mobile, Lonesome Roads Software Design, Aquapilot, Palm OS, Productivity, Mobile Operating Systems, Desktops, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

NOAA sounding like Noah: head for the hills

Here are some findings on global warming released just now by NOAA. Heat waves will become more frequent and intense, increasing threats to human health and quality of life. Extreme heat will also affect transportation and energy systems, and crop and livestock production. ·...

Tags: Report, NOAA, Transportation, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Money, at the root of all roots

Food and how we get it. One of the crucial issues of this era. A report in Europe has just predicted famine and all manner of social and political disaster due to global warming. Famine, as in starvation. How we get our food will only become...

Tags: Food, H1N1 Flu, Famine, Food & Beverage, Blogging, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Veggie food v. global warming

Veggie food v. global warmingWhat is next breathing......ENOUGH already, I am sick to death of hearing about this made up lie to control what people drive, what they eat, how much energy they use to now meat!Good grief, there is NO proof of any of this except an agenda being...

Tags: global warming, Veggie food, Veggie, meat, food

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Blacklists vs. whitelists

Blacklists vs. whitelistsCommercial Site VettingMy concern with a vendor offering to optimize content is where else are they looking to monetize the relationship, perhaps through back doors?Data mine and sell to marketing? Take money from commercial sites or trade associations such as the dairy councils to improve the findability of...

Tags: K-12

Discussion threads 2009-04-30

Fat people an environmental issue now? How about flatulence?

On a planet with insufficient resources that would be Earth for us all live like hedge-fund traders, it follows that the HAVES will not be popular with the HAVE-NOTS. And that may even go for human obesity. A medical journal has just published research showing that...

Tags: Calorie, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-20

How the superbug rise will probably kill you

How the superbug rise will probably kill youAnd?So what are you proposing: do not take an antibiotic to destroy what is killing you now, in the small chance that the remaining bacteria [i][b]may[/b][/i] kill you much later on?OK dont start panicking yet Ok Cdiff is a bitch is you developpe...

Tags: antibiotics, bacteria, superbug rise, Ok Cdiff

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Ethanol, our trash and our economy

This story has everything: suspense, victory, tragedy and a cliff-hanger. We still can't be sure how it's going to turn out. It all turns on Blue Fire, a California company aiming to build commercial-scale ethanol production plants, turning trash into sugars which can be fermented thence into ethanol....

Tags: Southern California, Biofuel, Trash, Landfill, Plant, Blue Fire, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Sun power could be really cooking

A solar cooker that can be made for a few dollars has won a prize for best eco-idea. An inventor in Kenya came up with the cardboard-based cooker. It can be used for bloiling water, baking or boiling food. He named it "Kyoto Cooker"...

Tags: Emission, Sun Microsystems Inc., Food & Beverage, Network Technology, Manufacturing, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Interactive Outlier Review and Regression Analysis in Stat Studio

The National Agricultural Statistics Service NASS conducts hundreds of surveys every year covering the breadth of US agriculture from aquaculture and horticulture to the more traditional crop and livestock farms. Most of these surveys are sampled from stratified lists of farm and ranch operators. An exception to this is the...

Tags: SAS Institute, Survey, Analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2009-02-27

Udder Chaos 1.0 (Mobile)

Protect your cows from Alien hordes as they try to abduct your precious livestock. Alien hordes too hard, Upgrade your weapons and gain smart bombs to blow them out of the sky. Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, Vincent Nguyen, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-02-17

So just what is a 21st Century Skill?

So just what is a 21st Century Skill?What a crock of bullYou want to see our kids get ahead, Go back to teaching them the three R's.It doesn't mean anything.You do what's required to get the job now just as you have done before. Defining 21CS is pointless...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Defining 21CS

Discussion threads 2008-12-04