Ted Turner

Smart philanthropy requires us to multitask across local and global scales as Ted Turner did with both the United Nations Foundation and the Captain Planet Foundation.

The Land Report reveals the top landowners in America. Younger investors join the elite 100 list which includes Jeff Bezos, Ted Turner, and Bill Gates.

Ted Turner, who implores folks to “save everything”, owns two million acres of land across America, making him the second largest private landowner in the U.S. Responsible sustainable travel can also be luxurious with a stay at Vermejo, a Ted Turner Reserves property in the Beyond Green portfolio.

Picture a resort large enough to be its own U.S. state and you’ll get a sense of the open spaces you’ll experience on a vacation at Vermejo, A Ted Turner Reserve. Set on over 550,000 acres in New Mexico, it's the perfect antidote to a past year spent indoors.

CNN, now 40 years old, has worked to hold its head above the fray, and provide, in the words of founder Ted Turner, “impartial news.”

After a multimillion-dollar renovation, Turner's New Mexico estate, Casa Grande, is now a luxury vacation rental—bison included.

Spurred by the data analytics revolution, corporations aim to collect and analyze reams of data. This data becomes the basis for modeling the future, which in turn can define growth strategies. This is what is meant by predictive and prescriptive analytics. I wonder what the "predictive" and "prescriptive" aspect will do [...]

  © Elena Cizmaric, Turner Enterprises, Inc. Michael: Ted, first of all congratulations on the terrific new book about you by Todd Wilkinson, Last Stand: Ted Turner’s Quest To Save A Troubled Planet. In your own Foreword to the book, you point out that tree-hugging and being in Forbes are by no [...]

(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The excellent blog Letters of Note ran this bit of correspondence from Ted Turner's father to his 18-year-old son upon receiving the news that young Ted had chosen to major in Classics at Brown University. Needless to say this bit of news did not go [...]

Media mogul Ted Turner, at the opening ceremonies of the 2007 Jules Verne Film Festival (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last night the Overseas Press Club of America bestowed its annual awards for work in print, broadcast and online. Although Forbes was not chosen this year, as it has been a number of [...]

Ted Turner. Source: CNN.com In 1950 world population was 2.5 billion. This week it passed 7 billion, an ominous occasion marked by various events across the globe, including a special CNN editorial penned by none other than f0rmer boss Ted Turner. Turner has a right to opine on population growth and global poverty [...]

He long ago left CNN. But Ted Turner is still stirring up the world—by threatening to save it.

Organization, which includes others like Neil Young and Dr. Sylvia Earle, aims to put ocean conservation at the forefront of the global agenda.

The billionaire land baron and Southern Company team up for major solar projects.

Patrick Gottsch's farmbelt formula for news is coming to Washington.

The media mogul explains what the American Dream means to him.