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Ray Anderson’s talk about Business and Sustainability
September 03, 2009 by Ian Bryan
Check out this video of Ray Anderson discussing what it means to be sustainable and run a business.
"...for 21 years I never gave a thought to what we were taking from the Earth or doing to the Earth in the making of our products and then in the Summer of 1994 we began to hear questions from our customers we had never heard before: What is your company doing for the environment? And we didn't have answers. The real answer was not very much. And it really disturbed many of our people, not me so much as them. A group in our research department decided to convene a taskforce, bring people from our businesses around the world to come together to evaluate our company's world wide environmental decisions..."