{"id":86,"date":"2004-09-15T23:29:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T23:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2004\/09\/15\/carpets_the_way\/"},"modified":"2004-09-15T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T23:29:11","slug":"carpets_the_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Carpets the way of the Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The September issue of AFR BOSS magazine takes up as one of its themes &#8211; The Corporation. Specifically following on from the Australian release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecorporation.com\/\">film<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the corporation were a real person it would be considered a psychopath, according to a new documentary, The Corporation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found BOSS&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrboss.com.au\/magarticle.asp?doc_id=23760&#038;rgid=2&#038;listed_months=0\">second article<\/a> in the theme the more interesting of the two.<br \/>\nRay Anderson, chairman of Interface, one of the world&#8217;s largest carpet makers (and participant in the documentary) describes his Damascus road experience where he turns his company around from being a plunderer to trying as hard as it can to be environmentally sustainable.<br \/>\nHe shows that being good is good business.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not all optimism though. Joel Bakan, University of British Columbia law professor and author of the book on which <em>The Corporation<\/em> is based sounds a cautionary note<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The September issue of AFR BOSS magazine takes up as one of its themes &#8211; The Corporation. Specifically following on from the Australian release of the film of the same name. If the corporation were a real person it would be considered a psychopath, according to a new documentary, The Corporation. I found BOSS&#8217;s second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}