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[Middle English propicius, from Old French moment led to a new vision for the petrochemically intensive manufacturing company, and started Interface on a new path. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ray founded Interface in 1973. It was 1994 when the company began to build an entirely new business model. In a 2006 article, "A Better Way to Bigger Profit," he describes how this new model is helping the company climb what he calls "Mt. Sustainability--a mountain higher than Everest." The company strives to be service oriented, resource efficient, cyclical, powered by renewable energy, and strongly connected to its constituencies, as well as people within the organization. Interface obtains 13 percent of its total energy from renewable sources and has closed off 40 percent of its smokestacks, abandoned 53 percent of its effluent pipes, and diverted more than 38 million kilograms of product from landfills through closed-loop recycling. It has also offset C[O.sub.2] emissions related to company air travel by planting 62,000 trees and participated in BP's "Trees for Travel" program to completely offset its vehicle fleet's emissions. Skeptics might wonder how this can be done without major costs to the company; however, Ray emphasizes that the redesign has been rewarding on all levels: profits have increased, costs have decreased, and the employees have embraced new, creative ideas that have enabled the company to excel. Ray uses Worldwatch publications regularly and finds them essential to industrialists seeking to broaden their thinking on the environmental issues they influence, such as global warming. An Atlanta resident, Ray serves on the boards of several environmental organizations, including the Rocky Mountain Institute The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an organization in the United States dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the general field of sustainability, with a special focus on profitable innovations for energy and resource efficiency. , the Georgia Conservancy, and the Advisory Board of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment, affiliated with Harvard Medical School researches environmental health topics. It bestows the Global Environmental Citizen Award annually upon an individual working to protect the environment. . He and his wife spend much of their spare time at their off-the-grid mountain home near Highlands, North Carolina | Highlands is an incorporated town located on a plateau in the southern Appalachian mountains, within the Nantahala National Forest, in Macon County, North Carolina (a small annexed portion also being in neighboring Jackson County). . The ecologically sensitive log home was built with dead-standing Engleman spruce logs and uses solar energy for electricity and heat. They placed over 32 hectares of their land into a permanent conservation easement easement, in law, the right to use the land of another for a specified purpose, as distinguished from the right to possess that land. If the easement benefits the holder personally and is not associated with any land he owns, it is an easement in gross (e.g. . Jerry Unruh Jerry Unruh and his wife Diana had wanted to live in a solar house forever--or at least for the past thirty years--and after seeing an ad for solar survival architecture during a family skiing vacation in Taos, New Mexico Taos (IPA: [taʊs]) is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico. In New Mexico, a municipality may call itself a village, town, or city. , their dream came one step closer to reality. After taking early retirement in 2000, they signed up for a seminar on how to build their own passive solar home and soon after moved back to the Colorado Springs area where they both grew up to do so. Their rammed-earth tire house, which they mostly built themselves, is 100 percent off the grid and approaches net zero energy. It is composed of 950 tires packed with decomposed de·com·pose v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To separate into components or basic elements. 2. To cause to rot. v.intr. 1. granite from the building site. Their net carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. production is approximately 1.5 kg/day while the average household production in Colorado Springs is >40kg/day. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though a chemist by training (with 25 patents to his name) and a self-proclaimed introvert introvert /in·tro·vert/ (in´tro-vert) 1. a person whose interest is turned inward to the self. 2. to turn one's interest inward to the self. 3. a structure that can be turned or drawn inwards. , Jerry meets with hundreds of policy makers and government officials each year in an effort to get issues of sustainability on their agendas. Jerry's latest project is the newly formed Climate Change Coalition of the Pikes Peak Region, which is working to bring together civic and business groups from the Pikes Peak region who are interested in climate change and other sustainability issues. In addition to being a long-time Worldwatch supporter and reader, Jerry belongs to the Wilderness Society, the Nature Conservancy, NRDC NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC National Research and Development Centre (Institute of Education, London) NRDC National Realty & Development Corp. , Union of Concerned Scientists The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit advocacy group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The UCS membership includes many private citizens in addition to professional scientists. , and the National Audubon Society The National Audubon Society is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservancy. Incorporated in 1905, it is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world. . He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group for Colorado Springs Utilities. Jerry is an avid birdwatcher bird watcher or bird·watch·er also bird-watch·er n. A person who observes and identifies birds in their natural surroundings. bird watching n. and hiker and has been reading State of the World for over 20 years. He says the report has been instrumental in shaping his world view. |
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