Ray Anderson, the founder and chairman of Interface who passionately advocated the business case for sustainability, died at his Atlanta home on August 8 after a 20-month-long battle with liver cancer. He was 77 years old. Born in Georgia, Anderson founded his company in 1973, producing the nation’s first free-lay carpet tiles. After reading Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce in the 1990s, he embarked on a crusade to drastically lessen his company’s environmental impact through the use of recycled products and renewable energy. Anderson received innumerable honors and was oft-referred to as the “greenest CEO in America.”
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