April 29, 2022
Influencing Others to Drive Positive Change
As industry pushes civilization to new heights, the world we live in is globalizing, disrupting, selling and consuming more than ever before.
Climate Take Back
Erin Meezan April 22, 2022
Revisiting Our Factory as a Forest Thinking
Nature has the power to regulate climate, but only if humanity doesn’t get in the way. Right now, human activity is interfering heavily with Earth’s regulating systems by producing too much carbon dioxide that is driving up global temperatures. This is where the third part of our Climate Take Back™ plan comes in – Let…
April 14, 2022
Stop Seeing Carbon as the Enemy and Start Seeing It as a Resource
At Interface, we’ve learned that carbon doesn’t have to be the enemy – it can be an opportunity. Taking a cue from nature, we decided to use carbon as a building block to engineer better products and give back to the planet rather than cause it harm.
John Bradford March 15, 2022
Sustainability Unravelled – Carbon Offsets
The world of sustainability and climate change can seem complex with its many terms and interpretations, in the Sustainability Unravelled series, we take a key term or trend, break it down to the key facts and provide ideas on the best questions to ask to compare products and services accurately.
Jon Khoo December 17, 2021
Sustainable Podcast Series
Interface has curated the finest leaders in the industry to create five thought provoking podcasts for the Sustainability Series on Talking Architecture and Design. There’s no doubt that sustainability is the issue defining the future of our industry. The Sustainability Series provides unique perspectives on some of the most interesting developments in the sphere of…
Interface March 24, 2021
Bringing our carbon negative carpet tile to market
In October last year, we achieved an incredible milestone: we launched our first cradle to gate carbon negative carpet tiles in the Americas. I’m proud to share that from today our customers across the Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia (EAAA) region can specify our first carbon negative carpet tile collection, Embodied Beauty™, and our first carbon negative microtuft product, Flash Line.
Nigel Stansfield December 7, 2020
Coffee Chat with Erin Meezan at the Global Compact Network Singapore Virtual Summit
This article was jointly authored by Ms Esther Chang, Executive Director of Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS), the Singapore local network of the United Nations Global Compact, and Ms Maxine Chen, Sustainability Communications Specialist (Asia Pacific) at Interface, Inc. We have just ten years left to meet the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.…
Esther Chang November 23, 2020
The correlation between recycled materials and the carbon footprint of a product
In order to be able to make sustainable purchase decisions and avoid emissions as a consumer, companies have to take the first step and invest in the development of products that pollute the environment as little as possible and which can be returned to the production cycle.
Mara Linn Becher October 19, 2020
Redefining Metrics for a Carbon Negative Future
Here at Interface, we recently released our 2019 Sustainability Highlights, which convey much of the progress we’ve made toward minimizing our environmental impact since we began tracking key metrics in 1996. While we share a similar overview each year, our 2019 metrics are something to celebrate – not only because we announced the achievement of…
September 15, 2020
Turn down the heat: Why carbon matters to us all
Carbon itself is neither good nor bad. It is a question of how we understand it and how we use it. The decisions we make now can, and will, change the legacy we leave for future generations.
Becky Gordon