Doing good by doing well

As some of you might have found out while reading this blog, I work at InterfaceFLOR, the European devision of Interface.

Interface is world renown for being one of the most sustainable companies, with one of the most sustainable CEO's ever, Mr. Ray Anderson.
Today we had the pleasure of having mr. Anderson visit our plant and speak to us on how Interface became to company we currently are. Very interesting story to be heard and a bit strange to hear Ray "convict" himself for being a plunderer, a plunderer of the earth's resources that is.

Our company has a Mission Zero.

Our corporate vision is to become, by 2020, the first company to show, by its deeds, the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions - people, process, product, place and profits. In doing so, we will become restorative. In other words, our intention is to put back more than we take out.

We aim to change our business from the traditional take / make / waste, to a cradle to cradle. (read more here)

Please watch the video below where you can see Ray Anderson on the business logic of sustainability. Yes people, it's really possible to make a profit while becomeing more aware of the environmental footprint of your company.



Why do we do al this? To protect tomorrow's child:

Tomorrow's Child
© Glenn Thomas
Without a name; an unseen face
and knowing not your time nor place
Tomorrow's Child, though yet unborn,
I met you first last Tuesday morn.


A wise friend introduced us two,
and through his sobering point of view
I saw a day that you would see;
a day for you, but not for me


Knowing you has changed my thinking,
for I never had an inkling
That perhaps the things I do
might someday, somehow, threaten you


Tomorrow's Child, my daughter-son
I'm afraid I've just begun
To think of you and of your good,
Though always having known I should.


Begin I will to weigh the cost
of what I squander; what is lost
If ever I forget that you
will someday come to live here too.



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