Inspired by Ray Anderson

A Look Back: Ray Anderson with CNN’s Barbara Pyle, 1998

If there was a Dictionary of Green Building, Ray Anderson is whose picture you’d probably see alongside the word “leader.” And I’m saddened to hear that he passed away yesterday, losing a heroic 20 month battle with cancer. Ray was a legend of corporate sustainability, a man whose personal story – a story of an [...]

As a relatively new kid on the block I haven’t had the pleasure of knowing Ray over a long period of time.  Although, such was his prominence in the industry, I’ve known of him and his accomplishments for many years.  As I joined the Interface team however, the long term respect I’d held towards Ray [...]

He took his position as the founder and CEO of Interface, the world’s largest modular carpet manufacturing firm, and made environmental history that is extending into many sustainability commitments for the industrial managers he educated. The loss of Ray Anderson at age 77 took from our country the greatest CEO, the greatest engineer, the greatest [...]