Happy Earth Day! This Friday, April 22, pause and appreciate this spinning planet. It’s a beautiful ride, isn’t it?

Thank the Mother Earth leaders across the industry are taking steps to promote sustainable products and combat climate change. Women, especially, know how to challenge traditional approaches. Journalist Diana Kapp shares the stories of women working to save the earth through all kinds of innovative approaches in her new book, “Girls Who Green the World: Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save Our Planet.”

Kapp writes for and about empowered girls, girls who expect to be leaders, founders and inventors. This book takes it a step further; it advises girls that are striving to be CEOs and world leaders to consider solving the biggest challenge of our lifetime, too — because you can do both at the same time. In fact, the book spotlights 34 women doing just that.

These women are turning mushrooms into leather, CO2 into chicken, trashed veggies into pizza and pickles, and converting the earth’s heat into geothermal energy. One closed 354 coal plants; another is extending the life of avocados to keep them out landfills.

Furthermore, many of the women featured are in the retail industry! UpCircle Beauty, Beautycounter, PulpChips, Blueland, Apple and more retail brands are spotlighted for their great work when it comes to sustainability.

As a leader, you have the power to promote positive change, regardless of where you work. With that in mind, how will you celebrate this Earth Day?