Seeing Green: How to Save the Planet and Profit from Sustainability

by Angel Lance

Overview

Are you looking for a new approach to ESG, environmental consciousness, and going green for business and industry leaders? Seeing Green: How to Save the Planet and Profit from Sustainability combines the pursuit of profit and the urgent need to protect our planet. In this entertaining, educational, and inspirational book, visionary CEO, Angel Lance shares her story and unconventional approach to making homes, businesses, and industries more green for profit and the environment.

In Seeing Green, Lance reveals how she used her over twenty years of management consulting experience to transform her business to be ESG compliant and environmentally conscious, start nonprofit foundations to support her passion for environmental action, transform a farm from traditional to regenerative, and unite utilities in decarbonization efforts. Lance has earned a reputation as an ESG thought-leader who celebrates the power of creativity and innovation to find win-win solutions for both business success and environmental sustainability.

Seeing Green offers:
* Practical actions for going green at home, in the office, or across an industry that you can take right now
* Triple-win solutions that explain how you can enjoy financial success, improve your quality of life, and contribute to the greater good through environmental practices
* Examples from Lance’s personal experience told in Lance’s uniquely accessible and witty tone

Join Lance on her captivating journey as she introduces a fresh approach to ESG, environmental consciousness, and going green that challenges the notion that environmental sustainability and profitability are mutually exclusive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798887504414
Publisher:	Forbes Books
Publication date:	10/17/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,981
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

ANGEL LANCE is the founder and CEO of Motive Power, Inc. and 10/6 Professional Service, two environmentally conscious management consulting firms focused on delivering capital projects and advising utility companies. Lance pioneered ESG initiatives at her companies, including implementing onsite gardens and composting programs. She is also the founder of The Gulch Foundation, a nonprofit organization that drives tangible environmental action through projects like the regenerative Rainmaker Farm. Additionally, Lance created the National Public Utilities Council (NPUC), which unites utilities nationwide to collaborate on decarbonization efforts. The NPUC publishes research to advance utilities’ transition to clean energy. Lance is the mother of two children and splits her time between San Francisco and her Oklahoma farm.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Part 1
The Big Footprint
Chapter 1
How ’Bout This Weather
Chapter 2
You Get The Cake And You Get To Eat It Too
Chapter 3
Separation Anxiety: Hollywood And The Heartland
Chapter 4
Global Is Local
Chapter 5
A Low Carb(On) Diet

Part 2
Triple Win
Chapter 6
Green Is Green
Chapter 7
Just Do It
Chapter 8
Broad Reach
Chapter 9
Connection
Conclusion
Bringing Sexy Back

Get In Touch
Acknowledgments
About The Author

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Lance’s resolve to improve our environment transcends the page and inspires readers to act."
— BookLife by Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

11/06/2023

“We need to change the conversation around environmentalism to one that will work for humanity,” writes Lance in her easy-to-follow guide to understanding the impending climate disaster. Lance provides practiced techniques to combat the growing concern without giving up life’s many pleasures and indulgences. Her tenacious approach inspires readers to adapt her practical three tier guide which divides action to three groups of people: the individuals, the CEOs, and the “big cheese world changer” that includes wealthy investors, government leaders, and business tycoons. Using examples from her own life, Lance’s resolve to improve our environment transcends the page and inspires readers to act.

Lance’s guilt-free approach to climate preservation recognizes people’s desire for material items and offers solutions to have a “good time in the world without destroying it.” She draws on her experience as a business owner and entrepreneur to encourage companies to think of eco-friendly changes through an “environmental lens,” which she presents as a “triple win” that “addresses issues around climate change” while also buoying profits and a company’s position “in the emerging economy.” She emphasizes cooperative problem solving by establishing common ground communication with potential partners. For those outside the business world, Lance encourages a variety of manageable changes: starting a community garden, buying local, starting outreach programs.

Sprinkled into the easy-to-understand science and informative data are witty asides that keep the mood light and fun, such as Lance’s favorite energy ball recipe and silly manure jokes. A variety of QR codes provide readers with further research opportunities, although she purposefully leaves the reader to dig into their self-initiative and investigate some resources on their own. While occasionally Lance’s stories and green initiatives may feel a bit out-of-reach to the average individual, her zeal is inspiring as she urges readers of all tiers to “quit-whining-and-roll-up-your-sleeves, get-educated, make-a-plan, and dig-in.” Those looking for practical solutions to the growing climate disaster will find a variety of solutions in this engaging and rousing guide.

Takeaway: Urgent but upbeat guide to saving our planet (and businesses) from climate change.

Comparable Titles: Amir Hegazi’s How Business Can Fight Climate Change, Jen Gale’s The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide.

Production grades Cover: A- Design and typography: A Illustrations: B+ Editing: A Marketing copy: A-

BookLife Reviews

"Lance’s resolve to improve our environment transcends the page and inspires readers to act."
— BookLife by Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher