Shaw Names Vice President of Sustainability

Dalton, GA, Feb. 18, 2011 -- Shaw Industries has named Paul Murray vice president of sustainability and environmental affairs.

Murray has spent the past 22 years with Herman Miller, most recently as environmental health and safety and and sustainable business practices leader.

Murray is credited with creating the Environmental Quality Action Team, which helped Herman Miller to reduce waste, use more sustainable products, and increase renewable energy.

Through that team and other efforts, Herman Miller achieved high-profile recognition for its environmental efforts, including a Presidential citation and national recognition as an environmentally progressive company.

Named Herman Miller’s director of environmental safety and sustainability in 2006, Murray was also recognized that year in an article for Vanity Fair’s “Green” issue entitled: “The Re-Inventors: Green Architects and Designers.”

In 2002 he co-founded the Sustainable Research Group, an environmental consulting service created to help other companies implement green initiatives similar to Herman Miller’s.

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