[PDF] Go Green Get Lean eBook

Author : Kate Geagan
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1605296635

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Over the past 20 years America has been steadily marching toward a diet that is more drenched in fossil fuel than any key nutrient. Experts estimate that it now takes roughly 7 to 10 calories of fossil fuel energy to bring one calorie of food energy to the American plate. Not only have our eating habits turned us into an increasingly overweight society, but the alarming truth is that our food choices are having as much of an impact on the planet as the cars we drive. Go Green Get Lean is the perfect eating plan for our time. Revealing easy-to-follow steps anyone can take to eat for a healthy body and planet—and drop up to 9 pounds in the first 2 weeks—Kate Geagan helps readers see the questionable value of "convenience" foods, and explains why going green doesn't require a drastic vegan overhaul. Because there are many nutritional benefits to be drawn from some non-plant-based food choices, she points readers to the best selections, including occasional splurges they can enjoy in good conscience. In learning to make truly LEAN choices, Kate offers the following straightforward formula: Before eating food, ask yourself: Local or global? What was the Energy used to bring it to my plate? (Include processing, packaging, transportation, and temperature of food.) Animal or plant? (Plant foods are greener.) Is this Necessary? (Is this food critical to my health and weight goals?) This trailblazing work—the first to offer a specific weight-loss plan along with the promise of a lowered carbon footprint—makes it possible for readers to help the environment and their waistlines at the same time.

Author : Dan Olsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118961021

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The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing. If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to: Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product process and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource.

Author : Ben Hartman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1603586997

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At Clay Bottom Farm, author Ben Hartman and staff practice kaizen, or continuous improvement, cutting out more waste--of time, labor, space, money, and more--every year and aligning their organic production more tightly with customer demand. Applied alongside other lean principles originally developed by the Japanese auto industry, the end result has been increased profits and less work. In this field-guide companion to his award-winning first book, The Lean Farm, Hartman shows market vegetable growers in even more detail how Clay Bottom Farm implements lean thinking in every area of their work, including using kanbans, or replacement signals, to maximize land use; germination chambers to reduce defect waste; and right-sized machinery to save money and labor and increase efficiency. From finding land and assessing infrastructure needs to selling perfect produce at the farmers market, The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables digs deeper into specific, tested methods for waste-free farming that not only help farmers become more successful but make the work more enjoyable. These methods include: Using Japanese paper pot transplanters Building your own germinating chambers Leaning up your greenhouse Making and applying simple composts Using lean techniques for pest and weed control Creating Heijunka, or load-leveling calendars for efficient planning Farming is not static, and improvement requires constant change. The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables offers strategies for farmers to stay flexible and profitable even in the face of changing weather and markets. Much more than a simple exercise in cost-cutting, lean farming is about growing better, not cheaper, food--the food your customers want.

Author : Pamela Gordon
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1605094072

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When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive-quite the contrary. She shows how "green" business practices enable organizations to save millions, even billions of dollars each year. Lean and Gree chronicles over one hundred examples of how people in twenty different organizations around the world-from clerks, farmers, and city employees to chemists and executives-have strengthened environmental practices and the balance sheet. She details waste-saving, profit-building acts as basic as Linda Gee at LSI Logic digging out usable pre-worn shoe covers to wear in the clean room, and as broad as the city of Santa Monica paving residential streets with white top to reduce urban heat and increase surface longevity. Drawing on her background as a leading business consultant, Gordon shows readers precisely how to sell their environmental ideas to management. She describes how to make the case in no-nonsense business terms, set concrete goals that the new practices will achieve, measure the economic results of the new practices, and make sure the right people hear about the results so that environmental initiatives continue. Each chapter includes a "Making It Easy" list of action steps for implementing lean and green improvements in the workplace easily and immediately. Lean and Green will inspire employees and employers alike to explore creative ways to simultaneously save the planet and bolster the bottom line.

Author : Ben Hartman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1603585923

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A practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operation To many people today, using the words "factory" and "farm" in the same sentence is nothing short of sacrilege. In many cases, though, the same sound business practices apply whether you are producing cars or carrots. Author Ben Hartman and other young farmers are increasingly finding that incorporating the best new ideas from business into their farming can drastically cut their wastes and increase their profits, making their farms more environmentally and economically sustainable. By explaining the lean system for identifying and eliminating waste and introducing efficiency in every aspect of the farm operation, The Lean Farm makes the case that small-scale farming can be an attractive career option for young people who are interested in growing food for their community. Working smarter, not harder, also prevents the kind of burnout that start-up farmers often encounter in the face of long, hard, backbreaking labor. Lean principles grew out of the Japanese automotive industry, but they are now being followed on progressive farms around the world. Using examples from his own family's one-acre community-supported farm in Indiana, Hartman clearly instructs other small farmers in how to incorporate lean practices in each step of their production chain, from starting a farm and harvesting crops to training employees and selling goods. While the intended audience for this book is small-scale farmers who are part of the growing local food movement, Hartman's prescriptions for high-value, low-cost production apply to farms and businesses of almost any size or scale that hope to harness the power of lean in their production processes.

