Ray Anderson, greenest CEO in America, dies at 77
Ray Anderson, 77, often called the “greenest CEO in America” for his crusade to turn his billion-dollar carpet company into an environmentally sustainable enterprise, died Aug. 8 at his home in Atlanta. He had liver cancer.
Mr. Anderson was the founder of Interface, the largest producer of commercial carpet tiles. For 20 years, he ran the business in compliance with government regulations but never thought much about the environment.
Then, in 1994, he read Paul Hawken’s book “The Ecology of Commerce,” which gave him a new understanding of how business practices could damage the environment.
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