Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson
jobs business responsibility
I used to think that my job didn't have anything to do with the environment. Then I realized that my job, as well as everyone else's job, impacts the environment in some way. And now advocating for sustainability has become my No. 1 responsibility.
powerful responsibility years
The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.
zero responsibility climbing
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.
allow placed unions
The unions will never allow another ambulance to be placed here.
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They all thought when we joined the league (from the Western District Junior Football League) that we were under done but we proved them wrong today. We've used this as our biggest challenge this season.
good
Everyone's out to have a good time, ... And so are we.
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I was mildly shocked they moved as quickly as they did. Like Tyrone, I think there are fine people at Notre Dame. But the situation got away from them, and the powers that be, who were in the background, saw winning as the most important thing, and that carried the day.
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I think I was surprised as anybody when I first got the call, because I've been an agent for 20 years, ... I was certainly intrigued and curious as to why me? But I'm glad I took the opportunity to meet with Arthur Blank and have that explained, or I wouldn't be sitting here.
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Those are three things that are kind of fundamental when you're talking about hiring a guy as your head coach. The absence of those three components of the process certainly had us thinking that this was unusual to say the least.
acceptance
The acceptance from the marketplace of what we're doing has been just astounding.
tendencies
I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.
current library parking pool room swimming
There is room for an Olympic-size swimming pool between the current library parking lot and the parking lot for Metro.
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It's too early to judge the initiative by the unique situation that Jerry Jones was in in Dallas, and the bad fit in Jacksonville with Denny Green,
bay
It's the grandfather of all the strolls in the Bay Area,