Sustainable Development

Best-selling author and wellness guide Grace Danielle Meek leverages her two decades of holistic business experience and marketing expertise to help entrepreneurs to get their holistic healing business started with inspiration and ease.

Every day, a new silver bullet comes out, promising to grow your business, increase your profit margins, and make your life as a business owner easier. Unfortunately, most of them don't work, wasting your time and money. Plus, they take your attention away from other more worthwhile opportunities. The ones that do work for others just never seem to work for you. Blanket prescriptions are like that - never quite hitting the mark for all but the few with the exact symptoms.

Many businesses are in the dark about how to actually do better for the planet and the people in their company and their supply chain while also growing their margin. Some believe it can't be done. But it can. Maisie Ganzler has done it, and now she's going to show you how to build sustainability into your business, too. Her five big lessons come from three decades of successes and failures leading a $1.7 billion corporation toward a more sustainable future.

For business owners and listeners interested in creating a business that serves its owners, "Sustainable: A Fable About Creating a Personally and Economically Sustainable Business" offers much more than just a good listen. It’s a guidebook filled with wisdom and practical solutions for building a business that can thrive well into the future. And it's not another how-to book; there's a great story that you can use to learn from the Aardvark family.

In the heart of every entrepreneur lies this paradox of success: The strengths that got you to initial success—such as “shooting from the hip,” closing all the deals, and making all the decisions—will stunt your company’s future growth. That’s the essence of Founder’s Syndrome. It causes you to cling to excessive control in the business for too long. It stifles collaboration, hinders innovation, and undercuts financial performance.

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.

Imagine your job was to travel the world, then report back on how everyone else should do it. That’s what happened to Daniel Houghton when, fresh out of Western Kentucky University, he took the helm of legendary travel publisher Lonely Planet, then owned by a billionaire who had taken a shine to his work. Suddenly, he was not only jetting off to parts unknown but closing business deals in foreign languages and scrambling to learn 50 different sets of table manners.

Informative, actionable, and insightful, Profitable and Sustainable Real Estate Investing is your step-by-step guide to transforming an ordinary real estate investing business into an exceptionally sustainable, money-saving, and profit-maximizing endeavor.

Creativity is the magic sauce that generates ideas to solve problems. We all have it. Creative IQ: Opening the Door to Creativity that Inspires Sustainable Results is a practical guide to accessing your ingenuity with confidence and purpose, free from expectations, judgments, and an annoying inner critic. Renee Russo Martinez teaches you to embrace your out-of-the-box ideas and how to launch your creative problem solving skills to new levels. You will learn about creativity as a process, mindfulness as a way to tap into the process, and the actions needed to become more innovative.

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

'Grass Root Words' is a Naturalist periodical journal for essays, poems, and short-stories on inspirational themes like history, education, evolution, environmentalism, civil rights, philosophy, arts, advances in technology, and discoveries in science. Contributing authors include all ages; alive or dead; famous or infamous. This 'SCOD-zine' is like a grass-roots 'Leaves of Grass', except anyone can be in it, not just Walt Whitman.

Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility (CSR) - incorporating corporate (social) responsibility, sustainable development, business ethics, corporate citizenship, business & society and corporate governance - has become a widely taught subject in business schools and practiced in companies around the world. For the first time, there is a comprehensive e-textbook that introduces students and practitioners to CSR theory and practice, looking at the past, present and future. The text begins with definitions and drivers of CSR, including the all-important "business case", then traces the ...

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.

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.

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.

Profit or Wealth? gives business owners the easiest ways to avoid business failure. By following the 10 rules of profit and 10 rules of wealth explained within Profit or Wealth?, business owners can live the life of their dreams. Many business owners just worry about profits and ignore business wealth-building, but a business needs both. Without building wealth, the business can still go bankrupt.

Listen to this book to gain secret keys to unlock a whole new world! Discover practical survival advice for those of us who didn’t receive empowerment from our own parents, for those with children already who want to be a better parent to train and sustain conscious future generations, as well as those of us working to raise consciousness and survive planet Earth, despite our own shortcomings, especially during these unsettling dynamic global shifts.

We have witnessed a disruptive new world history during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic declaration and its aftermath. Those surreptitious forces we have long suspected of having plans to dominate our lives and target us for exploitation toward their selfish profiteering have become more prominent. The uber-rich billionaire class has used this time to extend their grip over national economies and has made more profits at the fastest rate ever while many middle-class families are being crushed. This book, FORGED BY FIRE, aims to articulate an alternative futurist pathway leading to ...

You have power over your emotions, but it’s limited, so you need to understand it. Here is a simple explanation of the chemicals that make us feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. You’ll find out what turns them on in animals and how you manage them with the animal part of your brain. Then, you’ll learn to rewire your happy chemicals by feeding your brain new inputs in a new way. We’ll do the same for the unhappy chemical, cortisol, too.