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Ray Anderson

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Ray Anderson

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  1. Ray Anderson Ray Anderson Was founder and chairman of Interface Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics. He was "known in environmental circles for his advanced and progressive stance on industrial ecology and sustainability.

  2. Ray Anderson and Sustainability • Anderson first turned his focus toward the environment in 1994 when he read The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, seeking inspiration for a speech to an internal task force on the company’s environmental vision. Hawken argues that the industrial system is destroying the planet and only industry leaders are powerful enough to stop it. • In 2009, Anderson estimated that Interface was more than half-way towards the vision of “Mission Zero,” the company’s promise to eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment by the year 2020 through the redesign of processes and products, the pioneering of new technologies, and efforts to reduce or eliminate waste and harmful emissions while increasing the use of renewable materials and sources of energy.

  3. Ray Anderson and Sustainability Anderson chronicled the Mission Zero journey in two books, •  Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model (1998) • and Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose: Doing Business by Respecting the Earth (2009).  That latter was released in paperback as Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist in 2011

  4. Ray Anderson Awards • Ray Anderson received a host of accolades throughout his life, including: • In 2007, he was named one of Time’s Heroes of the Environment. • Inaugural Millennium Award from Global Green, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev (1996) • Recognized by Forbes Magazine and Ernst & Ernst, which named him Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996. • The American Society of Interior Designers Design for Humanity Award (2010) • Lifetime Achievement Award from Green Law (2010) • The inaugural Global Sustainability Prize from the University of Kentucky Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment (2010)[ • River Guardian Award from the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (2010) • Sustainability Award from the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF), the first time the WNSF has honored a businessman (2010) • Pillars of EARTH Sustainable Leadership Awards given by EARTH University in Costa Rica (2010) • Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures (2007) • Auburn University’s International Quality of Life Award (2007) • George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development (2001)

  5. Why I select Ray Anderson Well , after reading a summary about Ray and watching many videos I found that Ray Anderson is a Sustainability Hero he believed in the sustainability and protecting the planet , he was a leader in the sustainable business model.  although he was one of the greatest Industrialists in the world but he worked for sustainability with all the power he had. I attached a links for videos about him to prove my opinion. • Ray Anderson on Sustainability http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2LOUBme8rw • The Business Case for Sustainability http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qrQKA0xMko • Ray Anderson Discusses the Natural Step http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ7TV5i78Cc&feature=relmfu

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