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…
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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…
Making Connections: Joint Replacement Surgery
Three decades after a motorcycle accident left him with numerous fractured bones and almost took his life, Wade Norton began to experience knee pain that made it difficult to climb stars or enjoy a game of golf. He learned…
Rising Up
Arthur Blank is living every pro football fan’s dream except his, because owning a National Football League franchise was never his dream. “It wasn’t something I’d planned, either,” says Blank, who bought the Atlanta Falcons from the Smith family following…
Showcasing Innovation And Revitalization
When the 13th Heart & Soul of Georgia Tour embarked from Atlanta last spring, the 40 or so bus passengers were headed out on a three-day trip with nine scheduled stops in cities that had a number of common…
Come Together, Right Now
Back when Shirley Strum Kenny was transforming the State University of New York at Stony Brook into one of the nation’s top research institutions, she learned a lesson about the virtues of patience from renowned architect John Belle, who…
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…
Quantity And Quality Outside The Perimeter
When you think of pioneers in laparoscopy, robotic surgery or cutting-edge technologies, which Georgia health system comes to mind? When you think of Georgia’s busiest hospital emergency department or operating rooms, what do you think of? If you didn’t…
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…
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