“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them” —Paul Hawken The Ecology of Commerce In the program guide for TED 2009, the above quotation accompanies the bio of Ray Anderson founder and CEO of Interface and a [...]
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Ray Anderson
Posted in design, sustainability, tagged flor, interface, Ray Anderson, TED, ted2009 on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More With Less
Posted in More With Less, tagged angela belcher, macarthur genious, Ray Anderson, TED, tim o'reilly, timoreilly on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A week ago, during the TED 2009 conference, Ray Anderson’s talk generated a fair amount of discussion. During the talk, Tim O’Reilly offered a summary: “The new civilization = more happiness with less stuff.” This is a theme I’d like to explore. Can we recognize non-traditional examples of doing more with less? In America at [...]
It’s dangerous for you to be here
Posted in MIT Sloan, More With Less, sustainability, think, tagged Dana Meadows, Jay Forrester, John Sterman, More With Less, Ray Anderson, Sustainabilty, Sustainable Development, TED, TED 2009, TED09, Tim O'Reillly on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some thread-pulling on my part to weave together the thoughts whirling around in my head. In the movie “My Blue Heaven,” Steve Martin’s character (Vinnie) says to Shaldeen (Carol Kane): “You know, it’s dangerous for you to be here in the frozen food section.” Shaldeen: Why is that? Vinnie: Because you could melt all this [...]
