October 20, 2006
The Corporate Captain Who Aims for 'Zero Footprint'
Ray C. Anderson is founder, chairman, and former chief executive officer of Interface Inc., one of the largest commercial-carpet companies in the world. He is also one of the corporate world's leading advocates of sustainability. In 1994, when he was 60, Mr. Anderson experienced an epiphany after reading a book by the eco-capitalist Paul Hawken. The CEO decided that Interface's operations would become completely sustainable by 2020, and he estimates that his company's drive to eliminate
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