In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can’t be replaced by the earth. Now, in the most inspiring business book of our time, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of industry to share that goal. 
The Interface story is a compelling one: In 1994, making carpets was a toxic, petroleum-based process, releasing immense amounts of air and water pollution and creating tons of waste. Fifteen years after Anderson’s “spear in the chest” revelation, Interface has:
*Cut greenhouse gas emissions by 82%
*Cut fossil fuel consumption by 60%
*Cut waste by 66%
*Cut water use by 75%
*Invented and patented new machines, materials, and manufacturing processes
*Increased sales by 66%, doubled earnings, and raised profit margins
With practical ideas and measurable outcomes that every business can use, Anderson shows that profit and sustainability are not mutually exclusive; businesses can improve their bottom lines and do right by the earth.

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose--Doing Business by Respecting the Earth

Business & Money

Ray C. Anderson

ROBIN WHITE

Economics

St.Martin's Press

Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, Mid-Course Correction is a business book about the enviornment that's written from a personal perspective.  With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, Founder, Chairman and CEO of one of the world's largest interior furnishings companies, recounts his awakening to the importance of environmental issues and outlines the steps his petroleum-dependent company, Atlanta-based Interface, Inc., is taking in its quest to become a sustainable enterprise -- one that will never have to take another drop of oil from the Earth.  Thought-provoking and thoughtful, Anderson's story is told from the heart.

Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise, the Interface Model

Peregrinzilla Pr

On November 6, 1947, Doctor Ray C. Anderson was winging his way to the Land of the Rising Sun, a place he’d never dreamed of going after the end of World War II. Commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corp, Doctor Anderson had agreed to participate in a proposed genetic study of atom bomb survivors for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. While in Japan, Doctor Anderson kept a daily diary along with taking numerous photographs of what he’d seen and learned. Today, his writings and photos exhibit a time period few have had an opportunity to witness. Doctor Anderson’s humorous yet insightful perspective brings forth a new awareness and growing appreciation for the Japanese as they recovered from a time of great hardship and terrible destruction.

A Sojourn in the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan, the Japanese, and the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, My Diary: 1947-1949

Elan Press

Energy Industries and Sustainability (Berkshire Essentials)

Berkshire Pub Group

In 1994, Ray Anderson felt a 'spear in the chest': he realised that his company, billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer Interface, Inc, was plundering the environment with its unsustainable business practices, and that it desperately needed to change direction. Under his leadership, Interface went on to set unprecedented targets for cutting waste, instigated revolutionary recycling initiatives, and encouraged employees at every level of the company to contribute ideas on how to save resources. As a result, the company's greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 82 per cent and are on target to reach zero level by 2020. Not only that, these changes also brought down costs, improved quality, and increased profits. In "Confessions of a Radical" Industrialist, Ray Anderson shares the remarkable story of how Interface turned itself around, and proves that running your company sustainably isn't radical at all - it's just good business.

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: How Interface Proved That You Can Build a Successful Business Without Destroying the Planet

RANDOM HOUSE BUSINESS BOOKS

In the 10-volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, experts around the world provide authoritative coverage of the growing body of knowledge about ways to restore the planet. Focused on solutions, this interdisciplinary print and online publication draws from the natural, physical, and social sciences - geophysics, engineering, and resource management, to name a few - and from philosophy and religion. The result is a unified, organized, and peer-reviewed resource on sustainability that connects academic research to real world challenges and provides a balanced, trustworthy perspective on global environmental challenges in the 21st century.

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Volumes 1-10: Knowledge to Transform Our Common Future

Berkshire Publishing Group

The Future of Sustainability, the tenth and final volume of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, brings together essays from a group of renowned scholars and well-known environmentalist thinkers. Crucial topics are considered in terms of the future of humanity and its relationship with the natural world, from aging and world population to the future of nuclear energy, cities, energy, agriculture, water, food security, mobility, and migration; the role of higher education; and the concept of collective learning. The volume's authors confront big issues such as "progress" and how to view the Earth's changing climate from the larger perspective of "big history." The volume concludes with a resource guide for teaching materials at several levels, a directory of leading undergraduate- and graduate-level programs in sustainability, and a combined index of the ten-volume set.

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Vol. 10: The Future of Sustainability

China, India, and East and Southeast Asia: Assessing Sustainability, Volume 7 of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, provides unprecedented analyses by regional experts, and by scholars elsewhere in the world, on China, India, and their neighbors. Despite growing demands on their natural resources (China and India alone are home to more than one third of the worlds population), the expanding global economic influence of this region makes these countries vital players in a sustainable future for all citizens of the Earth. Regional coverage includes topics such as business and commerce, environmental and corporate law, and lifestyles and values. The volume places special focus on demographics, geography, educational initiatives, international relationships and negotiations related to sustainable practices, and the role of government and corporations in promoting or discouraging sustainable choices.

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 7/10: China, India, and East and Southeast Asia - Assessing Sustainability

Berkshire Publishing Group LLC

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