Articles about NextGen
Jay Lanier Receives 2023 Interface Sustainability and Sales Award; Directs a Grant to the Carbon Leadership Forum
Jay Lanier, regional sales director for Interface, and grandson of Ray C. Anderson, has been presented with the 2023 Interface Sustainability and Sales Award. As part of his award, Interface and the Foundation will donate $2500 each to the nonprofit of his choice. He chose the Carbon Leadership Forum.
Read MoreBrightening Our Corner - February 2024
Our Quarterly Newsletter
The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has published its quarterly newsletter. February 2024.
Read MoreGroundswell Delivers Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Projects In Georgia
Groundswell Receives Drawdown Georgia Climate Solutions & Equity Grant for energy efficiency upgrades in low- and moderate-income homes in Southwest Georgia.
Read MoreNextGen Committee Grants $94,000 to Women’s Earth Alliance for Reforestation Efforts in Indonesia and Kenya
The Foundation’s NextGen Committee has awarded a $94,000 grant to Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) for two of their Women in Forests programs in Indonesia and Kenya.
Read MoreThe Hidden Carbon in our Buildings
Jay Lanier, Key Account Director with Interface, Inc. and a member of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation's NextGen Committee, wrote this article for The University of Kentucky's Office of Sustainability, explaining the huge impact that embodied carbon has on a building's ecological footprint.
Read MoreBiomimicry grad discovers life's purpose in nature
McCall Langford seeks to advocate for a global reconnection to the natural world to create a more sustainable and regenerative future
McCall Langford was introduced to the design principles of biomimicry at a very early age. She came to appreciate the intricacies of nature’s complex systems, processes and forms through the work of her grandfather, Ray Anderson.
Read MoreNextGen Committee Awards $100,000 to Ducks Unlimited for Blue Carbon Conservation Program and Infrastructure Investments for Indigenous Community in Sonora
The NextGen Committee of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Ducks Unlimited to support the efforts of its sister organization, Ducks Unlimited de México A.C. (DUMAC), to improve infrastructure and conserve blue carbon through erosion control and protection of 94,016 acres of the Seri First Nation Reservation in the area of Canal del Infiernillo in the mid-Pacific coastal state of Sonora, México.
Read MoreJohn A. Lanier is Named to Georgia Trend's 40 Under 40 List
John A. Lanier has been named to Georgia Trend's annual 40 Under 40 List.
Read MoreAn Amazing Agroforestry Story: The Inga Model in Central America
In 2019 the Foundation's NextGen Committee Awarded a $100,000 grant to Inga Foundation for their work in Honduras. Inga Foundation's Mike Hands recently presented a webinar on the Life Saves the Planet Lecture Series with Rattan Lal of Ohio State University and Mike also had a paper published in the Royal Society Open Science Journal.
Read MoreRay C. Anderson Foundation's NextGen Committee Awards $100,000 Grant to Cultural Survival
The NextGen Committee of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Cultural Survival to support grassroots Indigenous solutions to climate change.
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