Sustainable Development

Negotiation and decision-making expert Max Bazerman explores how we can make more ethical choices by aspiring to be better, not perfect.

This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book’s 40 essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. This book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.

Success will fall right into place...as soon as you tidy up! It’s time to take back your life, and the first step is getting organized. Ask any CEO, entrepreneur, or eminent artist, and they’ll assure you that the key to making it big begins with the small stuff. An attention to detail will make all the difference in both your personal and professional life. Decluttering is an often-overlooked “chore", but one must nix the trivial, endeavoring to truly triumph. Change is one click away.

As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you’re under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, and still turn a profit.

El libro, publicado en español, utiliza un lenguaje fácil y comprensible con el fin de crear mayor conciencia sobre el compromiso, responsabilidad y rol de cada actor en la sociedad para alcanzar la sostenibilidad. Las empresas y familias que deseen contribuir al desarrollo sostenible tendrán el conocimiento sobre cómo y dónde empezar. Aunque el libro fue escrito originalmente para el público de la República Dominicana su contenido es, sin duda, aplicable a otros lugares, toda vez que nuestra necesidad de un entorno más sostenible es global y no tiene límites geográficos.

Former Marin County community organizer and promoter of “systems thinking” shares her first-person voice following on insights gathered over five years of local experience. This book is full of specific datapoints, examples, and suggestions for making the world a better place, beginning with Marin County residents learning more about the very real challenges within their own community.

We are at a turning point in the history of civilization. Anyone watching the news can understand why. Our generation faces the challenges of global warming, misogyny, racism, systemic poverty, oligarchy, and more. Some believe that this will lead to a kind of fascist, environmentally ruined dystopia. Robertson Work, who has spent decades working in poverty-stricken villages and developing countries, does not believe all hope is lost.

In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key "development bargain," whereby a country's elites shift from protecting their own positions to gambling on a growth-based future.

The must-have friendly green bible of accessible eco-tips for families. As a parent, getting out of the house with everyone wearing shoes (on a good day) can feel like you’re winning, so adding ‘being green’ to the never-ending to-do list might feel like the thing to bring all your spinning plates crashing to the ground. If that’s the case, then this is the book for you. No preaching. No judgement. No guilt.

With the help of practical examples, 60 innovative ideas, and two well researched case studies, Naomi Mc Laughlan has taken great effort to cover this huge field of environmental and society friendly business strategy approach. Furthermore, you will learn about the value chain and your customer's journey, and how you can adapt your business to reduce any form of waste in the chapter on lean management.

Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues at YES! Magazine have been exploring the meaning of real happiness for eighteen years. In this much-needed volume, they marshal fascinating research, in-depth essays, and compelling personal stories that lead to a life-altering conclusion: what makes us truly happy are the depth of our relationships, the quality of our communities, the contribution we make through the work we do, and the renewal we receive from a thriving natural world.

Tips, tools, advice, and activities for raising eco-friendly kids while nurturing compassion, resilience, and community engagement.

It's easy for scale-ups, giddy from early startup success, to get ahead of themselves and stumble. It's even easier to be slowed down by the many forces of resistance working against them: drag, inertia, friction, and waste. Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum means, private equity operators Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez provide listeners with a powerful framework of universally applicable principles that enable any company to effectively accelerate its ability to scale and grow.

This isn't just another self-help theory: Dynamic Drive is your practical guide to sculpting resilience and unlocking your true potential. Dive into the seven keys presented within this audiobook, each unlocking a new dimension of your potential, empowering you to forge a stronger mindset, harness more energy, embrace greater discipline, expand your curiosity, fortify resilience, foster increased connection, and exude greater confidence.

The book is a firsthand account of Dr. Hannah Jaicks’ journey through western Montana's ranching landscapes to showcase the stories of ranchers and affiliated groups who are pioneering strategies for reducing conflicts with wildlife, while also stewarding the landscape.

A sane and organized life is about a lot more than just organizing your home. It's about making better use of each moment from when you wake up to when you go to bed. It's about knowing what you need to do next and having the discipline to follow through effortlessly. When you organize your life, the rewards go beyond clean shelves and easy-to-spot files. A well-organized life is logical and productive and gives us more time to do what we really want.

In "The Sustainable Brain," author and success coach Aree Bly takes you on a transformative journey to reclaim your life and create a thriving future for yourself. You'll discover a framework to help analytical minds create sustainability using the art of authenticity, respect for continuous motion, and harnessing our brain's inherent superpowers.

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history. What is sustainability? Is it always about the environment? What science do we need to fully grasp what it requires? What does sustainability mean for business? How can governments plan for a sustainable future?

Finally, an audiobook that gives you applicable, implementable techniques for how to boost motivation in all areas of your life - as well as the lives of others. You know "what" you should do in order to motivate yourself and others. So why don’t you do it? No one has ever systemized the "how" to what you already know you should do. This audiobook does! In order to motivate the unmotivated - whether that’s ourselves, others, or both - we need to strengthen the synapse between actions and outcomes.

In Honor Thy Label, Dr. Bronner’s head of Special Operations, Gero Leson, reveals the inside story of how a little-known family-run soap company grew from countercultural roots to create a revolutionary fair trade and organic supply chain from the ground up - and rode the waves of popular demand without losing sight of the process. Through stories of harrowing setbacks and hard-won triumphs in projects that spanned the globe, in Sri Lanka, Ghana, India, and beyond, Leson demystifies the process of building and scaling ethical production.