Ray Anderson, Chair of Interface, and a tireless advocate for sustainable business practices, died from cancer on Monday at the age of 77.
Thank you Ray, for all that you have done.
Anderson founded the carpet company Interface in 1973. His life was changed when he read Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce in 1994. Reading that book drove a stake through his heart as he realized the role his company played in destroying our planet. It was then that he became a “radical industrialist.”
He promised Interface would “be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: people, process, product, place, and profits - by 2020 - and in doing so, to become restorative through the power of influence.”
Interface is now a billion dollar company and the world’s top manufacturer of carpet tiles.
