When a single species comes to dominate and ecosystem, whether it is a predator or a producer (i.e. plant), it tends to lose its adaptability. This can also be seen throughout human history. Economies that depend on a single commodity inevitably collapse. Consider the stock market decline roughly ten years ago. While not entirely technology [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Interface’
Resilience is the Key to Sustainability
October 16th, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Behavior, Business, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability 
Tags: Climate Change, Food, Interface, Keys to Sustainability, Nature 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Ray Anderson, Interface, and the Bottom Line
September 23rd, 2011 Justin Manger Ray Anderson, who passed away last month at 77, had an epiphany when he was 60 that would profoundly transform his thoughts about sustainability. In short order, it would also transform his carpet business, Interface, into one of America’s greenest companies. Here are some facts about how his push for sustainable practices led to a cleaner environment [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Interface, Waste No Comments »Rest in Peace Ray
August 16th, 2011 2nd Green Revolution Last week Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface carpet (click here for 2nd Green Revolution’s tag) passed away. Anderson was perhaps the most notable example of a CEO who converted his company to sustainable business practices. Inspired by Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce, Anderson became a pioneer in minimizing waste, recycling and reusing products, and [...]
Site Visit: Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
March 23rd, 2011 Eric Wilson I recently had the opportunity to take two tours of 1536 Wynkoop St in the Lower Downtown section of Denver. A hundred year old brick building that began as a warehouse, the structure is now home to some 38 non-profit organizations and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. According to the tour guide, the building was [...]
Posted in Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Green Building, Site Visits, Sustainability Tags: AASHE, Biomimicry, Bus, Chemicals, Colorado, Denver, Interface, LEED, Trains, Water, Water Conservation No Comments »The Footprint Chronicles: Where Has Your Jacket Been?
February 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson Earlier this month on Public Radio International’s daily program The World, reporter Murray Carpenter highlighted “some of the new technologies that help consumers trace the global journey of their purchases and calculate their environmental cost.” If companies are going to argue their products are truly green, there needs to be independent verification. Greenwashing (making specious [...]
Life Cycle Assessment of LEDs Reveal Greater Energy Savings
December 12th, 2009 Eric Wilson A series of posts on 2nd Green Revolution have discussed Life Cycle Assessments (LCA). Companies ranging from New Belgium Brewery to Interface Inc. have generated these assessments for their products in order to determine the energy and material requirements to create, manufacture, and dispose of their goods. As the name implies, LCA considers all inputs [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson Tags: CFL, Cradle to Cradle, Interface, LED Lights, Lifecycle, New Belgium Brewery No Comments »Interface Inc: Using Lifecycle Assessments to Measure Product Impacts
December 2nd, 2009 Eric Wilson Last Saturday’s post, the second written about Interface Inc.’s steps toward becoming a sustainable company, highlighted InterfaceRAISE. This is the third post detailing Interface’s sustainability measures focuses on lifecycle assessments and further details the path that Interface has blazed. One of Interface’s main goals is to become a regenerative business. In order to do so, [...]
InterfaceRAISE: Sustainability Advisor Services
November 28th, 2009 Eric Wilson A few days ago, one of our posts discussed the steps that Interface Inc. – a carpet company from LaGrange, GA – had taken to achieve a level of sustainable business practices that places the company as an industry leader. After nearly a decade and a half of developing a sustainable business, Interface has begun [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Eric Wilson, Green Economy, Sustainability Tags: Interface, Lifecycle, Natural Step, Necessary Revolution No Comments »Interface Inc. Leading the Way in Sustainability
November 24th, 2009 Eric Wilson While many companies are just now bringing “green” and sustainable products to market (as discussed in an earlier post), Interface Carpet based out of LaGrange, Georgia has been a leader in the field, producing carpet in a sustainable fashion since 1994. Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface Inc., recalls the days when he and [...]
