Executive Orders
Four Executive Orders are in effect under the signature of the U.S. President that direct the Federal Government to reduce the environmental impact of its operations. These "Greening the Government Executive Orders" are designed to demonstrate leadership in environmental excellence and use the purchasing power of the Federal Government to stimulate markets for new products and services that will help others reduce their impact. Taken as a whole, these orders offer a broad framework for action for the Federal, State and local government, as well as business and industry.
From 1996-1999, Interface's leadership through Ray Anderson's role as the Co-chair of the President's Council on Sustainable Development had a major influence on the development of a series of policy recommendations to the White House on issues ranging from environmental management to climate change. These Executive Orders explicitly represent many of these issues as high priorities.
Click the Various Executive Orders below to identify Interface solutions in each category.
- Executive Order 13101: Greening the Government through Waste Prevention, Recycling and Federal Acquisition
- Executive Order 13123: Greening the Government through Efficient Energy Management
- Executive Order 13134: Greening the Government: Developing and Promoting Biobased Products and Bioenergy
- Executive Order 13148: Greening the Government through Leadership in Environmental Management
Sustainable Project Rating Tool (SPiRiT)
The Sustainable Project Rating Tool (SPiRiT) is a required rating tool of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that offers a checklist, strategies, and scores to help Army installations rate themselves on their demonstrated abilities to create and maintain sustainable facilities, and to plan improvements to the process of designing, building, and maintaining sustainable facilities. SPiRiT, which is based on the Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Rating System, and which is tailored to Army-specific needs, embodies accepted energy and environmental principles. SPiRiT takes a "whole building" perspective to help preserve the environment and improve facility life-cycle management, and to integrate environmentally responsible practices into the facility delivery process from its design stages.For more information on SPiRiT, click here.
Products from InterfaceFLOR Commercial and Bentley Prince Street meet the requirements of the SPiRiT IEQ credit for low emitting carpet. As is also true with LEED, some IFS and BPS products may contribute to aggregate totals for calculating recycled content for materials and resources credits.
GSA Evergreen Award
As a testimony to Interface's environmental efforts, the General Services Administration (GSA) recognized the company in 2001 with the GSA National Furniture Center's Evergreen Award.Click here to read about the award.
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