Course: SAT 230 Managing Food Production Systems in the Urban Landscape

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Multimedia Assignment 2
Multimedia Assignment 2

This next video is from a TED Talk by Ray Anderson, CEO of the largest carpet tile manufacturing company in the country and perhaps the world.  He talks about his vision of sustainability and how, even in a petroleum intensive business such as his it is possible to be completely carbon neutral and sustainable while being profitable.  In fact his company’s profits have increased the more sustainable they have become.

This talk isn’t about agriculture but it is about a vision for the future and what can be done today to make that vision possible in an industry that seems the antithesis of sustainability.  While watching this video think about transitioning to sustainable methods of agriculture, also a petroleum depended business.

“Ray Anderson: The Business Logic of Sustainability” © TED Conferences, LLC, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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