Bestsellers
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Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
- The American West and Its Disappearing Water
- De: Marc Reisner
- Narrado por: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
- Duración: 27 h y 58 m
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The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....
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Too much mouth noise in narration
- De AES en 07-23-19
De: Marc Reisner
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- De: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....
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A disappointment
- De Ronald en 09-24-16
De: Gretchen Bakke
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- De: Bill Gates
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....
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Be curious, not furious
- De Axel Merk en 02-20-21
De: Bill Gates
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Where the Water Goes
- Life and Death Along the Colorado River
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland....
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Water issues are never about only water.
- De Bonny en 08-20-17
De: David Owen
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: Aún no se conoce
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Speed & Scale
- An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
- De: John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram
- Narrado por: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem....
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Most Important and Worst Audiobook ever!
- De Amazon Customer en 12-17-21
De: John Doerr, y otros
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Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
- The American West and Its Disappearing Water
- De: Marc Reisner
- Narrado por: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
- Duración: 27 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....
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Too much mouth noise in narration
- De AES en 07-23-19
De: Marc Reisner
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The Grid
- The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
- De: Gretchen Bakke
- Narrado por: Emily Caudwell
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....
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A disappointment
- De Ronald en 09-24-16
De: Gretchen Bakke
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- De: Bill Gates
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions....
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Be curious, not furious
- De Axel Merk en 02-20-21
De: Bill Gates
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Where the Water Goes
- Life and Death Along the Colorado River
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland....
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Water issues are never about only water.
- De Bonny en 08-20-17
De: David Owen
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: Aún no se conoce
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Speed & Scale
- An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
- De: John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram
- Narrado por: John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem....
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Most Important and Worst Audiobook ever!
- De Amazon Customer en 12-17-21
De: John Doerr, y otros
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Wasteland
- The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
- De: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
- Narrado por: Chris Harper
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind....
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Great breadth of coverage
- De Timpboy en 05-02-24
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Water 4.0
- The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
- De: David Sedlak
- Narrado por: Gary Roelofs
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges....
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Horrible narration, good info
- De Danielle V. Dolan en 10-06-20
De: David Sedlak
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Full Body Burden
- Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
- De: Kristen Iversen
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Kristen Iversen
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America"....
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A story that no one else wanted to tell.
- De Carol en 01-28-13
De: Kristen Iversen
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Running Out
- In Search of Water on the High Plains
- De: Lucas Bessire
- Narrado por: John Chancer
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland....
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Both informative and beautiful.
- De Deb en 05-09-23
De: Lucas Bessire
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Troubled Water
- What's Wrong with What We Drink
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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New York Times best-selling author Seth Siegel tells how contaminants got in our drinking water, what they’re doing to us, and what we must do to make our water safe....
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An important book on a critical issue
- De Alexander en 11-07-19
De: Seth M. Siegel
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Bold
- How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
- De: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Narrado por: Steven Kotler
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth....
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The Best Book for Exponential Entrepreneurs
- De Sean en 02-17-15
De: Peter H. Diamandis, y otros
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Fashionopolis
- The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
- De: Dana Thomas
- Narrado por: Dana Thomas
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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In Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling - even lab-grown materials....
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Very informative and optimistic
- De cannonwall en 01-05-20
De: Dana Thomas
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Unquenchable
- America's Water Crisis and What to do About it
- De: Robert Glennon
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals....
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A must read, second only to Cadillac Desert
- De matthew en 09-02-15
De: Robert Glennon
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The Poisoned City
- Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
- De: Anna Clark
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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In Anna Clark's full account of this American tragedy, The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city....
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Very Informative
- De Adrianna Kurkowski en 08-06-18
De: Anna Clark
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Prepper's Ultimate Survival Series
- Off-Grid Self-Sufficiency Collection: A Comprehensive Guide to Water Purification, Survival Strategies, and Self-Sufficient Practices for Preppers
- De: Johnathan Nash
- Narrado por: Bill Ayers
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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In an era where unpredictability is the only certainty, these essential guides are combined for those determined to be prepared for anything. This collection is not just about survival; it's about thriving in the face of the unknown.
