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...
Turner starts solar project

Turner starts solar project

Atlanta Business Chronicle One of the most highly sought-after parking lots in downtown Atlanta is being turned into a solar energy demonstration project. Ted Turner, one of Atlanta’s most notable business and philanthropic leaders, has built-out the first phase of...