Ted Turner’s Plans To Save The World

Ted Turner’s Plans To Save The World

FORBES MAGAZINE At age 72 Ted Turner isn’t quite as pugnacious as he once was. He no longer refers to pro-lifers as “bozos.” It’s been years since he challenged onetime media rival Rupert Murdoch to a fistfight. And while he is a true believer in climate change, he’s...
At Home With Ted Turner

At Home With Ted Turner

AMERICAN COWBOY Ted Turner, Alder, Mont. 71, is not a cowboy. “I am a bison man,” he says. The famously outspoken media mogul and philanthropist has, in fact, been a driving force behind the resurgence of bison production in the United States. Managing editor Tom...
The 50 Who Made Atlanta: Ted Turner

The 50 Who Made Atlanta: Ted Turner

Atlanta Magazine In the forty years he has been in the public eye, Ted Turner has been called a genius, a jackass (by his father, among others), a visionary, childlike (a compliment), childish (not a compliment), a pioneer, a young maverick, an old lion, a straight...
Green energy’s odd couple

Green energy’s odd couple

Atlanta Business Chronicle How Ted Turner, David Ratcliffe became biz partners and pals. “Hi partner.” That’s the way environmentalist Ted Turner greeted David Ratcliffe, the recently retired CEO of Southern Co., at a meeting in Turner’s Atlanta office building...