by TEI | Oct 10, 2011 | Interviews, News
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...
by TEI | Jul 21, 2011 | Interviews, News
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...
by TEI | Jul 6, 2011 | Interviews, News
Smart Business Magazine The halls and rooms that comprise Turner Enterprises Inc. are more than simply office space for the entity that runs famed businessman Ted Turner’s operations. They’re partially a tribute to Turner, chairman of the organization, featuring...
by TEI | May 21, 2011 | Interviews, News
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...
by turnerenterprises | Jan 24, 2011 | News
ATLANTA, Jan. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The clean and plentiful sunshine of New Mexico is now producing electricity for some 9,000 homes as the Cimarron Solar Facility has begun commercial operation. At 30 megawatts, Cimarron is among the nation’s largest...
by TEI | Dec 10, 2010 | Interviews, News, Renewable Energy
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...