Jon Khoo

Jon Khoo is a Regional Sustainability Manager at Interface with a focus on sustainability, inclusive business and intrapreneurship. Jon specialises in the commercialisation of Interface’s sustainability initiatives and response to the current climate emergency, such as its mission Climate Take Back – to run its business in a way that reverses the effects of global warming.

He was a key part of developing Interface and the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) Net-WorksTM partnership, a community-based supply chain for discarded fishing nets that provides access to finance and seeks to provide long term conservation benefits. Net-Works was awarded the Guardian Sustainable Business Award in 2015 for Collaboration and the 2016 US State Department Award for Corporate Excellence (Sustainable Oceans Management).

He is also part of the team responsible for Interface’s membership of NextWave, an open-source initiative led by Dell and Lonely Whale to engage corporates, scientists, and NGOs to figure out how to integrate ocean-bound plastics into products in a way that is both scalable and sustainable.

Jon is also the host of the Designing With Climate In Mind podcast a series of interviews with experts taking an in-depth look into the ever-evolving world of sustainable design.

Jon currently serves on the trustee board of UK environmental charity, Surfers Against Sewage.

Sustainability Unravelled – The Circular Economy: An End to Take-Make-Waste

August 5, 2022

For years, the world’s industries have been dominated by a linear, degenerative and destructive economy. We took the Earth’s materials, made them into things we needed or wanted, used them for a while, and then threw them away – the relationship between resources and products existing in a one-way flow of traffic, designed to extract…

Sustainability Unravelled: Carbon Neutral Products Made by a Carbon Neutral Company

February 2, 2022

Interface is now certified as a Carbon Neutral Enterprise according to the PAS 2060 standard, the leading international standard on carbon neutrality created by the British Standards Institution (BSI). In the last Sustainability Unravelled blog series, we explored what it takes to become a carbon neutral company. Key to that journey has been a wholesale…

Sustainability Unravelled: How We Became Carbon Neutral

January 5, 2022

Interface is now a Carbon Neutral Enterprise. In other words: we’re a carbon neutral company making carbon neutral products. As our CEO, Laurel Hurd, puts it: “Now everything we do, every aspect of our business, is carbon neutral. We have worked tirelessly to radically decarbonise, tapping into our culture of innovation and design, resulting in…