Why is stiving for sustainability SO important?


	Why is stiving for sustainability SO important?

egsnyder

5-12-2008 4:19 PM

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zero waste, environment, sustainable manufacturing

egsnyder says:

This piece has been extracted from the Interface Inc. website. Interface is the largest manufacturer of carpeting in the world. In the mid 90's, then CEO, Ray Anderson [one of my person heroes /egs...], had an epiphany... a spear through the chest, and started this multinational corporation down a new path!

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							Here's the problem in a nutshell. Industrialism developed in a different world 
							from the one we live in today: fewer people, less material well-being, 
							plentiful natural resources. What emerged was a highly productive, 
							take-make-waste system that assumed infinite resources and infinite sinks for 
							industrial wastes. Industry moves, mines, extracts, shovels, burns, wastes, 
							pumps and disposes of four million pounds of material in order to provide one 
							average, middle-class American family their needs for a year. Today, the rate 
							of material throughput is endangering our prosperity, not enhancing it. At 
							Interface, we recognize that we are part of the problem. We are analyzing all 
							of our material flows to begin to address the task at hand.
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							What's the solution? We're not sure, but we have some ideas. We believe that 
							there's a cure for resource waste that is profitable, creative and practical. 
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