[SustainableNC] Ray Anderson speaking at Chapel Hill

[Sharron Rogers]

Opportunity to hear Ray Anderson once again.  
He will be speaking at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-CH next
Monday evening.  
The program is open, but I would recommend contacting the Center for
directions if you decide to attend. 
 
His Keynote presentation at NC Clean and Green 2000 can also be viewed in
RealVideo format at:  http://www.sustainablenc.org/main/onstage.htm
<http://www.sustainablenc.org/main/onstage.htm>   (in three 10 minute clips)
Well worth viewing again!  
Sharron 
 
Monday, April 15
Speaker: Ray Anderson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Interface Inc
Location: Koury Auditorium, McColl Building, UNC Chapel Hill
Time: 5:30pm
Topic: Mid-Course Correction
Sponsor: Center for Sustainable Enterprise/Net Impact


Ray graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with Highest  Honors in
1956 and with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. He learned the
carpet and textile businesses through 14-plus years at various positions at
Deering-Milliken and Callaway Mills, and in 1973, set about founding a
company to produce the first free-lay carpet tiles in America -- Interface,
Inc.  Today, Ray  commands the world's largest producer of commercial
floorcoverings.  In recent years, Ray has embarked on a mission to make
Interface a sustainable corporation by leading a worldwide effort to pioneer
the processes of sustainable development.  Named one of America's "100 Best
Companies to Work For" in 1997 and 1998 by FORTUNE magazine, Interface has
diversified and globalized its businesses, with sales in 110 countries and
manufacturing facilities on four continents.  Ray received the inaugural
Millennium Award from Global Green, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1996,
and was named co-chairman of the President's Council on Sustainable
Development in 1997.  He was also recognized in 1996 as the Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of Year for the Southeast Region, and as the Georgia
Conservancy's Conservationist of the Year in 1997.  In January 2001, the
National Academy of Sciences selected Ray to receive the prestigious George
and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development, the
first corporate CEO to be so honored, and in September of that year, the
SAM-SPG Award Jury presented the Sustainability Leadership Award 2001 to Ray
in Zurich, Switzerland.  His book, Mid-Course Correction, (Chelsea Green,
1998) describes his and Interface's transformation to environmental
responsibility.  

for additional information or directions contact:
Monica Touesnard 
Executive Director
Center for Sustainable Enterprise
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB 3440, The Kenan Center
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3440
1+ 919-843-9731 (tel)
1+ 919-843-9667 (fax)
touesnard at unc.edu <mailto:touesnard at unc.edu>  
www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/CSE <http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/CSE>  
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