Ecocentricity Blog

A bi-monthly blog by John Lanier, director of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and grandson of the late Ray C. Anderson.  Musings from John as he manages the private family foundation that keeps Ray's legacy alive. Subscribe here.

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Energy & Infrastructure
Ecocentricity Blog: Pennies on the Dollar
Fuel costs for electric vehicles kick the pants off of internal combustion engine vehicles (same goes for maintenance costs, by the way).
Environment
Ecocentricity Blog: Rational Hope
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe understands how important it is to walk the line between knowing the science of climate change and articulating a positive vision for the future, and she does that well. As she said in her TED Talk, “What we need to fix this thing is rational hope.”
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Ecocentricity Blog: Queen Daenerys Targaryen the Wasteful
In a nutshell, the circular economy is about keeping materials where they have the greatest value in the flow of commerce, thereby limiting extraction of virgin materials and disposal of items in waste streams.
Environment
Ecocentricity Blog: The Triple Bottom Line Approach
"True triple bottom line thinking is not about doing well and doing good, but rather about doing well by doing good. Strong triple bottom line companies seek to operate in a way that creates value in all three realms simultaneously. It’s about more of all, not some of each, and it requires a business to be honest about the harms it inflicts and authentic in seeking to eliminate those harms."
Environment
Ecocentricity Blog: Econ 101
We need to understand both microeconomic sustainability (what it takes for a single business, like Interface, to become sustainable) and macroeconomic sustainability (what a sustainable economic system would look like).
Environment
Ecocentricity Blog: Revisiting Maria
Though the storm blew over a year and a half ago, Maria has not left the island. I’m not sure she ever will.
Environment
Ecocentricity Blog: Trope-a-Dope
Our goal is to inspire others to become environmentalists, working to harmonize business and society with our natural systems. Dollars certainly help in pursuit of this goal, but a compelling and authentic example of what to do, and why we should do it, is so much more valuable.
Environment
Ecocentricity Blog: Math Without the Numbers
Ray Anderson's sustainability vision for Interface was for it to rewrite the IPAT equation. He believed that the harmful technologies of the first industrial revolution, extractive and polluting by nature, could be replaced by the technologies of a new, sustainability-focused industrial revolution.
Environment
Ecocentricity Blog: Eat It, Just Eat It
What we eat matters. It impacts our health, our environment, and the economic opportunities for farmers around the globe.
Corporate Responsibility
Ecocentricity Blog: I Did a Thing
The thing I did was write a book. Well, the second half of a book to be more precise. My grandfather wrote the first half, which he and Interface released as Mid-Course Correction in 1998.

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