Treasure, Not Trash
“This is all gold. This is a gold mine,” enthuses Costas Simoglou at the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) Center of Innovation for Energy. “Think of a landfill not as an eyesore but as a source for new…
Business Industry
Growing Jobs, Growing The Economy
Bob Shaw and Nicole Wimpy are about as different as two people can be. One is a wary, wealthy 80-something who built a carpet empire, sold it, and then started another one. The other is a spirited, middle-aged small-town…
Sun Dancing
It’s the sun, the sol of our solar system, to which everything that lives and moves, including the wind, owes its existence. Without the sun, there is no us, no Earth. You can’t miss it. It’s the biggest thing…
Flying High
Based in Savannah since 1967, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation has grown significantly in the last few years, expanding its Georgia footprint even as it became an international player. The company manufactures corporate jets, including the showpiece G650, which came to…
Real Time Matchmakers
Black Sigatoka is a disease that strikes banana trees in Asia, Central America and South America, often destroying entire crops, a situation that resonates with one South Georgia manufacturer. In Atlanta, a small group of information technology experts investigates…
The Good Fight
Parker Greene was recruited for a special military operation 40 years ago, and like a dogged, ageless soldier, never deactivated, lost in time behind enemy lines, he’s still on the job, working to accomplish a mission that won’t end,…
2013 Power Women
A Voice For A Community Helen Kim Ho Executive Director and Founder Asian American Legal Advocacy Center Helen Kim Ho is an American Dream come true. Her parents moved the family from South Korea to South Carolina when Helen was…
On Sound Footing
As 2013 was beginning, financial institutions were cautiously celebrating what seemed to be signs of recovery from a bruising five-year recession. Georgia’s credit union executives were publishing numbers they believe to be the clearest signs of sound financial footing…
Competitive Edge
Mark Toburen spent most of his life in and around swimming pools, first as a competitor, then as a coach. He earned three letters on the North Carolina State swim team, then ran one of the Southeast’s top competitive…
Robert Jepson, Visionary
Bob Jepson has uncanny vision. That’s what they say, the people who know him. He sees around corners, sees so well that he’s never failed in business, by his recollection. But right now, Jepson is using his telescopic sight…
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