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Confessions of a Radical Industrialist Ray Anderson

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist By Ray Anderson

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist by Ray Anderson


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Shows how industrialist Ray Anderson revolutionised his company. This title covers 7 ways of sustainability: moving towards zero waste; making emissions benign; using renewable energy; instigating closed-loop recycling; ensuring transportation is resource-efficient; creating a corporate ecosystem; and, assessing costs accurately.

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist Summary

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: How Interface proved that you can build a successful business without destroying the planet by Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson's story is truly inspirational. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray 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 he needed to steer it on a new course.

Thoughtful and winning, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist shows just how Anderson revolutionised his company, and includes the 'seven faces of Mount Sustainability' they are climbing:

1. moving towards zero waste
2. making emissions benign
3. using renewable energy
4. instigating closed-loop recycling, imitating nature's way of turning waste into food
5. ensuring all transportation is resource-efficient
6. creating a corporate ecosystem, with cooperation as its founding principle
7. assessing costs accurately in order to set real prices

By setting unprecedented targets for cutting waste, instigating revolutionary recycling initiatives, and encouraging employees at every level of the company to contribute ideas on how to save resources, he has succeeded in cutting Interface's greenhouse gas emissions by 82%, and the goal is to reach zero emissions by 2020. Not only that, he has also brought down costs, improved quality, made Interface one of Fortune's '100 Best Companies to Work For', and increased profits.

What Confessions of a Radical Industrialist proves is that running your company sustainably isn't radical at all - it's just good business.

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist Reviews

It's hard to exaggerate how important Ray Anderson's work is. He has proven that living in balance with the natural world doesn't require us to commit economic suicide. Companies who do the right thing are rewarded for it -- Zac Goldsmith

About Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson is chairman and founder of Interface, Inc. He's a sought-after speaker and adviser on environmental issues and serves on many boards, including that of the David Suzuki Foundation. In 2007, Time magazine called him a 'Hero of the Environment'.

'Part cheerleader, part scold, part dreamer ... [Anderson is] the rarest of hybrids: a born-again green industrialist.' Fortune magazine

'The leading corporate evangelist for sustainability.' New York Times

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GOR003873232
9781847940285
1847940285
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: How Interface proved that you can build a successful business without destroying the planet by Ray Anderson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
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20100218
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