Occupation: Business Person Birth: July 28, 1934 Death: August 8, 2011
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that po….
During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw ….
One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the bios….
"Comply" is not a vision..
What’s the business case for ending life on earth?.
The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - th….
We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would b….
We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the s….
I always make the business case for sustainability. It's so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Ou….
The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of account….
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a prof….
If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource dep….
The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth..
I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the….
We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it..