John Bradford Chief Innovations Officer Interface Americas, Inc. Sustainable Resource Management.

John BradfordChief Innovations OfficerInterface Americas, Inc.

Sustainable Resource Management

Is Sustainability...A Trend

or is it...

A Leading Indicator

“Well ahead of slow moving government, companies of every size and in every part of the

World are now waking up to Humanity’s impending, interlocking crisis, and the vastly Lucrative Rewards that solving them might

bring.”Fast CompanyMarch 2007

If the course is wrong,

The solution is

CHANGE

How Do We Change?

Crisis

Incrementally

Legislation

War

How Does Nature Change?

Generally Nature is Opportunisticin its Change Strategy

Adapt or Die

InputInspiration

Vision

InputInspiration

Vision

BrainstormingChelatingFiltering

StrengthsSelf AwarenessPersonal Dev.

Prioritization Process

Measurement

Change Process

Discovery

Prioritization Process

StrengthsSelf AwarenessPersonal Dev.

Realization

Commitment

Action

Assurance

Curiosity

Alignment

Courage

Contemplation

Perspective

Measurement

Gaining and Sharing

Knowledge

Personal Growth

MeaningfulChange

LEADERSHIP LEARNING

BrainstormingChelatingFiltering

Learning precedesALL

Personal Growthand Performance

Improvement

Sustainable Resource Planning

Consumer Responsibility

Sustainable DesignTransparencyTriple Bottom LineEnvironmental Product DeclarationExtended Producer ResponsibilityReduce Packaging

ReduceShop SmartRefuseReuseSeparatePrecycleChooseSustainable Resource ManagementCivic Engagement

Producer Responsibility

Retailer Responsibility

Source LocallyTake BackSell in BulkGreen ProcurementReduce PackagingReusable PackagingReuseRecycleCompostEducate Consumer

Government Responsibility

Lead by ExampleOversightRegulationInfrastructureZoningIncentivizeMarket DevelopmentTechnical AssistanceEducationGreen ProcurementDevelop MetricsSupport Existing EnterpriseAll Stakeholder Engagement

Sustainable Resource

Management

Zero Waste

Recovery

ReuseRecycl

eCompost

Collection/SalvageRepair/RemanufactureConventional ReuseCreative ReuseRedistributeResellEducate

CollectionProcessingSoil DistributionPromotionEducate

CollectionSeparateProcessingRaw MaterialsSell RecyclabilityEducate

LandfillIncineratio

n

Key PrinciplesRedesign

Highest and Best UseSource Separation

EPRReduce

Researcher vs. Businessperson

Designer vs. Operations Manager

Evangelist vs. Scientist

Engineer vs. Biologist

Adaptation Happens Best at BoundariesOut of the Box - Ideation

Languageof Biology

We ask Nature How She Would Solve Our Problems

and Take a Vow to Listen to Her Answers

for Three Months

Life Cycles in Nature

Take Make WasteConversi

on

Recycle

Algae + CO2 = Bio-diesel

Energy Cycle

Renewable Cycle

Oil vs. Labor

Supplier Interface Customer

lbs.

lbs.

lbs.

lbs.

$

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OIL

Is Sustainability...A Trend

or is it...

A Leading Indicator

Interface Inc. Corporate Vision

To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what Sustainability is in all of its dimensions: people, process, product, place and profits - by 2020 - and in doing so we will become restorative through the power of influence.