Organizations: Fernbank Museum
Nature’s Child: When Emily Harrison was a little girl in the late 1800s, she so loved to explore the mossy creek banks around her home in Druid Hills that she dreamed of a “school in the woods for nature study.”…
Georgia Trend - November 2010
GreenRoom: November 2010
Interesting new developments are emerging around Atlanta, centered on pedestrian access and representing a real cultural shift. It has relevance to sustainability efforts, based on reducing car use by making it more worthwhile to park and walk. And the pleasure…
Political Notes: November 2010
Water Wars, Part 7,962: Just as Congress was adjourning for the fall election break, Georgia senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss introduced legislation aimed at a resolution to the long-long-long-running water dispute involving Georgia and its neighbors Alabama and Florida.…
Neely Young: Shining A Light
I want to recommend a book called Lighting the Way by my friend Harry Gilham. It is a warm reflection on his career at the company he founded in 1960 called Georgia Lighting. For our readers who might want to…
Business Casual: A New Reality
Even though we know better, I suspect a lot of us are secretly hoping to wake up one morning and learn that the recession is not just “officially” over but that everything is back to normal. Our houses have re-appreciated…
2010 Silver Spoon Awards
Double-dip, anyone? Didn’t think so. What once bought you a double-thick coat of chocolate on your vanilla Tastee-Freez cone now conjures the gaunt specter of another round of belt-tightening. For some restaurants, this year’s squeeze felt more like a tourniquet.…
2010 Best Places To Work In Georgia
For the fifth year, we asked Georgia Trend readers to tell us why their company deserves a place on our annual Best Places to Work roster. And tell us they did. We take it as a given that people truly…
Salt and Rain
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…
Changing The Color Of Business
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 Message Makers
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…
