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“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…
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“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…
Are the water wars really over? It would seem so, with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in June that Atlanta can access water from Lake Lanier and Gov. Nathan Deal promising $300 million for new reservoirs. The…
“I was the typical capitalist – you know, Earth is mine for the taking.” – Ray Anderson The notions of corporate environmental sustainability and social responsibility are as old as the concept of business itself. Matter of fact, it was…
You better change your ways if you plan to stay. Jeff Mosier (“Any Mother Nature Would”) It’s not easy being green. Kermit the Frog It’s a good thing for Joel Babbit that The Rolling Stones weren’t…
Putting strong sustainability principles into practice is good for business as well as the planet, as more Georgia companies and their stakeholders are discovering. Even a tough economy has not deterred the state’s top corporate citizens from working to strengthen…
Bruce Rodgers had his second heart attack in March 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq, and through a post-surgery medicated haze he watched the conflict unfold from a hospital bed. He soon went home to continue his recovery and…
Three years ago Georgia was wilting in the arid throes of a record drought, the worst in more than a century. Scorching heat, record-low rainfalls in historically wet regions and shrinking water supplies pushed most of the Southeast to the…
A waxing crescent moon smiles down on the old Buckhead neighborhood where peacocks used to roam, sometimes stopping traffic on West Paces Ferry Road. About 400 of Georgia’s historic preservation gentry, in bow ties and evening gowns, have gathered here…
Sustainability is hardly a trend. It’s more of a movement – and it’s happening from within. In a time of slow growth, builders are shifting from fast and cheap to the affordably sustainable model. It hasn’t exactly galvanized a non-start…
As Georgia was grappling with the harsh realities of a finite water supply and a federal judge’s ruling that threatens the metro area’s access to Lake Lanier, Georgia Trend convened a roundtable and called on some of the state’s most…
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On Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at the Atlanta History Center, we had the pleasure of celebrating the 2025 Georgia Trend 40 Under 40 honorees. You may notice that some of the photos are dark. There was a major power outage about…
On Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at the Atlanta History Center, we had the pleasure of celebrating the 2025 Georgia Trend 40 Under 40 honorees. The evening was made possible because of generous presenting sponsors Mercer University and Vinea Capital and silver…