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it's your ticket to peace of mind
- De joyclubs en 05-12-24
De: Johnathan Nash
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Prepper’s Water Purification Survival Bible
- How to Find, Harvest, Filter, Purify, and Store Water Off the Grid
- De: Johnathan Nash
- Narrado por: Bill Ayers
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
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Water is the most fundamental of survival needs. While many communities around the world are used to struggling with water shortages, many of us have no clue what we would do in this sort of situation....
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Comprehensive and Practical
- De Bobby Jane en 09-22-23
De: Johnathan Nash
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Harvesting Rainwater: A Sustainable Guide to Collecting, Storing, and Utilizing Nature’s Gift for Water Conservation and Self-Sufficiency
- Living by Nature
- De: Dion Rosser
- Narrado por: Ivan Busenius
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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Ever gazed at the sky during a downpour and dreamed of turning those raindrops into a treasure trove, more than just soggy shoes? What if you could make rain your ally, helping you dodge hefty water bills while transforming your garden into the neighborhood's crown jewel?
De: Dion Rosser
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Harvesting H2o: A prepper's guide to the collection, treatment, and storage of drinking water while living off the grid.
- De: Nicholas Hyde
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 1 h y 42 m
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How to find, purify, filter, and store clean drinking water is of primary importance to preppers and off-grid homesteaders. Water is the element ...
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Very thorough with no fluff
- De Brad en 04-05-24
De: Nicholas Hyde
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Get Abundance
- Why Your Future Is Brighter Than You Think
- De: Peter Diamandis
- Narrado por: Peter Diamandis
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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How would you like to be the center of a massive outpouring of wealth, innovation, success, and prosperity....
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Some powerful and some well worn ideas
- De Nigel en 05-12-15
De: Peter Diamandis
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Inconspicuous Consumption
- The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
- De: Tatiana Schlossberg
- Narrado por: Tatiana Schlossberg
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry, climate change is all around us, all the time, lurking everywhere in our convenience-driven society, all without our realizing it....
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Great topic, but execution could be better
- De David D en 11-04-19
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Junkyard Planet
- Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
- De: Adam Minter
- Narrado por: William Elsman
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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Adam Minter - veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner - travels deep into a vast, often hidden, 500-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment....
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Very Interesting, Very Detailed
- De Danielle C. en 06-24-21
De: Adam Minter
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Power
- Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
- De: Richard Heinberg
- Narrado por: David Skulski
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: Tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources - most significantly, fossil fuels....
De: Richard Heinberg
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Holding Back the River
- The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways
- De: Tyler J. Kelley
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America’s great rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water....
De: Tyler J. Kelley
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Burn
- Using Fire to Cool the Earth
- De: Albert Bates, Kathleen Draper
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Burn looks beyond renewable biomass or carbon capture energy systems to offer a bigger and bolder vision for the next phase of human progress, moving carbon from wasted sources into soils and agricultural systems to rebalance the carbon, nitrogen, and related cycles....
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"Cooling the Earth" is just the beginning
- De Robert en 07-03-19
De: Albert Bates, y otros
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Unraveled
- The Life and Death of a Garment
- De: Maxine Bedat
- Narrado por: Maxine Bedat
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth - and death - of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet....
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A fascinating look at the modern textile industry
- De Candice en 06-09-21
De: Maxine Bedat
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Water in Plain Sight
- Hope for a Thirsty World
- De: Judith D. Schwartz
- Narrado por: Tia Rider
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow....
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Crucial solutions
- De Shane Emanuelle en 07-25-19
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Water to the Angels
- William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles....
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Water challenges never end
- De John Matel en 04-10-15
De: Les Standiford
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Secondhand
- Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
- De: Adam Minter
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods markets in Canada, Mexico, and beyond....
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Minimalism vs. business opportunity?
- De buyer en 02-24-20
De: Adam Minter
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Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- De: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities....
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More water politics story than water technology
- De normal person en 04-12-21
De: Seth M. Siegel