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A Model, Vision and Measurements as Guides

The Interface model for sustainable business has emerged, one that guides our journey and from which other businesses can draw inspiration and design their own journeys. As we put the model to work within Interface, we set forth our vision and, imagining all it would take to realize it, developed the Seven Fronts™. We then put in place measurements, called Ecometrics™, to monitor our progress and keep us on our journey’s path. Learn more about the 7 Fronts of Sustainability.

Interface Consistently Recognized as a Global Leader in Sustainability

Interface was again listed first in The Sustainability Survey by GlobeScan, the largest global poll of the views of sustainability experts, when asked to name individual companies that are committed to sustainability. GlobeScan notes that, “Interface maintains its position at the top of the list…Interface has clearly maintained its long-standing reputation for sustainability.” Read more here.

Where Am I? Sustainability

Toward a More Sustainable Way of Business

Business and industrialism developed in a different world from the one we live in today: fewer people, less material well-being, plentiful natural resources. What emerged was a highly productive, take-make-and-waste system that assumed infinite resources with little to no thought given to its impact. Today, that system no longer enhances our prosperity; instead, it is endangering it. When Interface saw itself as part of this system and the collective problem, we began a journey in a different direction, toward sustainability.

The Interface journey toward sustainability has been a momentous shift in the way we operate our business and see the world. Move through these pages for a closer look – you will find a journey that is marked by innovation, as we completely reimagined and redesigned everything we do, including the most basic ways in which we define our business. You will meet the partners who accompany and advise us on our journey and learn how we carefully measure our progress. We believe the Interface journey can be a model for business in the next industrial revolution.

Our journey has been incredibly good for the business of Interface. As our founder and Chairman, and the leader of the Interface journey toward sustainability, Ray Anderson, has said:
“Costs are down, not up, dispelling a myth and exposing the false choice between the economy and the environment, products are the best they have ever been, because sustainability has provided an unexpected wellspring of innovation, people are galvanized around a shared higher purpose, the goodwill in the marketplace generated by our focus on sustainability far exceeds that which any amount of advertising or marketing expenditure could have generated.

Interface’s dedication to sustainability has evolved into the company’s Mission Zero commitment — our promise to eliminate any negative impact Interface has on the environment by 2020. We hope our commitment will inspire you to create your own Mission Zero journey to sustainability.