Author : Ash Maurya
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101980524

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"Scaling Lean offers an invaluable blueprint for modeling startup success. You'll learn the essential metrics that measure the output of a working business model, give you the pulse of your company, communicate its health to investors, and enable you to make precise interventions when things go wrong, "--Amazon.com.

Author : Kimberly Snyder
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0373892640

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Snyder, author of the bestselling "The Beauty Detox Solution" and one of Hollywood's top celebrity nutritionists and beauty experts, shares the top 50 beauty foods that will make readers more beautiful from the inside out.

Author : Michael Matthews
Publisher : Oculus Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1938895215

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If you want to know how to build muscle and burn fat by eating delicious vegetarian and vegan meals that are easy to cook and easy on your wallet, then you want to read this book. Let me ask you a few questions. Do you worry that building muscle or losing fat is too hard as a vegetarian or vegan? Are you not sure of how to prepare food that is not only delicious and healthy but also effective in helping you build muscle and lose fat? Are you afraid that cooking nutritious, restaurant-quality meals is too time-consuming and expensive? Do you think that following a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle means having to force down the same boring, bland food every day? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, don’t worry—you’re not alone. And this book is the answer. With it, you can cook fast, healthy, and tasty vegetarian and vegan meals every day (and on a reasonable budget) that will help you build muscle or lose weight, regardless of your current skills. In this book, you’re also going to learn how to eat right without having to obsess over every calorie. These 9 scientifically proven rules for eating are the foundation of every great physique and can be , and they have nothing to do with following weird diets or depriving yourself of everything that tastes good. And the recipes themselves? In this book you’ll find 100 healthy, flavorful recipes specifically designed for vegetarians and vegans that want to build muscle or lose fat. Regardless of your fitness goals, this book has got you covered. Here’s a “sneak peek” of the recipes you’ll find inside: 20 fast, delicious breakfast recipes (13 vegetarian and 7 vegan), including Berry Cheesecake Muffins, Red Pepper & Goat Cheese Frittata, Tempeh Hash, PB&J Oatmeal, Tex-Mex Tofu Breakfast Tacos, Healthy French Toast, and more. 20 mouthwatering entrees (10 vegan and 10 vegetarian), including Raw Almond Flaxseed Burgers, Greek Pasta Salad, Eggplant Parmesan, Seven Layer Bean Pie, Tofu Puttanesca, High Protein Mac & Cheese, and more. 20 savory side dishes (18 vegan and 2 vegetarian), including Carrot Fries, Cranberry Apricot Squash, Quinoa & Smoked Tofu Salad, Sherry-Asiago Cream Brussels Sprouts, Three Bean Salad, Greek Potatoes, and more. 20 awesome snack recipes (5 vegetarian and 15 vegan), including Maple Pumpkin Protein Bars, Protein Parfait, Blueberry Banana Oat Cakes, Chocolate Black Bean Energy Bars, Baked Kale Chips, No-Bake Almond Protein Bars, Homemade Applesauce, and more. 10 hearty, healthy protein shake recipes (8 vegetarian and 2 vegan), including Double Chocolate Protein Smoothie, Pumpkin Delight, Cherry Vanilla Protein Smoothie, Blueberry Flax Smoothie, and more. 10 delectable desserts (6 vegetarian and 4 vegan), including Banana Caramel Bread Pudding, No-Bake Vanilla Cake, Protein Peach Surprise, Blackberry Parfait, and more. SPECIAL BONUS FOR READERS With this book, you’ll also get a free spreadsheet that lists every recipe in the book along with their calories, protein, carbs, and fats! Chances are you’re going to want to use the recipes to plan out your daily meals, and this spreadsheet makes it a simple matter of copy and pasting! Scroll up and click the “Buy” button now and learn how to cook nutritious, delicious vegetarian and vegan meals that make building muscle and burning fat easy and enjoyable!

Author : Robert Palevich
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0132837617

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This title provides comprehensive new best practices for building sustainable, 'green and lean' supply chains, from one of the field's most respected experts.

Author : Sheryl Sandberg
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385349955

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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto" (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential. In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg, COO of Meta (previously called Facebook) from 2008-2022, provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.