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…
Green is good, Georgia companies are discovering, for both the planet and the balance sheet. A green business can be one that is based on selling green products and services or one that adopts green practices and procedures in more…
The advertising people are studying our habits and languages, getting into our heads, doing the math and exploiting the gathered intelligence to win us over, telling us what we want before we know it. Angels and devils on the shoulders…
From his office at the marine science building on the campus of Savannah State University (SSU), Dr. Matt Gilligan, professor and coordinator of the institution’s marine sciences program, need only gaze through his open door to survey the vast salt…
At a time when GEORGIA’S leaders continue to seek an-swers to traffic congestion, transit funding and aging infrastructure issues, community improvement districts, or CIDs, are pushing ahead with creative solutions to the region’s most pressing problems. Georgia has more than…
Biotech boosters are quick to tout the industry’s most virtuous goal: improving the health and well-being of life on the planet through innovative research. The other goal that hardly needs mentioning (and therefore, it rarely is) has to do with…
It was November 1970 and the founders of Atlanta’s Paideia School intended to start classes in 10 months, but they had no students, no money, no campus and a 25-year-old headmaster with no administrative experience. “And I’m not sure that…
This year’s search for Georgia Trend’s healthcare heroes took us to Columbus, Augusta and Thomasville as well as Atlanta. We found individuals who are joining their skills and their passion – one traveling regularly to Haiti to provide medical and…
Aerotropolis: The name sounds like something Mad Men’s 1960s marketing whiz Don Draper might have invented for Walt Disney’s newest attraction. You can almost envision Don and Uncle Walt poring over the “futuristic” sketches for this airport-city, a sort of…
In 2007, Lil Easterlin was at a meeting in Augusta where Gov. Sonny Perdue was giving a speech, during which he unveiled a program designed to improve Georgia’s workforce. “He talked about this program that worked with educational systems to…
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